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