The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is one of the most important Marian feasts in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated worldwide. The feast was first solemnized as a Holy Day of Obligation on 6 December 1708 under the Papal Bull Commissi Nobis Divinitus by Pope Clement XI. It is often celebrated with Catholic Mass, parades, fireworks, processions, ethnic foods, and cultural festivities.
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The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is one of the most important Marian feasts in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated worldwide. The feast was first solemnized as a Holy Day of Obligation on 6 December 1708 under the Papal Bull Commissi Nobis Divinitus by Pope Clement XI. It is often celebrated with Catholic Mass, parades, fireworks, processions, ethnic foods, and cultural festivities in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary and is generally considered a Family Day, especially in many populous Catholic countries. By Pontifical decree, it is the patronal feast day of America, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Korea, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Philippines, Spain and Uruguay.
By royal decree, the feast is designated as the patroness of Portugal. The Eastern Christian Church first celebrated a \”Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy and All Pure Mother of God\” on December 9, perhaps as early as the 5th century in Syria. The majority of Orthodox Christians do not accept the Scholastic definition of Mary’s preservation from original sin before her birth as subsequently defined in the Western Church after the Great Schism of 1054. In 1568, Pope Pius V revised the Roman Breviary, and though the Franciscans were allowed to retain the Office and Mass written by Bernardine dei Busti, this office was suppressed for the rest of the Church.
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