Queen of Heaven | |
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Queen of Heaven and Earth, Holy Queen | |
Venerated in | Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, some Lutheran churches, Eastern Orthodoxy |
Feast | 22 August (General Roman Calendar), 31 May (General Roman Calendar of 1960) |
Attributes | The Blessed Virgin Mary crowned by the Holy Trinity, crown of stars, flowers |
Patronage | Heaven, eternal salvation to humankind, redemption |
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Queen of Heaven (Latin: Regina Caeli) is a title given to the Virgin Mary, by Christians mainly of the Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, in Anglicanism,[1][2][3][4] Lutheranism,[5][6] and Eastern Orthodoxy. The title has long been a tradition, included in prayers and devotional literature and seen in Western art in the subject of the Coronation of the Virgin from the High Middle Ages, long before it was given a formal definition status by the Church.
The Catholic teaching on this subject is expressed in the papal encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, issued by Pope Pius XII in 1954. It states that Mary is called Queen of Heaven because her son, Jesus Christ, is the king of Israel and the heavenly king of the universe.[7] The Davidic tradition of Israel recognized the mother of the king as the queen mother of Israel.
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