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Rome (Fides Service) – “The immaculate Mother of God in the 17th Century” is the title of the 14th International Colloquium on Mariology dedicated to Ippolito Marracci promoted jointly by the Italian Interdisciplinary Mariological Association, the Order of Regular Clerics of the Mother of God and the Roman parish of S. Maria in Portico in Campitelli, 18 to 21 February at the Sala Baldini (Piazza Campitelli) in Rome. The Colloquium is dedicated to the theological and spiritual works of Father Ippolito Marracci, Order of Regular Clerics of the Mother of God to mark the 4th centenary of his birth. The event is part of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854. Born on 18 February 1604, Ippolito Marracci was a man of extraordinary cultural riches, a great precursor of the Marian era and a fecund Mariologist: his extensive Mariological writings, still partly unedited, consists of 115 works of which only 29 have been published. The Colloquium programme includes talks on a variety of topics including: The figure of the Immaculate Mother of God in the Baroque historical and cultural context; How Ippolito Marracci contributed with his theological work and life witness to the development of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception; Immaculate Mary in the Iconography of 17th Century Europe; An Anglican viewpoint for an Ecumenical Discussion on the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of Jesus. For more information see: madredidio@libero.it or carbonaromd@hotmail.com.
(S.L.) (Fides Service 5/2/2004 – lines 18; words 201)
