LITURGICAL
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
A day of the liturgical calendar
Celebrates the dogma defined by Pope Pius IX in 1854: that Mary was preserved free from original sin in the first moment of her conception.
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Celebrated on December 8 (nine months before the Nativity of Mary on September 8). Patronal Feast of the United States of America.
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12-08
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