March 24, Thursday

Fátima

 

09:00 a.m.

RECEPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS

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10:00 a.m.

OPENING SESSION

Bishop of Leiria- Fátima

Archbishop of Évora

Rector of the Shrine of Fatima

President of the Scientific Committee

President of the Organizing Committee

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Inaugural conference

The Portuguese contribution in the context of immaculate movements

Stefano Cechin, President of the Pontifical International Mariological Academy

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11:00 a.m.

 

FIRST SESSION:

​HISTORIOGRAPHY: STUDIES ON A GREATER THEME

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A bigger theme: historiography on the Immaculate Conception

Isabel Drumond Braga, 

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Immaculism, theology, culture and politics in the Ibero-American world

Francisco Javier Ramón Solans, University of Zaragoza

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La fièvre immaculiste dans la monarchie espagnole du Siècle d'Or

Bernard Vincent, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Paris 

 

Self-proposed interventions

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Tridentine and Marian Portugal is a king from Vila Viçosa

António Camões Gouveia, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences / Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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12:45 p.m.

Debate  

01:00 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

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03:00 p.m.

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SECOND SESSION:
BIBLICAL FUNDAMENTALS AND PARENETIC

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Mary in the Holy Scriptures

António Couto, Faculty of Theology of the Portuguese Catholic University

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Self-proposed interventions

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Our Lady of Conception in the parenetic of Vieira

José Eduardo Franco, Open University

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06:30 p.m.

Debate

 

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07:30 p.m.

Dinner

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09:30 p.m.

Cultural evening

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March 25, Friday

Fátima

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09:30 a.m.

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THIRD SESSION

INSTITUTIONAL, PLASTIC AND ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS

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The iconography of the Immaculate

Vítor Serrão, Art History Institute / Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon

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Nossa Senhora da Conceição, patron of the Royal Academy of History

Manuela Mendonça, Portuguese History Academy

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Self-proposed interventions

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The solemn coronations of the images of the Virgin Mary: Vila Viçosa, Sameiro and Fátima

Marco Daniel Duarte

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12:45 a.m.

Debate

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01:00 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

03:00 p.m.

 

FOURTH SESSION

MARIAN BRANDS IN PEOPLE CULTURE

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The strength of Mary in the History and Culture of Portugal

José Paulo Leite de Abreu

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Self-proposed interventions

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Maria in Portuguese Literature

Lecturer to be confirmed

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06:30 p.m.

Debate

07:00 p.m. 

Eucharistic celebration of the Annunciation of the Lord

HE presides the Archbishop of Évora, D. Francisco Senra Coelho

 

08:00 p.m.

Dinner

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09:30 p.m. 

Cultural Evening

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March 26, Saturday

Fátima

 

09:30 a.m.

FIFTH SESSION

POPULAR RELIGIOSITY, THEOLOGICAL SPEECHES AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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«What Mary?» (cf. Pope Francis). Readings of Mary's vision at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century

Carlos Azevedo, Pontifical Council for Culture (Vatican)

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Contemporary challenges to Marian shrines: devotion, pilgrimage and tourism

Carlos Cabecinhas, Sanctuary of Fátima

 

12:00 a.m.

Debate

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12:15 a.m.

 

FINAL SESSION AND CLOSING CONFERENCE

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Bishop of Leiria- Fátima

Archbishop of Évora

Rector of the Shrine of Fatima

President of the Scientific Committee

President of the Organizing Committee

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Closing conference

 

Title and speaker awaiting confirmation

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