Excerpt from Rosa Mystica: The Fifteen Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary Other Joys, Sorrows and Glories of Mary, Illustrated With Copies of the Rosary Frescoes of Giovanni Di San Giovanni and Other Artists

Fifty years ago, Pope Pius IX., of holy memory, gloriously exercised his personal Infallibility, and imposed on the universal Church the obligation in future of holding as a doctrine of Faith the long-cherished belief that God has given to Mary the grace and glory of the Immaculate Conception. The subsequent Vatican Council affirmed that the right to such Infallibility was inherent in the Office of Supreme Pontiff, but without waiting for such a Decree on the part of a General Council, Pius IX. defined the Doctrine, and the children of the Church loved him all the more for the consolation he gave them by his sublime act.

This Year of Our Lord 1904 is, therefore, the Jubilee Year of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception. Leo XIII. had already given his instructions, and made known his will that the Jubilee should be celebrated with all solemnity. He was "prevented by death from remaining" to approve of and bless the execution of his pious project, but another Pius has been given by God to the Flock of Christ, and while "prayer is made without ceasing by the Church unto God for him" he will have the sweet joy and consolation of presiding over these Jubilee Celebrations.

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