The Saints Speak of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception

Fri, 7 Dec 2018 15:10:32 -0500
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Dom Gueranger writes, "This truth of Mary's Immaculate Conception—which was revealed to the Apostles by the Divine Son of Mary, inherited by the Church, taught by the holy fathers, believed by each generation of the Christian people with an ever increasing explicitness—was implied in the very notion of a Mother of God. To believe that Mary was Mother of God, was implicitly to believe that she, on whom this sublime dignity was conferred, had never been defiled with the slightest stain of sin, and that God had bestowed upon her an absolute exemption from sin." Below are quotes by saints from the early Church, verifying that the truth of Mary's Immaculate Conception has been believed by each generation:

“He was the ark formed of incorruptible wood. For by this is signified that His tabernacle was exempt from putridity and corruption.” – St. Hippolytus (circa 235 A.D.)