Immaculate Conception of the BVM

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 579 words | Copyright

Immaculate Conception of the BVM. The dogma that ‘from the first moment of her conception the Blessed Virgin Mary was …kept free from all stain of original sin’ was defined by Pius IX in 1854. The doctrine was a matter of dispute throughout the Middle Ages, but was generally accepted by RCs from the 16th cent. It has not been endorsed by E. theologians, mainly because they do not share the W. conception of original sin. The feast, approved by Pope Sixtus IV in 1476, is kept on 8 Dec. (In the E. the Feast of the Conception of the BVM is kept on 9 Dec.)

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