Boston College High School - Forbian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Z MWQW yfkfwmczzki K WE COMMEMORATE in this year of 19541, the centenary of the Dogmatic decree: Inef- fabilis Deus - regarding the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pronounced from St. Peterls by His Holiness Pope Pius IX, urbi et orbi. Moreover, it seems that the Blessed Virgin Mary herself wished to confirm by some spe- cial sign the definition, which the Vicar her Divine Son on earth had pronounced amidst the applause of the whole Church. For indeed four years had not yet elapsed when, The truth contained in this beautiful and cons soling Dogma had not, till eighteen-hundred and fifty-four years after the coming of the long-expected Saviour, been stamped with the seal of infallible solemnity. It was on Decem- ber 8th, 1854 that His Holiness proclaimed 4 LOURDES as an infallible Catholic doctrine that the Vir- gin Mary in the first instant of her concep- tion was, by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty Cod, in view of the merits of in a French town at the foot of the the Virgin Mother, youthful and benign in appearance, clothed in a shining white ment, covered with a white mantle and with a hanging blue cord, showed herself a simple and innocent girl at the grotto V POPE PIUS IX Massabielle. And to this same girl, inquiring the name of her with whose she was favored, with eyes raised to and sweetly smiling, she replied: 'I the Saviour of th hum n r ce e a a , from all stain of original Immaculate Conception'L . . Letter, Radiant Crown, of and resolutely