Paulo III e as festas marianas do breviário de Quiñones – hinos a Maria (Doctrina pontifical IV, nn. 152-160)

Paul III and the Marian feasts of the Breviary of Quiñones – hymns to Mary (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 152-160)

The Marian documents of Paul III (1534-1549): the approval of the Breviarium of Quiñones with renewed Marian feasts and three beautiful hymns…

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Pio IX – o caminho para a ineffabilis Deus (1846-1854) – documentos preparatorios (Doctrina pontificia IV, nn. 258-268)

Pius IX – The Road to Ineffabilis Deus (1846-1854) – Preparatory Documents (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 258-268)

The documents of Pius IX before Ineffabilis Deus (1846-1854): the encyclical Ubi primum with its universal consultation of the bishops, the…

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Leão XIII – o papa do rosário: treze encíclicas marianas (Doctrina pontifical IV, nn. 323-480)

Leo XIII and the Rosary: The Eleven Encyclicals from 1883 to 1898

The sixty-six Marian documents of Leo XIII (1878-1903): the thirteen encyclicals on the Rosary, the month of October, the doctrine of…

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Pio VIII e Gregório XVI – prelúdio à Imaculada Conceição (Doctrina pontifícia IV, nn. 254-257)

Pius VIII and Gregory XVI – Prelude to the Immaculate Conception (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 254-257)

The pontificates of Pius VIII and Gregory XVI (1829-1846): the immediate prelude to the definition of the Immaculate Conception, with documents…

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Pio VII e Leão XII – mariologia na restauração pós-Napoleónica

Pius VII and Leo XII – Mariology in the Post-Napoleonic Restoration

The pontificates of Pius VII and Leo XII in the post-Napoleonic Restoration: seventeen Marian documents of Pius VII that rebuilt devotion to…

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Bento XIV e a bula gloriosae dominae (1748) – Maria medianeira de todas as graças (Doctrina pontificia IV, nn. 209-220)

Benedict XIV and the Bull Gloriosae Dominae (1748) – Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 209-220)

The golden Bull Gloriosae Dominae (Benedict XIV, 1748): the Marian summa of the eighteenth century, with the doctrine of Mary’s universal…

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Clemente XIII, XIV e Pio VI – mariologia no iluminismo e revolução francesa (Doctrina pontifical IV, nn. 221-231)

Clement XIII, XIV, and Pius VI – Mariology in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 221-231)

The popes of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Clement XIII, Clement XIV, and Pius VI defend Marian devotion against the…

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Urbano VIII, Inocêncio X e Alexandre VII – realeza de Maria e Imaculada

Urban VIII, Innocent X, and Alexander VII – Queenship of Mary and the Immaculate Conception

Popes Urban VIII, Innocent X, and Alexander VII in the 17th century: the doctrine of Mary’s Queenship, the fight against Jansenism, and the…

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Clemente IX até Clemente XI – rosário, Imaculada e devoção mariana (Doctrina pontifical IV, nn. 194-204)

Clement IX to Clement XI – the Rosary, the Immaculate Conception, and Marian devotion (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 194-204)

From Clement IX to Clement XI (1667-1721): the Baroque popes and the fight against Jansenism, with documents on the Rosary, the Immaculate…

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Sixto V, Clemente VIII e Paulo V – liturgia mariana pós-Tridentina (Doctrina pontifícia IV, nn. 176-183)

Sixtus V, Clement VIII, and Paul V – post-Tridentine Marian liturgy (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 176-183)

The popes Sixtus V, Clement VIII, and Paul V consolidate the post-Tridentine Marian liturgy: feasts of Mary, confraternities of the Rosary, and…

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Gregório XIII e o rosário universal – monet apostolus (Doctrina pontificia IV, nn. 171-175)

Gregory XIII and the universal Rosary – Monet Apostolus (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 171-175)

The documents of Gregory XIII (1572-1585) that consolidated the Rosary as a universal devotion: the Bull "Monet Apostolus" (1573), the…

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Alexandre VII – sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum e a Imaculada Conceição (Doctrina pontificia IV, nn. 190-193)

Alexander VII – Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum and the Immaculate Conception (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 190-193)

The Apostolic Constitution Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum (Alexander VII, December 8, 1661): the decisive milestone between Sixtus IV and Pius…

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Papas do século XIII-XV: rosário, escapulário e Imaculada Conceição (Doctrina pontificia IV, nn. 122-143)

Popes of the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries: rosary, scapular, and the Immaculate Conception (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 122-143)

From Innocent IV to the Council of Florence: the birth of the Rosary, the Carmelite Scapular, the controversy over the Immaculate Conception…

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Pio V, a bula Consueverunt (1569) e Lepanto

Saint Pius V and the Rosary of Lepanto – Consueverunt Romani Pontifices (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 168-170)

The three Marian documents of Saint Pius V: the magna carta of the Rosary (1569), the Battle of Lepanto (1571), and the institution of the…

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São Gregório II, III e concílio niceu II – culto de Maria e imagens (Doctrina pontifícia IV, nn. 62-97)

Saint Gregory II, Gregory III and the Second Council of Nicaea – the veneration of Mary and images (Doctrina Pontificia IV, nn. 62-97)

Popes Gregory II and Gregory III and the Second Council of Nicaea (787) defend the legitimate veneration of images of Mary, distinguishing…

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