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“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
Blessed John Henry Newman.
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On the 5th and 12th centuries, St. Augustine and St. Bernard, respectively, pointed out a contradiction: “How could Jesus be the Saviour of a human creature who had been exempt from sin from the moment of conception?” This issue sparked debates among theologians for centuries, until theologian Duns Scutos argued that the Virgin Mary is favoured with an “anticipated redemption,” but still this argument didn’t settle the issue.
On November 27, 1830, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared for the second time to St. Catherine Laboure. She was standing on a globe. Her arms were outstretched downwards. An oval frame formed around her on which were written the words “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” Then Mary instructed Catherine to have a medal struck after this model. Countless extraordinary blessings were attributed to the medal after its propagation in 1832 that in 1834, people began calling it the miraculous medal.
Largely because of the widespread use of Mary’s miraculous medal, and the countless debates on the issue of Mary “as conceived without sin,” on December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX solemnly declared Mary’s Immaculate Conception as a dogma in his encyclical Ineffabilis Deu
Then, four years later, on the sixteenth apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Bernadette on 25 March 1858, in Lourdes, France. Bernadette asked her who she was. She answered “I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.”
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Immaculate Mary, thy praises we sing;
Who reignest in splendour with Jesus our King.
Ave, ave, ave, Maria! Ave, ave, Maria!
In heaven, the blessed thy glory proclaim;
On earth we, thy children, invoke thy fair name.
Ave, ave, ave, Maria! Ave, ave, Maria!
We pray for our Mother, the Church upon earth,
And bless, dearest Lady, the land of our birth.
Ave, ave, ave, Maria! Ave, ave, Maria!
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