 The Feast of the Annunciation was celebrated as early as the fourth or fifth century.The first certain mentions of the feast are in a canon, of the Council of Toledo in 656, where it was described as celebrated throughout the Church, and in another of the Council of Constantinople "in Trullo" in 692, which forbade the celebration of any festivals during Lent, excepting the Lord's Day (Sunday) and the Feast of the Annunciation.A Synod of Worcester, England in 1240 forbade all servile work on the feast.