Today, December 8 is the feast day of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception...I have no fitting photo of the Immaculate Conception image, but I guess this will suffice.
Being a Catholic, and schooled in a catholic school, I have never really fully understood this Marian tradition.
Good thing there are available online resources already. I am glad the my high school Alma Mater is intensifying its catechism on this matter.
Catholic Encyclopedia mentions:
In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and graceGod, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin."
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