Friday, September 9, 2016

“This devotion and worship to the mother of God again increased and was propagated, .... so that the universities having embraced this opinion (that is, the pious one [her Immaculate Conception]), almost all Catholics embrace it.”Pope Alexander VII, in the celebrated bull, “Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum,” issued in the year 1661 (Cited by St. Alphonsus in his work “The Glories of Mary”; Pope Pius IX later defined it as a dogma in 1854, and Our Lady revealed herself as “The Immaculate Conception” at Lourdes in 1858.) 

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