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Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) Italian ecclesiastic, pope (1846-1878). Pius issued a decree propounding as a doctrine of the Church the Immaculate Conception of the blessed Virgin Mary.
E. A Duyckinck, ed. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America Vol II. (New York: Johnson, Wilson & Co., 1862) 558.
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