
Catholic dogma concerning Mary and the name of a feast in her honor celebrated Dec. 8. It refers to the belief that Mary was without sin from the moment she was conceived.
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The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, was the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in her mother`s womb free from original sin. The Immaculate Conception is commonly confused with the doctrine of the Incarnation and the virgin birth of Jesus, though the two deal with separate subjects. The Catholic Church t....
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[Zurbarán] The Immaculate Conception is a painting by Zurbarán conserved at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. == Description == The Immaculate Conception represents Mary as the only mortal being free of original sin. This is a long-established Catholic doctrinal argument, frequently depicted in the painting of the Spanish Golden Age. ...
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(from the article `Greco, El`) ...swaying figure of St. John the Evangelist, in abstractly painted icy-blue garments, reveals the souls of the martyrs who cry out for deliverance. ...
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Roman Catholic dogma asserting that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved free from the effects of the sin of Adam (usually referred to as ... [7 related articles]
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In the Roman Catholic Church, the belief that the Virgin Mary was, by a special act of grace, preserved free from
original sin from the moment she...
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In the mythology of the Roman Catholic Church, immaculate conception is the doctrine that Mary became pregnant without having sexual intercourse (so called original sin). This doctrine came into favour in the 12th century, when, however, it was opposed by St Bernard, and it afterwards became a subject of vehement controversy between the Scotists, w...
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[Catholicism] Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born without original sin.
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A teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that the Blessed Virgin Mary, by a singular grace and privilege of God, through the merits of her son Jesus Christ, was preserved from the stain or effects of original sin from the first moment of her conception by her parents. This teaching is not the same as the virgin birth of Jesus (Reid et al. 1990
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Catholic dogma concerning Mary and the name of a feast in her honour celebrated on 8 December. It refers to the Catholic belief that Mary was without sin from the moment she was conceived.
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[
n] - Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854 2. [n] - the Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin
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the dogma of the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (in the womb of her mother, St Anne), but free from original sin by God in virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ.
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the Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without Original Sin (the sin of Adam and Eve conveyed to all human beings). This is not the same thing as the Virgin Birth, `the belief that Jesus was divinely begotten and miraculously born of a virgin mother.”
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Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary noun (Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived
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In the Roman Catholic Church, the belief that the Virgin Mary was, by a special act of grace, preserved free from original sin from the moment she was conceived. This article of the Catholic faith was for centuries the subject of heated controversy, opposed by St Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but generally accepted from about the 16th centu...
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the dogma of the unique privilege by which the Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb without the stain of original sin through the anticipated merits of Jesus Christ. Cf. virgin birth (def. 1).
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