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 ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated every year on the eighth of December. Even though this feast day occurs in ...

The solemnity of Mary’s Immaculate Conception is celebrated on December 8 ... In 2008 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin’s apparitions at Lourdes, where she identified herself to ...

M ANILA, Philippines — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila on Saturday reminded the faithful that the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Dec. 8, Sunday ...

The cloak imprinted with the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary received by Juan Diego is still preserved today, said the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

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 ...

This stained glass window of “Mary the Virgin” has been ... the altar at St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception. Mark Guydish Photo The Blessed Mother is depicted with angels in ...

That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace ...