Answer: Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception is a congregation of priests and brothers living in common according to the Rule of Saint Augustine. They are devoted to the Blessed Mother Mary, in the Immaculate Conception.

Adrien Gréa established the congregation with the authorization of Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII between 1870-1888. One of Gréa's primary purposes was to create a communal life for priests who also exercised pastoral care as secular clergy, thus combating the loneliness sometimes encountered in priestly life.

The stamp below consists of the Congregation's coat of arms: a lamb (representing Christ), a rock (the Church) from which four springs emerge representing the four evangelists, whose doctrine irrigates the world. A lily representing the purity of the Virgin Mary completes the design.

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Congregation of Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception
150th Anniversary of the Founding
1758 (2021)