The Immaculate Conception, a solemnity celebrated on December 8, is the patronal feast of the United States. In 1854, Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration, Ineffabilis Deus (link al documento que está en ...

Historically, devotion to the Heart of Mary grew up in parallel, but at a lesser intensity than that of devotion to the Heart of Jesus, only starting to become more prominent during the time of St ...

Data Descriptors, Scientific Data's primary article type, describe datasets. These must be made available to editors and referees at the time of submission and be shared with the scientific community ...

Just like the development repositories, the VMR will have a release branch for every feature band (e.g. release/10.0.1xx). Similarly, VMR's main branch will follow default branches of product ...

"The Immaculate Conception" by Giuseppe and Andrea Orazi in the dome of the Church of Santa Maria dell'Orto, in Rome, Italy. (Shutterstock) On December 8, the Church celebrates the feast of the ...

Holiday marks the start of the Christmas season in Italy. Italy marks the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Catholic holy day, with a national public holiday on 8 December. This year the holiday ...

From rivers and floods to forests and fossil fuels, these books challenge human exceptionalism and trace how inequality, empire and modernity have reshaped the Earth – and our relationship with it ...