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Dear Tom, Barbara Sella, a Toronto Ph.D., now teaching at the University of Richmond, has been working on the history of this feast. You might want to get in touch with her. Jim At 02:55 PM 9/8/98 -0400, you wrote: >General celebration of the feast of the Conception of Mary seems to have >been authorized late in the MA. What I read about the feast tags its >general celebration to Sixtus IV, after a failed effort by the Council of >Basel to define the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception following its >break with Eugenius IV. > >Tallon says in his book on the French at Trent that the French delegation >gave up its efforts to get a dogmatic pronouncement made by the council. > > >Tom Izbicki > > James A. Brundage History & Law University of Kansas <[log in to unmask]> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%