Mary God's masterpiece Author:The confraternity of Christian doctrine edition of the holy bible The radiant crown of glory, with which the most pure brow of the Virgin Mother was encircled by God, seems to Us to shine more brilliantly, as we recall to mind the day, on which, one hundred years ago, our predecessor of happy memory Pius 1X, surrounded by a vast retinue of Cardinals and Bishops, with infallible apostoli... more »c authority defined, pronounced and solemny sanctioned that the doctrine, which holds that the most blessed virgin Mary at the first moment of her conception was, preserved from all stains of original sin.« less