With it being the feast of the Immaculate Conception, we wanted to share a few antique Marian chasubles that feature the Immaculate Conception (or at very least Marian imagery). In the past we've done this by showing some of the famed and ever popular Cerulean blue chasubles coming from the Spanish tradition (and we will give you one of these at the end of the article as a bonus as well) but today I thought we'd focus on the liturgical colour most of the Western church uses and associates with this feast: white.
Most of these examples here are modern, coming from the1800's, but such works were certainly not strictly restricted to that period of course; this was, however, a time when this theme was particularly popular given the formalization of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception that was made under the pontificate of Pius IX in the mid 1800's.
So with all that in mind, we'll simply invite you to enjoy these antique designs and the hopes they might be of some interest and inspiration on this particular feast.
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| Dated to the first half of the 19th cent. |
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| More generally Marian than specific to the Immaculate Conception, dated to ca. 1755 |
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| A very elegant chasuble in the Italian tradition, dated to the second half of the 19th cent. |
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| 19th cent. |
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