Was Mary Immaculate? (Feast of Lourdes)

The Immaculate Conception is the dogma that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin.

This doctrine states that Mary was preserved from the "stain of sin" from the first moment of her conception through a unique grace from God, granted in anticipation of her role as the mother of Jesus.

The Immaculate Conception is celebrated annually on December 8th as a solemn feast day, whose observance began with a Papal encyclical by Pope Pius IX, when he formally defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854.

Several years later, in 1858, the Blessed Mother gave her name to St. Bernadette at Lourdes stating, "I am the Immaculate Conception." A Protestant theologian and pastor offers an interesting appraisal of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

The annual Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes was established in 1890 for February 11 by Pope Leo XIII.

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