01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes - 116

OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, MEXICO, CA. 1900. 

Oil on abalone shell

18 x 14 cm

Private collection

In Catholic teaching, the Immaculate Conception refers to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Because she was the vessel that would bear the Son of God, she had to be without sin. Her conception was "immaculate" in the sense that her soul never had the stain of original sin that everyone else is born with.


The term does not refer to the conception or birth of Jesus. That is a misunderstanding you might come across in popular culture. More on the immaculate conception 

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