Two Nativities: the Theotokos (left) and Jesus Christ (right) The icon of the feast is a more-or-less faithful imaging of the protoevangelium, with the composition echoing the Nativity of Our Lord ...

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the ... Spirit coming upon the Theotokos (detail) ...