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TRANSLATION.

In thy Conception, Mary, thou wast Immaculate. Pray for us to the Eternal Father, whose only-begotten Son Jesus thou didst bear, conceived in thy womb by the Holy Ghost.

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INVOCATION OF THE MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY.

Mary is the name of her who is at once our tender Mother, our loving Mediatrix, the Stewardess of God's graces, the Queen of the Universe, and Mother of God. This name has many mystic meanings—as, Star of the Sea, light of the World, Princess; titles of glory to her, and of consolation to us. The name of Mary, then, ought to he ever in our hearts and often on our lips during life, and specially at the moment of our death. To animate the faithful often to invoke this name in union with the name of Jesus, Pope Sixtus V., in his Bull Reddituri, of July 11, 1587, granted many Indulgences, afterwards confirmed by Benedict XIII. See above, at page 32, Indulgences for the Most Holy Name of Jesus.

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PSALMS IN HONOUR OF HER MOST HOLY NAME.

Amongst the devout practices devised to honour the most holy name of Mary, our Mother and our Queen, one of the most ancient is that of saying Five Psalms whose initial letters compose her name. This devotion was known in Italy and France, and in other kingdoms also; and it has much more extensively circulated ever since the Venerable Pope Innocent XI., in 1084, established throughout the whole Catholic world the Feast of the Glorious Name of Mary, at the same time that he instituted the archconfraternity which bears this name as its title, having power to aggregate to itself other confraternities out of Rome; to all of whose mem-