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Conception of Our Lady, an order of nuns founded in Portugal in 1484; at first followed the rule of the Cistercians, but afterwards that of St. Clare. Nun in cloister, 1930; photograph by Doris Ulmann A nun is a woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life. ... Events January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and... The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. ... Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio, (July 16, 1194–August 11, 1253) was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi and founded the Order of Poor Ladies to organize the women who chose to take the Franciscan vow of poverty and celibacy. ...
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OurLady possessed a purity of mind and heart that moved Gabriel the Archangel to declare: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee." The angelic greeting reveals the beauty of the soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a soul dedicated and consecrated to God with a total and undivided loyalty.
In frescoes of the Nativity, for example, OurLady adores the Christ-child while, in the distance, one also views either the shepherds receiving the angel's announcement of the Messiah's birth or the magi on their way from the East to Bethlehem in the same holy picture.
His painting of "OurLady of the Immaculate Conception" opened a new path for artists of Faith, to depict the Blessed Virgin Mary as "a glorious and grace-filled idea in the mind of God" at the instant before her ensoulment on Earth.
A comparison with the conception of Christ and that of St. John may serve to light both on the dogma and on the reasons which led the Greeks to celebrate at an early date the Feast of the Conception of Mary.
Our Lord, being conceived by the Holy Ghost, was, by virtue of his miraculous conception, ipso facto free from the taint of original sin.
They solemnized the Conception of Mary, perhaps because, according to the "Proto-evangelium" of St. James, it was preceded by miraculous events (the apparition of an angel to Joachim, etc.), similar to those which preceded the conception of St. John, and that of our Lord Himself.
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