Solemnity
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Feast day
- December 08
Life
This solemnity celebrates the dogma that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first moment of her conception, was preserved free from original sin by a singular grace of God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ. Pope Pius IX solemnly defined the dogma in 1854 in the bull Ineffabilis Deus. Under this title Mary is the patronal saint of the United States.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.