Chaminade High School - Eagle Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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ENC YCLICAL LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS x 1 4 PI US XII ,If ' BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE WVQNQ POPE C0 M f, lpn A Marian Year is Proclaimed To 66 Cefebmled T 61' k Wie' the' H ly Fa PCZPE PIUS Xu ozzgoazzr lbe World 022 Me Omfzfzbfz of The Flalff Cerzfezzary of lbe Defnvzkiazz of V The Dogma of fbe Ilflnldfllldff C' Ollfepflbll Of 166 Bleffed Virgin Mary FULGENS CORONA . . . the radiant crown of glory, with which the most pure brow of the Virgin Mother was encircled by God, seems to Us to shine more brilliantly, as We recall to mind the day, on which Our Predecessor, Pius IX ,... with infallible apostolic authority defined, pronounced and solemnly sanctioned that the doctrine, which holds that the Most Blessed Virgin Mary at the first moment of her conception was preserved from all stains of original sin, is revealed by God, and therefore to be firmly and resolutely believed by all the faithful. I Dog- matic bull INEFFABILIS DEUS, of Dec. 8, 18541 Moreover, it seems that the Blessed Virgin Mary herself wished to confirm by some special sign the definition . . . four years had not yet elapsed when . . . the Virgin Mother, youthful and benign in appearance, clothed in a shining white garment, covered with a white mantle and girded with a hanging blue cord, showed herself to a simple and innocent girl . . . who inquiring the name of her with whose vision she was favored, with eyes raised to heaven and sweetly smiling, she replied' I am the Immaculate Conception. It is therefore, a pleasure for Us, after a full century has passed, to summarize the whole doctrinal position and conclude in these words, that there is nothing more sweet, nothing dearer than to worship, venerate, invoke and praise with ardent affection the Mother of God conceived without stain of original sin. May the Apostolic Benediction which We impart most lovi in the Lord to all of you . . . be a pledge of a token of our paternal benevol on the eighth d fif Glofioujly ow N ng ngly heavenly gifts and ence. Given at St. Peter's Rome, ay of September . . . in the year 1953, the teenth of Our Pontificate.

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