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  Visitation may refer to:

In law:

  • In United States Law, the term for the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children, elsewhere known as Contact (law)
    Contact (law)

    In family law, contact is one of the general terms which denotes the level of contact a parent or other significant person in a child's life can have with that child....


  • An official visit, usually for purposes of inspection, and the record of that visit. Both in English and Spanish (colonial) history.


In religion:

  • The Visitation, a Christian
    Christian

    A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
     liturgical feast day (31 May or 2 July) commemorating the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    Blessed Virgin Mary

    The Blessed Virgin Mary, sometimes shortened to The Blessed Virgin or The Virgin Mary, is a traditional title used by most Christians and most specifically used by liturgical Christians such as Roman Catholics, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholics, and some others to describe Mary, mother of Jesus, the mother of...
     to St. Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke
    Gospel of Luke

    The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
     1:39-56.


  • Tablet of Visitation
    Tablet of Visitation

    Tablets of Visitation refers to specific Prayer in the Bah?'? Faith used in the Bah?'? Faith while visiting the shrines of its founders or martyrs....
     refers to specific prayers used in Islam
    Islam

    Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
     and the Bahá'í Faith
    Bahá'í Faith

    The 'Bah?'? Faith' is a monotheism religion founded by Bah?'u'll?h in nineteenth-century Persian Empire#Persia and Europe , emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind....
     while visiting the shrines of its founders, saints or martyrs.


  • Canonical visitation
    Canonical Visitation

    A canonical visitation is the act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of his office visits persons or places with a view of maintaining faith and discipline, and of correcting abuses by the application of proper remedies....
     is an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under canon law
    Canon law

    Canon law is internal ecclesiastical law governing the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church churches, and the Anglicanism of churches....
    , such as an archbishop
    Archbishop

    In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion and others, this means that they lead a diocese of particular importance called an archdiocese, or in the Anglican Communion an Ecclesiastical Province, but this is not always the case....
    , bishop
    Bishop

    A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
    , or archdeacon
    Archdeacon

    A position of archdeacon is a senior position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and in some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop....
    .


  • a Funeral Visitation
    Funeral

    A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
    , in the United States and Canada, a funeral custom where a mourner visits the deceased person's family and views the body lying in the casket, either at a funeral home or church.


In history:

  • Heraldic visitations
    Heraldic visitation

    Heraldic Visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by King of Arms in England, Wales and Ireland in order to regulate and register the coat of arms of nobility and gentry and boroughs, and to record pedigrees....
     were made to establish the right of a person to bear arms, and are used today in genealogical research.


In popular culture:

  • The Visitation (book)
    The Visitation (book)

    The Visitation is a 1999 contemporary Christian novel by Frank Peretti. Taking place in the Index of fictional places of Antioch, located in eastern Washington, The Visitation is told in first-person narrative by the protagonist, a former Minister named Travis Jordan who struggles to reconcile his former pastoral life with that of...
     a 1999 contemporary Christian novel by Frank Peretti.


  • The Visitation (film)
    The Visitation (film)

    The Visitation is a 2006 film based on Frank Peretti's novel of the The Visitation . It was directed by Robby Henson. Martin Donovan, Edward Furlong, and Kelly Lynch starred in it....
     a 2006 film based upon the above book.


Other:

  • Supernatural Visitation
    Apparition

    An apparition is an act or instance of appearing, including:*a Vision such as a Marian apparition; or*certain ostensibly paranormal experiences such as ghost, doppelg?nger or bilocation; or...
    , an experience of presence or communication between the recently deceased and their spouse or progeny