Visitation may refer to:
Law
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Visitation (law)
In family law, contact, visitation and access are synonym terms that denotes the time that a child spends with the noncustodial parent, according to an agreed or court specified parenting schedule.Cambridge DictionaryVisitation/ref> The visitat ...
or contact, the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children
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Prison visitation rights, the rules and conditions under which prisoners may have visitors
Music
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''Visitation'' (Division Day album), 2009
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''Visitation'' (Sam Jones album), 1978
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''Visitation'' (Joe McPhee album), 1985
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''Visitation'' (Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell album), 1994
* "Visitation", an instrumental by Paul Chambers from ''
Chambers' Music'', 1956
Religion
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Visitation (Christianity)
In Christianity, the Visitation, also known as the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, refers to the visit of Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist, in the Gospel of Luke, . The episode is ...
, a liturgical feast day commemorating the visit of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth
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Visitation Order
The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (), abbreviated VSM and also known as the Visitandines, is a Catholic religious order of Pontifical Right for women. Members of the order are also known as the Salesian Sisters (not to be confused with th ...
of enclosed nuns
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Visitation Convent
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Visitation Monastery
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Visitation Church, Montreal
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Canonical visitation
In the Catholic Church, a canonical visitation is the act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of his office visits persons or places with a view to maintaining faith and discipline and of correcting abuses. A person delegated to car ...
, an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under Catholic canon law
* Visitation, a
funeral
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect th ...
custom where a mourner visits the deceased's family and views the body
Visual arts
Images of the
Visitation (Christianity)
In Christianity, the Visitation, also known as the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, refers to the visit of Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist, in the Gospel of Luke, . The episode is ...
, the visit of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth
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''Visitation'' (Albertinelli), 1503
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Visitation (Cariani)
''Visitation'' is an oil on canvas painting of the Visitation by Italian painter Giovanni Cariani, from ''c.'' 1524–1528. It is unrecorded before its appearance in the 1929 catalogue of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
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, c.1524-1528
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''Visitation'' (Dürer), a 1503 engraving by Albrecht Dürer
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''Visitation'' (Ghirlandaio), a 1491 painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio displayed in the Louvre
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''Visitation'' (El Greco), a 1608–1613 painting by El Greco
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''Visitation'' (Perugino), c.1472
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''Visitation'' (Raphael), a c. 1517 painting by Raphael
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''Visitation'' (Rubens), 1610s
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Visitation (Tintoretto, Bologna)
''Visitation'' or ''Visitation with Saint Joseph and Saint Zacharias'' is a c.1550 painting by Tintoretto, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Originally an altarpiece in the church of San Pietro Martire in Bologna, where it was first re ...
, c.1550
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Visitation (Tintoretto, Venice)
The ''Visitation'' is an oil on canvas painting of the Biblical Visitation by Tintoretto, from ''c.'' 1588. It is held in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, in Venice. The picture, first recorded in a 1588 receipt, hangs high over an arch on the m ...
, c.1588
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''Visitation'' (van der Weyden), c.1445
Other uses
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"Visitation" (''Stargate Universe''), an episode of ''Stargate Universe''
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Heraldic visitation
Heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms (or alternatively by heralds, or junior officers of arms, acting as the kings' deputies) throughout England, Wales and Ireland. Their purpose was to register and regulat ...
, a tour of inspection by a herald (or other officer-of-arms) to regulate and register coats of arms, and to record pedigrees; also, the written record of such a tour
See also
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The Visitation (disambiguation)
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Visit (disambiguation) Visit refer as go to see and spend time with socially.
Visit may refer to:
*State visit, a formal visit by a head of state to a foreign country
*Conjugal visit, in which a prisoner is permitted to spend several hours or days in private with a visit ...
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