John Paul II – Salvifici Doloris No. 25: Maria iuxta crucem (1984)
The text of no. 25 of the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris (John Paul II, 1984): Mary at the foot of the Cross as witness and singular…
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Paul VI – Mense Maio, Christi Matri Rosarii and Recurrens Mensis October: the Rosary for peace
The three brief Marian encyclicals of Paul VI (1965-1969): Mense Maio, Christi Matri Rosarii, and Recurrens Mensis October. The Rosary for…
John Paul II – Dives in Misericordia, no. 9: Mary, Mother of Mercy (1980)
The text of no. 9 of the encyclical Dives in Misericordia (John Paul II, 1980): Mary, Mother of Mercy, who experienced, cooperated with, and…
Saint John XXIII – the Mariology of the Good Pope: Mater et magistra, pacem in terris, aeterna dei
The Mariology of Saint John XXIII (1958-1963): the Marian texts of the encyclicals Mater et Magistra (1961), Pacem in Terris (1963), and…
Enchiridion Vaticanum – General Index of the Marian Documents of the Post-Conciliar Magisterium
General index of the Enchiridion Vaticanum (EDB Bologna): Marian documents of Vatican II and of the post-conciliar Magisterium from John XXIII…
Clement XI – Commissi Nobis (1708): the Feast of the Immaculate Conception made obligatory throughout the Church (Doctrina Pontificia IV, n. 204)
The Bull Commissi Nobis (Clement XI, December 6, 1708): the decision that made the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8 obligatory…
Pius IV and the Tridentine Profession of Faith – Bull Iniunctum Nobis (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 166-167)
The Bull Iniunctum Nobis (Pius IV, 1564) publishes the Tridentine Profession of Faith with an obligatory Marian clause: the veneration of Mary…
Honorius III, Gregory IX, and the First Documents on the Rosary (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 122-131)
The popes of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and the first pontifical documents on the Rosary: from Urban IV (1261) to the Second…
Leo XIII – Superiore Anno (1884): The Rosary as a Compendium of the Gospel (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 342-351)
The encyclical Superiore Anno (Leo XIII, 1884): the Rosary as a compendium of the Gospel and a prayer for social peace, with the three groups…
Stabat Mater – The Liturgical Sequence Approved by Pius IX (Doctrina Pontificia IV, n. 320)
The Stabat Mater and the 1876 decree of Pius IX approving it as the official liturgical sequence of the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. History…
Leo XIII – Octobri mense (1891): Mary, Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 372-388)
The encyclical Octobri mense (Leo XIII, 1891): the greatest Marian encyclical of the nineteenth century, with the doctrine of Mary’s…
Benedict XIII and Clement XII – the Rosary and Marian devotion in the eighteenth century (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 205-208)
The Marian documents of the popes Benedict XIII (a Dominican, the pope of the meditated Rosary) and Clement XII (1724-1740): the Rosary as a…
Leo XIII – Supremi apostolatus (1883): the first encyclical on the Rosary and the month of October (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 326-338).
The encyclical Supremi Apostolatus (Leo XIII, 1883): the inauguration of the month of October as the month of the Rosary, the argument of…
Boniface IX, Martin V, and Eugene IV – Mary in the Great Western Schism
The Marian documents of the popes of the Great Western Schism (1389-1447): Boniface IX, Martin V, and Eugene IV. Devotion to Mary as a thread…
The Council of Trent and the Marian Counter-Reformation – privileges, Queenship, and the cult of Mary (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 161-165)
The Marian texts of the Council of Trent (1545-1563): the exclusion of Mary from the decree on original sin, the singular privilege of grace…