8th December: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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The following is an account taken from Butler’s Lives of the Saints compiled between 1756-1759. By the bull Ineffabilis Deus of December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX, by an exercise of his supreme pontifical power of infallible teaching, pronounced and defined it to be: “a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly…

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