What date to place the patronal feast day of St. Mary’s Church?

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Your hunch "that it is the Feast of the Assumption" appears correct, at least according to

  • Rev. W. J. Wiseman, “The Titular Feast,” The Pastor 3, no. 5 (March 1885): 129–36.

In the § "Practical Directions" (p. 131), he writes:

  1. Blessed Virgin is a general title. […]
    (a) If the titulus is simply B. M. V., the titular feast is to be celebrated on the feast of the Assumption, where everything remains as now in the Ordo.

That's interesting it's the Assumption and not the Immaculate Conception (whose dogma Pius IX defined 31 years prior to this article, in Ineffabilis Deus). Of course the feast of the Assumption was celebrated even before Pius XII defined the dogma in Munificentissimus Deus in 1950, too. They're both great (1st class) feasts.

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There are several Marian feasts, so it's hard to know.

Marian feasts:

  • Feb. 2: Purification
  • Feb. 11: Apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes
  • Mar. 25: Annunciation
  • May 13: Our Lady of Fatima
  • May 31: Visitation of the B.V.M.
  • July 16: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
  • Aug. 5: Mary of the Snows
  • Aug. 15: Assumption of the B.V.M.
  • Aug. 22: Immaculate Heart of Mary / Queenship of Mary
  • Sep. 8: Mary's Nativity (birthday)
  • Sep. 12: Holy Name of Mary
  • Sep. 15: Seven Sorrows of Mary
  • Oct. 7: Holy Rosary
  • Nov. 21: Presentation of Mary in the Temple
  • Dec. 8: Immaculate Conception
  • Dec. 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe

(The dates are from the traditional calendar; you can see if they've been changed in the Novus Ordo calendar.)

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