The Eve of the Circumcision and Name of Jesus is observed annually on December 31, marking the final day of the calendar year and the vigil of the Feast of the Circumcision and Name of Jesus (which falls on January 1). In Christian tradition, particularly within liturgical and historic Protestant calendars, this day commemorates the biblical account of Jesus undergoing the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after His birth, in accordance with Jewish law, at which time He was officially given the name Jesus—meaning "the Lord saves"—as proclaimed by the angel Gabriel