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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Definition of the Immaculate Conception. The dcfiuitiou of the Immaculate Conception All Home ia en fete to-day; it is the day which has been so long looked forward to; the Immaculate Conception is to be defined; it is to-day as it was at Ephesus centuries ago. The Romans are prepared to...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Definition of the Immaculate Conception. The dcfiuitiou of the Immaculate Conception All Home ia en fete to-day; it is the day which has been so long looked forward to; the Immaculate Conception is to be defined; it is to-day as it was at Ephesus centuries ago. The Romans are prepared to welcome the definition of the Immaculate Concep tion, as the Ephesians were that of the maternity of the divine mother, with songs of gladness, illuminations, and all the possible demonstrations of their joy. Cardinals and Bishops have assembled from all quarters of the globe, in obedience to the summons of the Holy Father, to aid him by their delibera tions as to the manner and form in which the dogma is to be denned. Days have been spent, under the guidance of three of the most learned of the Cardinals, assisted by the most eminent theologians of the Eternal City, in framing the decree by which the Holy Father is to make known his definition to the Christian world. That basilica, where so many woudrous events connected with the history of mankind have taken place, is to be the scene of this mighty deed. Before the tomb of the Apostles the Holy Father is to pronounce that decree, which will go forth to all quarters of the universe. There has been much rain in Rome during the past week; but the morning has shone forth with all the brightness of an autumnal day, and the sky, which for the last week has been obscured by clouds, to-day puts on its brightest blue. Two hundred bishops and cardinals have assembled in the Sistine chapel, and there await the Holy Father. They have put on their vestments and form a noble spectacle. At the appointed time the procession is formed, and moves down the scala regia, those beautifully formed steps which lead from the Sistine chapel and the sal...