Defending the Immaculate Conception

• The Friars Minor Were Defenders of the Immaculate Conception as Early as the Middle Ages
• A Revelation on the Immaculate Conception of Mary to a Capuchin Friar
• St. Francis of Assisi communicated to his Order love for the Immaculate Conception together with that of holy poverty
• St. Francis instituted the celebration of a Mass each Saturday in honor of the Immaculate Conception