The holiday that commemorates this event was originally established by Sixtus IV, but the church did not definitively confirm the doctrine that lies behind it.
The holiday that commemorates this event was originally established by Sixtus IV, but the church did not definitively confirm the doctrine that lies behind it. Pope Alexander VII gave further support to the doctrine in 1661, but it was not until the Apostolic Constiution Ineffabilis Deus, issued in 1854 by Pius IX that it became universal doctrine that this event was a one- time exception to a universal law. Its holiday is 8 December, although it's often confused with the Feast of the Incarnation, which takes place nine months before Christmas. FTP, name this event that happened to St. Anne in the penultimate decade of the first century BC and allowed the mother of Christ to be the one non-divine human being to be sinless.
The holiday that commemorates this event was originally established by Sixtus IV, but the church did not definitively confirm the doctrine that lies behind it.
{Immaculate Conception} of Mary (Accept equivalents that make it clear that we are talking about Mary being free from sin, not Jesus)