The canonical Scriptures make no mention of the birth or infancy of Mary, and the devotion relies primary on Sacred Tradition and private revelation.

Liturgical feasts relating to Mary's infancy and childhood include: Various images of the Divine Infantess have been produced and crowned: Most famously the Maria Bambina of Milan and the Divina Infantita of Mexico.

[4] It is also generally held[5] by Theologians that she had free will and rational thought, through infused knowledge, from "the first instant of her conception,"[6] worshipping and loving God in her mother's womb and as an infant and child.

"[7] Devotion to the Infant Mary in Italy, called Maria Bambina, can be traced back to at least 1007 AD,[8] in the city of Milan.

In the early 18th century, devotion to Maria Bambina experienced a revival due to the donation of a wax simulacrum of the Infant Mary by Sister Isabella Chiara Fornari, a Franciscan from Todi.

In 1904, the image was ceremoniously crowned with Papal approval by Cardinal Ferrari, contributing to the spread of devotion to the Infant Mary from Milan throughout Italy.

[14] During the feast of the Epiphany Conceptionist Sister Magdalena de San José was praying before the manger of the infant Jesus, and asked herself.

[15] And Magdalena heard her say to her: I want to be honored in my childhood, since it is a very forgotten devotion, and I will grant all the graces that are asked of me under this invocation and this image After this Magdalena dreamed of the Infant Mary two times, moved by such an inexplicable events she began to dedicate herself to spreading devotion to the Infant Mary as "Divina Infantita," or Divine Infantess.

Being so zealous for this devotion, she asked permission from her superior, Mother Guadalupe de San Lorenzo, to make a title and image of the apparition she had witnessed and thus fulfill the desire of Infant Mary.