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| | Introduction to Marian Apparitions, the Bible and the Modern World |
 | | There is also, too, the factor of the great "Marian" Popes from the time of Pius IX and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, in 1854, and also Leo XIII, the Pope of the Rosary, and Pope St Pius X at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
 | | Similarly, Benedict XV and Pius XI advocated Marian devotion, as did Pius XII, the Pope of the dogma of the Assumption (1950), and the "Pope" of Fatima itself, particularly since he was consecrated bishop on the very day of the first apparition, 13 May 1917. |
 | | Thus Marian devotion generally, and the Marian apparitions in particular, even though they have been largely ignored by the secular world, have had a profound, though often hidden, effect on the Church, and so indirectly on society as a whole. |
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