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Rome Honors the Feast of the Immaculate Conception! 🇮🇹 Each year on December 8, Rome celebrates one of its most beloved traditions—the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. In Piazza di Spagna, Rome’s firefighters or the Vigili del Fuoco climb their ladder high above the crowd to place a wreath of flowers on the arm of the Virgin Mary, whose bronze statue stands atop the Column of the Immaculate Conception. This moving gesture of devotion dates back to 1857, when the monument was first erected t