βͺ Saint of the Day : 08 December
βͺ Solemnity :
8 December
9 December (Latin calendar if 8 December is a Sunday in order to avoid conflict with Advent)
βͺ Other Names:
Immaculate Conception of Mary, Mary, the Immaculate Conception
Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
βͺ Patronage :
Brazil, Korea, Macau, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, United States, Uruguay, barrel makers, cloth makers, cloth workers, coopers, soldiers of the United States, Spanish infantry, tapestry workers, upholsterers
On this day, so dear to every Catholic heart, "we celebrate, in the first place, the moment in which Almighty God showed Mary, through the distance of ages, to our first parents as the Virgin Mother of the divine Redeemer, the woman destined to crush the head of the serpent. And as by eternal decree she was miraculously exempt from ail stain of original sin, and endowed with the richest treasures of grace and sanctity, it is meet that we should honor her glorious prerogatives by this special feast of the Immaculate Conception. We should join in spirit with the blessed in heaven, and rejoice with our dear Mother, not jniy for her own sake, but for ours, her children, "who are partakers of her glory and happiness.
Secondly, we are called upon to celebrate that ever-memorable day, the 8th of December, 1854, which raised the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Lady from a pious belief to the dignity of a dogma of the Infallible Church, causing universal joy among the faithful.
βͺ Reflection βLet us repeat frequently these words applied by the Church to the Blessed Virgin : "Thou art all fair, O Mary ! and there is not a spot in thee " (Cant. iv. 7).
Source : Pictorial lives of Saints
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- βͺ Saint Ambrose of Milan
- βͺ Saint Nicholas of Myra - Priest Abbot Bishop
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- βͺ St. Bibiana - Virgin, Martyr
- βͺ Saint Eligius of Noyon
- βͺ Martyrs of the First Ages - Saint Agricola and Saint Vitalis
- βͺ Blessed Martin of Saint Nicholas and Melchior of Saint Augustine
- βͺ Blessed Fr. Alojzy Liguda
- βͺ Blessed Niels Stenson
- βͺ Blessed Rafal Chylinsk
- βͺ Blessed Maria Angela Astorch
- βͺ Blessed Liduina Meneguzzi - Religious
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- βͺ Saint Othilia - Virgin and Abbess
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- βͺ Saint John Payne: Martyr of Englandβs Faith
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- Saint Nicetius of Lyon: A Holy Bishop Who Trusted God
- βͺ Blessed Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska: Mother of Mercy and Education
- βͺ Saint Lodovico Pavoni: Apostle of Youth and Work
- βͺ Blessed Giuseppe Girotti: A Martyr of Charity and Truth
- βͺ Blessed Karl of Austria
- βͺ Saint Mary of Egypt: From Sinner to Desert Saint
- βͺ Saint Hugh of ChΓ’teauneuf: A Holy Shepherd of Faith
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- βͺ Saint Sylvester of Assisi
- βͺ Saint Conon the Gardener
- βͺ Saint John of the Cross
- βͺ Saint Peter of Pappacarbone - Bishop of Policastro
- βͺ Saint Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia - Martyrs
- βͺ Saint Casimir of Poland - Confessor
- βͺ Saint Luke Casali - Monk & Priest
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- βͺ Saint Chad of Mercia
- βͺ Saint Katharine Drexel - Foundress
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- βͺ Blessed Giovanna Maria Bonomo - Nun, Mystic
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