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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.

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