Congregation of the Immaculate Conception is the name of six Catholic Congregations:
Read more about Congregation Of The Immaculate Conception: Order of The Immaculate Conception of Our Lady (The Conceptionists), Mission Priests of The Immaculate Conception (usually Called Missionaries of Rennes), Servites of The Immaculate Conception, Sisters of Providence of The Immaculate Conception, Sisters of The Immaculate Conception (France), Sisters of The Immaculate Conception (Louisiana)
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“In 1862 the congregation of the church forwarded the church bell to General Beauregard to be melted into cannon, hoping that its gentle tones, that have so often called us to the House of God, may be transmuted into wars resounding rhyme to repel the ruthless invader from the beautiful land God, in his goodness, has given us.”
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“This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
oerhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with
golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave
oerhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with
golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)