Three Popes’ Messages On the Immaculate Conception at the Spanish Steps
It has been a long-standing papal tradition that Popes pay homage to the Immaculate Conception at the foot of the Marian column close to the Spanish Steps in Rome. The statute of the Immaculate Conception is put on top of a 12-meter high column, dedicated on December 8, 1857, shortly after Pope Blessed Pius IX[…]