The purity and holiness of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a model for all Christians. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of the Immaculate Conception of Mary: 490. To become the mother of the ...

Several years later, in 1858, the Blessed Mother gave her name to St. Bernadette at Lourdes stating, "I am the Immaculate Conception." As we celebrate the beautiful solemnity of the Immaculate ...

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When he opened the cloak, the roses fell out, and an image of the Blessed Mother was ... Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It shows the familiar image of the Virgin Mary with her head bowed ...

The Immaculate Conception is the belief that Mary was born free from original sin. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated by Catholics on 8 December each year.

John Duns Scotus was a Franciscan friar who provided the theological explanation of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in the early ... life and teachings of the blessed in the years between ...

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA - The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed ... of Mary's perpetual virginity, her assumption to heaven, and being the mother of God.

Mary was blessed by God as the mother of His Son and in her freedom from sin. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception developed slowly through the centuries. Some divinely revealed truths take ...