Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It was a December 8, 1854, a Friday, to be exact, when Pius IX set forth as dogma that Mary “at the first instant of her conception, by… Continue reading “I Am the Immaculate Conception”
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St. Bernadette Soubirous: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections
St. Bernadette Soubirous was born in France on January 7, 1844, and died on this date in 1879. You probably know the story of the six months during which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Bernadette, a sickly, functionally illiterate fourteen year old. The girl’s witness never wavered, no matter how often or how long authorities questioned… Continue reading St. Bernadette Soubirous: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections