And the day when the foolish Pius IX presumed to proclaim and define, to the great joy of free-thinkers and the enemies of Catholicism, the ridiculous dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the presence of two hundred dumb complaisant prelates, on that day he experienced profound grief.

' 'The Archbishop is a good Catholic who believes in everything the Church teachesin the Divinity of our Lord, the Immaculate Conception, and the Pope's indulgences.

There can be no doubt that the Sovereign Pontiff has declared the same opinion as to the temporal power as that which is censured in others, and that he defined the Immaculate Conception, and that he believes in his own infallibility.

The very dogma of the Immaculate Conception itself Dr. Newman sees indissolubly involved in the "rudimentary teaching" which insists on the parallelism between Eve and Mary: Was not Mary as fully endowed as Eve?...

I do not know how to resist this inference:well, this is simply and literally the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Did not women paint those pictures of Isisgoddess of Sothisthat are like precursors of the pictures of the Immaculate Conception?

The interior of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, in the Church of the Gerolamini, is strong in execution and good in drawing and color.

The First Papal Decree touching the Immaculate Conception.

I shall begin with those symbols which are borrowed from the Litanies of the Virgin, and from certain texts of the Canticles, in all ages of the Church applied to her; symbols which, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, frequently accompany those representations which set forth her Glorification or Predestination; and, in the seventeenth, are introduced into the "Immaculate Conception.

We meet with it in some of the late pictures of the Immaculate Conception.

(I have mentioned, with regard to the office in honour of the Immaculate Conception, that the idea is said to have originated in England.

After the time of Velasquez and Rubens, the "Immaculate Conception" superseded the "Coronation."

OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. Ital.

But the first mention of a festival, or solemn celebration of the Mystery of the Immaculate Conception, may be traced to an English monk of the eleventh century, whose name is not recorded, (v. Baillet, vol.

I must go back to observe, that previous to the promulgation of the famous bull of Pope Paul V., the popular ideas concerning the Immaculate Conception had left their impress on art.

The whole painted in his silvery tone, with such an extreme delicacy and transparency of effect, that it might be styled "a vision of the Immaculate Conception.

[Footnote 1: We often find on pictures and prints of the Immaculate Conception, certain scriptural texts which the theologians of the Roman Church have applied to the Blessed Virgin; for instance, from Ps. xliv.

Before quitting the subject of the Immaculate Conception.

I must refer to a very curious picture called an Assumption, but certainly painted at least one hundred years before the Immaculate Conception was authorized as a Church subject.

There is a curious picture by Cesi (Bologna Gal.), in which St. Anna kneels before a vision of her daughter before she is bornthe Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.

His picture in the Bridgewater Gallery, often styled an Assumption, is an Immaculate Conception.

Do you know, while I have been writing to you, no memory could have profaned you; to me you are as everlastingly pure as the Holy Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, and you have wanted nothing to make you like the Madonna except the Child.

He was a strong upholder of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.

; his subjects were drawn partly from low life and partly from religious or scripture themes, such as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Virgin, as well as "Moses Smiting the Rock," the "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes," &c.; died from a fall from a scaffold while painting an altar-piece at Cadiz (1618-1682).

We abjure and testify against Popery, as delineated by our ancestors in the National Covenant, together with the fictitious dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and the blasphemous assumption by the Pope of Jehovah's incommunicable prerogative of Infallibility.

Priestley, for example, while adhering to the idea that the Christian revelation had been guaranteed by miracles, had abandoned belief in the Virgin birth as early as 1784, and went so far as to maintain that Jesus was not impeccable and had certainly entertained erroneous ideas about demoniacal possession.

The virgin birth.

The virgin birth of Christ.

The virgin birth of Christ.

The virgin birth.

The virgin birth of Christ.

The virgin birth of Christ.