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The title refers to Revelation 12:1 "A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." [2] Signum Magnum begins by asserting that honor is accorded to Mary throughout history, and states, "Mary's spiritual motherhood transcends the boundaries of time and space ...
At an early stage the Church in Rome celebrated on 1 January a feast that it called the anniversary (Natale) of the Mother of God. [9] When this was overshadowed by the feasts of the Annunciation and the Assumption, adopted from Constantinople at the start of the 7th century, 1 January began to be celebrated simply as the octave day of Christmas, the "eighth day" on which, according to Luke 2: ...
Redemptoris Mater (Latin: Mother of the Redeemer) is an encyclical by Pope John Paul II delivered on March 25, 1987 in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Subtitled On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of the Pilgrim Church , the text addresses a number of topics in Mariology .
On Jan. 1, Sheets told his ... supporters to lean toward real-world violence, but a more intensified and specific form of this belief system that he calls “strategic spiritual warfare.” ...
The Catholic leader’s stance on surrogacy is likely to roil the LGBT community, of which many members have relied on the practice to have their own children.
The 1969 revision of the liturgical year and the calendar in the Roman Rite states: “1 January, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, and also the commemoration of the conferral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.” [18] [19] It deleted the 11 October feast, even for Portugal, stating ...
January 1 Mary, Mother of God; August 15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Among the other prominent Marian feast days and memorials in the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church are: [102] December 10 Our Lady of Loreto; December 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe; February 11 Our Lady of Lourdes; May 13 Our Lady of Fátima
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