Archbishop Michael was ordained a priest in the Marian Year of 1954.

It is for this very reason that the Pope has proclaimed this Marian Year.

Spontaneous applause from the congregation in St. Peter's greeted the announcement of the special Marian year.

Highlighting this celebration was the Marian Year Rally held in September.

He announced the Marian Year in his encyclical letter Fulgens corona.

In 1953, the icon was carried through Rome to initiate the first Marian year in Church history.

Marian years are decided on and declared exclusively by the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

Another mass and congress was held at the center in 2005 to celebrate the National Eucharistic and Marian Year.

On New Year's Day, our Holy Father announced plans for a Marian Year.

John Paul proclaimed the Marian Year on Jan. 1, and Catholic dioceses around the world have been told to develop programs for it.

The Marian year was 1.88 Earth years long, so of course the first Mars-baby was not yet four years old, Mars-fashion.

The Philippines celebrated the 1954 Marian year by releasing a commemorative stamp featuring an image of the Immaculate Conception.

The only previous Marian Year was proclaimed by Pope Pius XII in 1954.

In 1987, Pope John Paul II initiated a Marian year in preparation of the forthcoming millennium.

"Back then, the Pope announced the first Marian year, which was a year of special devotion to Mary," Father McCann said.

In December 1954 The Irish Press sent her to Rome to write daily reports on the close of The Marian Year.

In both Marian years, Marian devotion, Marian pilgrimages and Marian meetings were promulgated.

Andrew's Parish and also because 1954 had been proclaimed a Marian Year by Pope Pius XII.

Fifty years later, he physically crowned this picture as part of the first Marian year in Church history, as he proclaimed the Queenship of Mary.

This was built in 1954, the Marian Year, and was recently refurbished as part of the work carried out by members of the local FAS scheme.

The proclamation of a Marian year in 1953-54 was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

Encyclical proclaiming a Marian Year to commemorate the centenary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

For the beginning of the Marian year, a large copy of the Madonna della Colonna was completed for outside Saint Peter's Square.

The "sighting" sparked a wave of similar claims around the country as people held vigils at other roadside grottoes which mostly sprang up during the Marian Year of 1953.

On 8 September 1953, the encyclical Fulgens corona announced a Marian year for 1954, the centennial of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.