The Feast of the Immaculate Conception marks the day when Mary was conceived within Anne's womb. It is celebrated exactly nine months before the feast marking Mary's birth on September 8.

On Sept. 15, a Catholic shrine in a small hilltop town in Italy celebrates the local feast day of Our Lady of the Hill. The image of Our Lady of the Hill at the Shrine of La Madonna del Colle in ...

The image of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ will be kept for public display on this day. Catholicos Baselios Mar Thomas I will lead the ritual. The curtains will come down on the Feast on September 8.