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The 15 pages that link to Immaculate Conception, each with the reason it gives.

• Pope Pius IXRelated: Pius IX defined it as dogma in 1854.

• Mary, mother of JesusRelated: It is a distinctive Catholic teaching about Mary’s own beginning.

• Marian devotionRelated: The doctrine explains a distinctive basis for Mary’s holiness in Catholic teaching.

• Fall of ManRelated: The doctrine addresses whether the Fall’s inherited condition applies to Mary.

• Assumption of MaryRelated: Catholic teaching links this Marian dogma to the completion of Mary’s life in glory.

• Bartolomé Esteban MurilloRelated: Murillo’s many images of the doctrine helped establish its visual form in Spain.

• Duns ScotusRelated: Scotus offered a influential defense of the doctrine through the idea of Christ as a more perfect mediator.

• Saint AnneRelated: Debates about Mary’s conception often focused on Anne’s role as her mother.

• Sanctuary of Our Lady of LourdesRelated: The apparition’s reported self-identification echoed a doctrine Bernadette said she did not understand.

• Maximilian KolbeRelated: This doctrine became a central focus of Kolbe’s Marian devotion.