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  2. Immaculate Conception - Wikipedia

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    The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. [1] It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. [ 2 ] Debated by medieval theologians, it was not defined as a dogma until 1854, [ 3 ] by Pope Pius IX in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus . [ 4 ]

  3. Ineffabilis Deus - Wikipedia

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    The document was promulgated on December 8, 1854, [4] the date of the annual Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, and followed from a positive response to the encyclical Ubi primum. Mary's immaculate conception is a pronouncement made ex cathedra and is therefore considered by the Catholic Church to be infallible through the extraordinary ...

  4. Altarpiece in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception

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    The theme of the altarpiece is the Immaculate Conception. [1]Official Catholic dogma states that Mary, receiving in anticipation the fruits of the resurrection of her son Jesus, was conceived free of original sin: she was not corrupted by the initial fault that has since given every human being a tendency to commit evil.

  5. Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. Ubi primum (Pius IX, 1849) - Wikipedia

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    The positive response to Ubi primum led to the 1854 bull Ineffabilis Deus, which defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. In April 1850, Dom Prosper Guéranger, abbot of St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes, published Mémoire sur l'Immaculée Conception demonstrating why belief in the Immaculate Conception might be the object of a dogmatic ...

  7. Patronages of the Immaculate Conception - Wikipedia

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    An image of the Immaculate Conception venerated in the Shrine of Our Lady of Conception of Villa Vicosa was donated by Nuno Álvares Pereira. On 25 March 1646, King John IV of Portugal proclaimed Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception the nation's patroness, so that 8 December is a special feast day in Portugal.

  8. Conceptionists - Wikipedia

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    The Order of the Immaculate Conception was founded by the Portuguese Saint Beatrice of Silva. In 1489, by permission of Pope Innocent VIII, the nuns adopted the Cistercian rule, [3] bound themselves to the daily recitation of the Divine Office, and they were placed under obedience to the ordinary of the diocese. [2]

  9. Sanctuary on San Cristóbal Hill - Wikipedia

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    The Sanctuary of the Immaculate Conception on San Cristóbal Hill is one of the principal places of worship for the Catholic Church of Chile, as well as being an icon of Santiago, Chile. It is notable in particular for a large statue of the Immaculate Conception , which is located at the summit of San Cristóbal Hill , some 863 meters above sea ...