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Certainly the doctrine is understood to be part of Pope Pius IX's plan in 1854, when he proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (i.e., that the Virgin Mary, as well as Jesus, was not conceived as other mortals...
...rejected the doctrine, as did also St. Bonaventura. However, John Duns Scotus, a celebrated Franciscan who died in 1308, argued in favor of the Immaculate Conception, in 1387 the University of Paris adopted it, in 1483 Pope Sixtus IV condemned those who denied it, and in 1854 Pope Pius IX promulgated it as dogma...
...years since Princess Alexandra, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, came to England for her marriage to King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. It can be safely said that during all these years the Queen Mother has endeared herself to the whole British people throughout the Commonwealth. Her life is spent very quietly between Sandringham Palace, purchased by Edward VII in 1861, and Marlborough House, her London residence. She has never gone out of mourning for King Edward who died...
...King Albert of the Belgians visited Rome last year. This was the first visit of any Catholic monarch since 1870, when Pope Pius IX threatened a ban on Catholic monarchs who accepted the hospitality of the House of Savoy, which had usurped his temporal power...
Christopher Columbus IX, Duke of Veragua, direct descendant in the ninth generation of Explorer Columbus: " The Chicago Daily Tribune alleged that its correspondent in Madrid asked me for a message to America on Columbus Day, that I replied: 'I wonder what Grandfather Christopher would think of America today. If he could cross the Atlantic on the great Leviathan, see Panama and other wonders of the American continent, he certainly would be thrilled...