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Why Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became the patron saint of the US in the 1840s

Why Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became the patron saint of the US in the 1840s

Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.

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