Recording in English by the Brébeuf Hymnal
Latin and Translations at Hymns and Carols of Christmas
English Translation and Background at Breviary Hymns
English Translation and Background at Hymnary.org
In 2021, the feast of the Immaculate Conception falls on the Second Wednesday of Advent. Please see the entry for this feast for additional musical options.
Modern Hagiography
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.
Lives of Saints by Francis Weninger.
Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.
Medieval Hagiography
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database
Art & Architecture
POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine
Modern Mariology
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.
Lives of Saints by Francis Weninger.
Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.
The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.
Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.
Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.
Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year by Henry Sebastian Bowden.
Our Lady’s Feasts by Sister Mary Jean Dorcy.
Sermons for Children’s Masses, According to the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year by Raphael Frassinetti.
Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays
The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.
Historical Tales and Legends by Miss Caddell.
Ineffabilis Deus – Papal Encyclical of 1854.
Medieval Mariology
Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English
Music
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Ave Maris Stella/Hail, Queen of Heaven – info
Tota pulchra es (Latin with English translation – Chant – Essay on mass composed by Robert Schumann – Offertory of Schumann, Mass in C Minor, Opus 147, Tota pulchra est of the Quatres Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens by Maurice Duruflé)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Pour la conception de la Vierge, “Conceptio tua Dei genitrix” H.313
Art & Architecture
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
The Visual Commentary on Scripture YouTube Video
This website presents a collection of many depictions of the Blessed Virgin as the Immaculate Conception. Scroll down past the first rows and look for names you may know – Murillo, El Greco, Zurbaran, Tiepolo, Poussin, Rubens, and Bougereau.
La Purisima: Images of the Immaculate Conception
Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate by Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua (more info here).
The Immaculate Conception by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (and a Preparatory Drawing)
Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. Jameson.
The Gospel in Art by Albert Bailey.
Sacred Symbols in Art by Elizabeth Edwards Goldsmith.
Devotions
Novena for the Immaculate Conception in the Raccolta, other prayers for the Immaculate Conception in the Raccolta
Litany of the Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Prayer by Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon.
Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.
Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year with an Appendix of Meditations for the Festivals of Various Saints by Augustin Maria Ilg.
Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon.
Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.
Sermons from the Latins by James J. Baxter (Benziger, 1902).
Heortology: A History Of The Christian Festivals From Their Origin To The Present Day by Heinrich Kellner.
Nihil sub sole novum 
