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The Eastern Church first celebrated a Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy and All Pure Mother of God on 9 December, perhaps as early as the 5th century in Syria.The original title of the feast focused more specifically on Saint Anne, being termed Sylepsis tes hagias kai theoprometoros Annas ("conception of Saint Anne, the ancestress of God"). [5]
Anne, the mother of Mary, first appears in the 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of James.The author of the gospel borrowed from Greek tales of the childhood of heroes. For Jesus' grandmother the author drew on the more benign biblical story of Hannah—hence Anna—who conceived Samuel in her old age, thus reprising the miraculous birth of Jesus with a merely remarkable one for his mother. [14]
La Inmaculada Purisima Concepcion de Maria by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Prado, Spain. By pontifical decree, the Immaculate Conception alone is the universal and national patroness of Spain, by virtue of a papal mandate issued by Pope Clement XIII on 8 November 1760, while James the Greater remains, the same pope declared, the primary patron ...
The Intramuros Grand Marian Procession commonly known as IGMP is an annual religious procession that takes place in honor of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.This event takes place every First Sunday of December at the Plaza de Roma at the facade of the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila.
In the same detail of the Virgin, one can make out a crescent moon which contributes to Mary's unspoiled birth, additionally acting as a cultural insight into Spanish Catholicism. During the Spanish Renaissance, the Virgin Mary had a widespread cult which attributed the crescent moon to the divine figure. [8]
Inmaculada Concepción is the Immaculate Conception in Spanish language. The name may make reference to several religious buildings The name may make reference to several religious buildings Academia de la Inmaculada Concepción in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
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The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables or The Immaculate Conception of Soult (original titles La Inmaculada Concepción de los Venerables or La Inmaculada Concepción de Soult) is an oil painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. [1] It was painted c. 1678 and measures 274 cm × 190 cm (108 in × 75 in). [1]