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_005195593	Catholic Church. Pope (1939-1958 : Pius XII)	The Lourdes pilgrimage : encyclical of His Holiness Pope Pius XII issued on the centenary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes, July 2, 1957.	1957		.txt	text/plain	5316	246	69	“Pius IX had hardly defined it to be of Catholic Faith that Mary was from her very origin exempt from sin, when the Virgin herself began operating wonders at Lourdes” (Ency. In it We had in mind to evoke the “singular merits which France has acquired throughout the centuries in the progress of the Catholic faith” and for this reason “We turned Our mind and Our heart toward Lourdes where, four years after the definition of the dogma, the Immacu- late Virgin herself gave supernatural confirmation to the declaration of the Supreme Teacher through apparitions, conversations and miracles” (Apostolic Constitution Om- nium Ecclesiarum, the Mission of France, Aug. 15, 1954: A.A.S. XLVI, 1954, p. 567). 69.	cache/_005195593.txt	txt/_005195593.txt