Marian Year
...e people may be increased and their devotion to the Virgin Mother of God become daily more inflamed.” Dioceses around the world were to make use of religious, cultural, artistic, and social activities as a means of stimulating religious life. Philly honors Mary The Archdiocese of Philadelphia had numerous events
Marian Year of 1954
...flection at the Shrine of our Lady of Divine Love in Rome, the Holy Father commented that "The Marian Year should especially stimulate us to commit ourselves to the full maturity of the fruits of the recent council (the Second Vatican Council), which has been for our century a kind