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The shrine of the Immaculate Conception, consisting of Madonna and Child as patroness of Portugal. By royal decree under the House of Braganza, the Immaculate Conception is the patroness of Portugal. An image of the Immaculate Conception venerated in the Shrine of Our Lady of Conception of Villa Vicosa was donated by Nuno Álvares Pereira.
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 ...
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 ]
In Catholic Mariology Mary is held as having been born and conceived a Saint [2] and full of Grace, [3] as a consequence of the Immaculate Conception. [4] It is also generally held [5] by Theologians that she had free will and rational thought, through infused knowledge, from "the first instant of her conception," [6] worshipping and loving God in her mother's womb and as an infant and child. [2]
Titian's Assumption of the Virgin (Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa, Venice). On 1 November 1950, invoking his dogmatic authority, Pope Pius XII defined the dogma: By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin ...
Madonna and Child, Master of Badia a Isola, c.1300. Mariological papal documents have been a major force that has shaped Roman Catholic Mariology over the centuries. Mariology is developed by theologians on the basis not only of Scripture and Tradition but also of the sensus fidei of the faithful as a whole, "from the bishops to the last of the faithful", [1] and papal documents have recorded ...
The Immaculata prayer is a Traditional Catholic Marian prayer composed by Saint Maximillian Kolbe.. It is a prayer of consecration to the Immaculata, i.e. the immaculately conceived Virgin Mary.
Catalina and her daughters then converted their family home into the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception, to be a part of the Order of the Immaculate Conception. The choice of this Order was a part of the huge devotion to the Immaculate Conception of Mary which marked Spanish spirituality of that period. They began this endeavor as part of ...