Immaculate Conception of Conception

Marian Invocation of Conception (Biobío)

La Immaculate Conception es un dogma of the Catholic Church defined by the Pope Pius IX by the bull Ineffabilis God el 8 December 1854. She claims that the Virgin Mary was preserved from the first moment of her conception from every stain of original sin, in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ. The Universal liturgical solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated 8 December.

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Origin and history

La Immaculate Conception es un dogma of the Catholic Church defined by the Pope Pius IX by the bull Ineffabilis God el 8 December 1854. She claims that the Virgin Mary was preserved from the first moment of her conception from every stain of original sin, in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ. The Universal liturgical solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated 8 December.

As for a specific advocation under the title "Immaculate Concepción de Concepción" linked to Concepción (department of Biobío, Colombia), no consta in official sources (archivistic, diocesan, or sanctuary repertory) a documented history of its origin, or the erection of an archdiocese with the name of "Most Holy Conception" in Colombia. The references found on Conception and the Immaculate they are in other countries (for example, the archdiocese of the Most Holy Conception in Chile) and not in Colombia, so they cannot be used for this document without causing geographical or historical confusion.

No reliable data on a foundation of local veneration, apparition, finding of an image or solemn transfer of an image of the Immaculate specifically associated with a Marian cathedral or sanctuary with that title in Concepción (Biobío, Colombia). Consequently, on a documented local history of this advocation beyond the general framework of the dogma of the Immaculate.

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The image and the sanctuary

In the repertories consulted and in the accessible ecclesial sources no consta a precise and documented description of a headline image of the "Immaculate Conception of Conception" in the city of Concepción (Biobío, Colombia): no consta the material, authorship, dating, or specific iconographic features of an image officially recognized under that title.

In general, the iconography of the Immaculate Conception in the Hispanic field represents Mary as woman dressed in sunyoung man, standing on the moon and often on a serpent, with blue mantle and white robe, in reference to Ap 12: 1 and to victory over sin. This description, however, is generica of the iconographic model of the Immaculate, and no consta which corresponds to a specific image of an official sanctuary with the title indicated in Concepción (Colombia).

The existence of a Marian sanctuary, minor basilica the cathedral officially recognized under the title "Immaculate Conception of Concepción" in the municipality of Concepción, Biobío, Colombia. No consta the official name of a Marian temple with that title or its eventual designation as a national or diocesan sanctuary. Any attempt to specify architectural, historical or artistic data of the temple would be conjectural and cannot be offered as verified information.

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Sponsorship and coronation

In the documentation consulted no consta que la Immaculate Conception of Concepción (Colombia) haya sido proclamada principal patron of an archdiocese canonically erected with the name "Most Holy Conception," nor that there is a pontifical or episcopal decree that testifies to it. The references to the patronage of the Immaculate as the main patron are, in a well documented way, in other countries (for example, as the patron of the United States under the title of the Immaculate Conception).

About a possible canonical coronation of the image (whether made by a Pontiff, a papal legacy or by the mandate of the Holy See) does not contain a documented canonical coronation. No data have been found on date, ecclesiastical authority or corresponding decree.

Therefore, for the specific area described in the consultation (Concepción, Biobío, Colombia), no consta an official recognition of patronage or canonical coronation of an image under the specific title "Immaculate Conception of Conception."

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Party and devotion

La the main feast of the Immaculate Conception in the universal Church es el 8 Decemberthe date on which the solemnity of dogma defined in 1854 is celebrated, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (8 September). This date is common to the entire Latin Church and therefore also to any community that venerates Mary under this title.

However, as regards local traditions of Concepción (Biobío, Colombia) - such as processions, novies, pilgrimages, promises, vigil, inflow data or other particular practices - no consta documented information in accessible diocesan, parish or journalistic sources. A specific local devotional profile (for example, a given procession, a "month of Mary" of its own, or a communal rosemary) cannot be strictly described without conjecture.

It can be said in general that, where the Immaculate Conception is celebrated, popular piety often includes novena previa, prayer of Rosary, solemn celebration of the Eucharistand in many places domestic processions or altars, but these data are of a general nature and no consta take a concrete and unique form in Concepción (Biobío, Colombia).

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Link to the Rosary

In the information consulted no consta a specific historical or normative link between the "Immaculate Conception of Concepción (Colombia)" and a practice of Rosary (for example, a Rosary fellowship linked to that specific image, specific indulgences or a formally documented local tradition).

From a theological and spiritual point of view, the Immaculate Conception is naturally integrated in the contemplation of the mysteries of the Rosary. The dogma highlights the original holiness of Marypreserved from sin for the merits of Christ, and presents the Virgin as first of redemption and a model of grace. The prayer of the Rosary, by going through the mysteries of Christ's life with Mary, helps to contemplate the Immaculate as the one who fully welcomes divine grace and cooperates in a unique way in the history of salvation.

So, though no consta a unique and rosarian tradition of Concepción (Biobío, Colombia) linked to this advocation, devotion to the Immaculate is spontaneously harmonized with the Rosary: in the meditation of the joyful mysteries is contemplated to the full of grace from the Annunciation; in the painful mysteries the Mother associated with the cross of Christ; and in the glorious mysteries Mary is seen as Mother glorified, completely free from the stain of sin and filled with the fullness of redemption.