{"id":83280,"date":"2026-06-04T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83280"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:16:04","slug":"why-mary-as-the-immaculate-conception-became-the-patron-saint-of-the-us-in-the-1840s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-mary-as-the-immaculate-conception-became-the-patron-saint-of-the-us-in-the-1840s\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mary, As The Immaculate Conception, Became The Patron Saint Of The US In The 1840s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Conversation:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/738527\/original\/file-20260528-69-78w3ul.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=237&amp;fit=clip\" alt=\"A painting in dark colors shows an elderly man in a dark robe with a large cross around his neck.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 years ago, in May 1846, Catholic priests and bishops named the Virgin Mary patroness of the United States of America \u2013 specifically, under her title as the Immaculate Conception, referring to the belief she was conceived without sin.<\/p>\n<p>John Carroll, who became the first American bishop in 1790,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/title\/1114103\">was devoted to Mary throughout his life<\/a>. In 1791, he and other American Catholic clergy consecrated the Diocese of Baltimore to Mary, asking her to \u201c[preserve] from all evil\u201d the people of the diocese.\u00a0 Half a century later, in 1846, a council of priests and bishops from across the country officially named Mary, under her title as the Immaculate Conception,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/catholicphilly.com\/2008\/12\/archbishop-chaput\/weekly-message\/our-lady-as-patroness-of-the-united-states-under-her-title-of-the-immaculate-conception\/\">the patroness of the entire United States<\/a>, asking her for \u201cthe aid of her prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"align-right zoomable\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">ll<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Conversation: Nearly 200 years ago, in May 1846, Catholic priests and bishops named the Virgin Mary patroness of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83281,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83280\/revisions\/83281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}