In Christian theology, original sin is the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which they inherit from the Fall of Adam and Eve, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distort
Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve (The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens)
Paul the Apostle (c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD), early Christian evangelist whose writings are taken as foundational for the doctrine of original sin.
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) wrote that original sin is transmitted by concupiscence and enfeebles freedom of the will without destroying it.
Illuminated parchment, Spain, c. 950–955 AD, depicting the Fall of Man, cause of original sin
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Debated by mediev
Original sin
…of his hereditary evil, but only on account of the actual evils [that] he himself has committed. Although primarily associated with Catholicism, the Immaculate Conception (the doctrine that Mary was conceived without original sin) is confessed in some form in several major Christian denominations. The Catholic doctrine…
The Immaculate Conception (1767–1769) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Altar of the Immaculata by Joseph Lusenberg, 1876, representing Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, at Saint Antony's Church, Urtijëi, Italy
Our Lady of Lourdes's 9th apparition, 25 February 1858, by Virgilio Tojett (1877), after Bernadette Soubirous' description. Soubirous claimed the Lady identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".
The procession of the Quadrittu of the Immaculate Conception taken on December 7 in Saponara, Sicily