Mary Immaculate - Saint Rita's Parish - Connellsville, Pennsylvania
N 40° 00.996 W 079° 35.702
17T E 619901 N 4430545
This statue is located in a grotto outside of Saint Rita's Parish and is located next to the Partner Parishes of Connellsville Offices at 116 South Second Street in the City of Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMKTJY
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2014
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Mary Immaculate - Saint Rita's Parish - Connellsville, Pennsylvania
This Statue of Mary Immaculate was dedicated in 1954, one of two Marian Years, this one by Pope Pius XII in a time of which year was filled with Marian initiatives, in the areas of mariology, cultural events, and charity and social gatherings. It was decided to dedicate this statue to Mary Immaculate by the Congregation of Saint Rita's Parish that year in the church's grotto, that was constructed about twenty years earlier.
ABOUT MARY IMMACULATE
The Immaculate Conception is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, the unique privilege by which, when the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in her mother's womb, she was kept free of original sin through the anticipated merits of Jesus Christ. The teaching about her immaculate conception is a dogma of the Church and her immaculate conception itself is celebrated with an annual feast day.
The doctrine of the immaculate conception of Mary concerns her own conception in her mother's womb, not Mary's conception of Jesus (the virgin birth of Jesus) nor the perpetual virginity of Mary.
Although the belief that Mary was sinless and conceived immaculate was widely held since at least Late Antiquity, the doctrine was not dogmatically defined until December 8, 1854, by Pope Pius IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is observed on December 8 in many Catholic countries as a holy day of obligation or patronal feast, and in some as a national public holiday.