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From: Carol Bateson <bateson@almaak.usc.edu>
Subject: Re: immaculate conception

There is a wonderful book on the construction of St. Anne imagery and
biography that is independent of any mention in the four canonical gospels.
The book is called "Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late
Medieval Society".  It is edited by Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn.
It is published by the University of Georgia.

Carol Bateson
USC



>Rainer Thiel wrote:
>>
>> At 22:11 Uhr +0100 on 28.01.1999, J.F. Gannon wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know any references but 'immaculate conception' is used in
>> > reference to Mary's conception in Elizabeth's wonb, not Jesus'
>> > conception in Mary's.
>>
>> Yes indeed. Except that the name the tradition gives to Mary's mother is
>> Anna, not Elizabeth. For anyone interested, the
>>
>> Catechismus Catholicae Ecclesiae, Citta' del Vaticano: Libreria
>>      editrice Vaticana, 1997
>>
>> states par. 491:
>>
>> <<
>> Saeculorum decursu, Ecclesia conscia facta est Mariam, a Deo
>> <<gratia repletam>>,[139] inde a sua conceptione esse redemptam. Immacula-
>> tae Conceptionis dogma, anno 1854 a Summo Pontifice Pio IX procla-
>> matum, hoc confitetur:
>>
>>      <<beatissimam Virginem Mariam in primo instanti suae conceptionis
>>      fuisse singulari omnipotentis Dei gratia et privilegio, intuitu
>>meritorum
>>      Christi Iesu Salvatoris humani generis, ab omni originalis culpae labe
>>      praeservatam immunem>>.[140]
>>
>> [139] cf. Lc 1, 28.
>> [140] Pius IX, Bulla ~Ineffabilis Deus~: DS 2803.
>> >>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>It does, and I am duly chastened.  I must have mixed up Mary's mother Ann
>>with her cousin--I hope I have it right this time--Elizabeth, the mother
>>of John the Baptist.
>
>JFG



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