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Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).
Santa Maria Antiqua church, Rome. Early Christian art shows Mary in an elevated position. She carries her divine son in her hands, or holds him. The earliest known Roman depiction of Santa Maria Regina depicting Mary as a queen dates to the 6th century and is found in the modest church of Santa Maria Antiqua built in the 5th century in the ...
Ephesus is a cultic centre of Mary, the site of the first church dedicated to her and the rumoured place of her death. Ephesus was previously a centre for worship of Artemis, a virgin goddess; the Temple of Artemis there is regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The cult of Mary was furthered by Queen Theodora in the 6th ...
The Scripture mentions five crowns that believers may receive in Heaven, one of which is the crown of life, awarded to "those who persevere under trials" (Revelation 2:10). Once Mary is recognized as a figure of the Church and the "exemplary realization" of the Church, [5] she anticipates this promise and is the first to be crowned. Her ...
Devotions to this title of Mary are found in the popular Catholic hymn, Hail Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star [10] and the ancient prayer Ave Maris Stella. The widely sung "Sicilian Mariners Hymn", O Sanctissima , [ 11 ] [ 12 ] also reflects this devotion, as do Tamil hymns.
The chapel at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, is also dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace. [6] St. Mary, Queen of Peace Basilica is the pro-cathedral of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum in Kerala, India. Queen of Peace Cemetery of the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre in Old Westbury, New York opened in ...
Luke 1:28, in which the Archangel Gabriel greets Mary with the words, "Hail Mary, full of grace", since Mary's bodily assumption is a natural consequence of being full of grace; 1 Corinthians 15 ( 1 Corinthians 15:23 ) and Matthew 27 ( Matthew 27:52–53 ), concerning the certainty of bodily resurrection for all who have faith in Jesus.
In Mary we see what God intends for his people as a whole. "She is given to us as a pledge and guarantee that God's plan in Christ has already been realized in a creature." [10] The Roman Breviary contains the Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which she is described as the new Eve: "Glorious are you, holy Mary, the new Eve. From you the new ...