| It is defined by Pius IX, in 1854, as a result
of a deep sensus fidelium and the Magisterium rather than proof
in scripture or ancient tradition. >> |
Testimony of Mary’s “unique holiness”
beginning with the Proto Gospel of James, 2nd century. Fundamental
parallelism Eve/Mary. Testimony of Ephrem the Syrian, Theodore
of Ancyra and Augustine.>> |
With an excursus from the 9th to the 18th century
the story of the formation of the dogma gradually emerged (Council
of Basle, papal bull by Sixtus IV, Council of Trent, encyclical
Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum di Alexander VII).
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Pius IX issues encyclical Ubi primum to see Bishops
attitude to an eventual definition of the dogma, and the proclaims
the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception with the Papal
Bull Ineffabilis Deus. >> |
Introduction