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ACH147: In 1846, the bishops of the USA named the Blessed Mother under her title of Immaculate Conception as Patroness of the USA. Tom and Noëlle Crowe relate how devotion to Mary played a key role in the New World from 1492 and how that devotion led her patronage.

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• Our Lady as Patroness of the United States under her title of the Immaculate Conception – Catholic Philly
• CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Immaculate Conception
• Immaculate Conception | EWTN
• Immaculate Conception of Mary Patroness of the United States –Aleteia
• Concilia provincialia, Baltimori habita ab anno 1829 usque ad annum 1849 : Archdiocese of Baltimore (Md, Catholic Church, Province of Baltimore
• Patronages of the Immaculate Conception – Wikipedia

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