Description

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Marble Statue.
Dimensions: 60mm L x 70mm W x 270mm
Please note that our Marble Art Statues are made on order. There is a lead time of approximately 10 working days.

Our statues are priced for “Cast Marble White”.
All products are also available in Bronze, Brass, Silver or Hand Painted
at an additional cost – please email us orders@catholic-shop.co.za for a quotation on any one of the alternative options.

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is observed on December 8 in many Catholic countries as a holy day of obligation or patronal feast , and in some as a national public holiday.

The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the Catholic Church maintaining that from the moment when she was conceived in the womb, the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept free of original sin and was filled with the sanctifying grace normally conferred during baptism. 

It is one of the four dogmas in Roman Catholic Mariology . Mary is often called the  Immaculata (the Immaculate One), particularly in artistic and cultural contexts. 

The Immaculate Conception should not be confused with the perpetual virginity of Mary or the virgin birth of Jesus ; it refers to the conception of Mary by her mother, Saint Anne. Although the belief was widely held since at least Late Antiquity, the doctrine was not formally proclaimed until December 8, 1854, by Pope Pius IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus. It is not formal doctrine except in the Roman Catholic Church.