The Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Today is the Catholic feast day of the Immaculate Conception, otherwise known as a day of solemnity or obligation. This holiday celebrates the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary. The Roman Catholic Church regards the holiday as a Holy Day of Obligation: therefore countries where the Roman Church holds sway, such as in Italy, celebrate the Feast as a public holiday. In Panama, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated as Mother
Since the Tomb of the Virgin Mary resides on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, the day has special significance for Catholic worshippers in the region. The shrine is a popular pilgrimage site that has significance for both Catholic Christianity and Islam.
The history of this holiday is closely tied with the acceptance of the Immaculate Conception as Christian dogma. For example, the Eastern Orthodox Church does not accept the dogma, even though the earliest origins of the holiday were in the Eastern Church.
At that time, which was the seventh century, the Immaculate Conception of Mary was not regarded as a dogma. It was therefore possible to reject the belief without being considered a heretic. This tradition carried on even after the term “Immaculate Conception” became popularized, and was upheld by the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century. Those who promoted the Immaculate Conception and those who rejected it were both tolerated equally.
In the eighth century, the holiday became a feast of the Roman Catholic Church, and has remained so to this day. But it was only in the nineteenth century that the Immaculate Conception was decreed a bona fide dogma of the Catholic Church by Pope Pius IX in 1854.
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