Ten years later the Sorbonne in Paris required all its degree candidates to pledge an oath to defend the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Pope Sixtus IV in 1476 approved the feast with its proper Mass ...

The Immaculate Conception, a solemnity celebrated on December 8, is the patronal feast of the United States ... finality the long-held belief of the Church that Mary was conceived free from ...

(Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, 1854) In 1854, Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration, "Ineffabilis Deus," clarified with finality the long-held belief of the Church that Mary was conceived free from ...

He also dedicated a chapel to the Immaculate Virgin in St. Peter's Basilica. The Mass and Office of the Immaculate Conception was approved for the whole Church by Pope Innocent XII in 1695 and the ...

Devotees flock to the Manila Cathedral in observance of the Feast of ... of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is usually celebrated by the Catholic Church on December 8.