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Dictionaries
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Conception, Immaculate
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Immaculate Conception
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
• Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception
• Scapular of the Immaculate Conception
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• The Immaculate Conception
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Conception, Immaculate
• Immaculate Conception, the
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Immaculate-Conception Oath
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Immaculate Conception
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception
• Congregation of the Immaculate Conception
• Immaculate Conception

The doctrine held by the Roman Catholic Church that the Virgin Mary was conceived and born without taint of sin; first distinctly propounded in the 12th century, at which time a festival was introduced in celebration of it, and which became matter of dispute in the 14th century, and it was only in 1854 that it became by a bull an article of the Catholic faith.