The universal Church follows the emphases of scripture and tradition by celebrating feasts in honour and memory of Mary.

• Immaculate Conception: December 8
  
  
• Birth: September 8
  
  
• Presentation: November 21
  
  
• Annunciation: March 25
  
  
• Visitation: May 31
  
  
• Mother of God: January 1
  
  
• Sorrows: September 15
  
  
• Assumption: August 15
  
  
• Queenship: August 22

Other feasts are included in national and local calendars, for example, Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12) as Patron of the Americas.