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  2. Revelation 12 - Wikipedia

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    Revelation 12:5: Revelation 2:26,27; 19:15. [9]The "woman" is traditionally believed to be the Blessed Virgin Mary whom the Early Church honored as the Queen of Heaven.Prior to the presentation of the woman, John saw a vision of the Ark of the Covenant in heaven.

  3. Woman of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    The woman's "male child" is a reference to Jesus (Revelation 12:5), since he is destined to "rule all nations with a rod of iron" (Revelation 12:5). The dragon trying to devour the woman's child at the moment of his birth (Revelation 12:4) is a reference to Herod the Great's attempt to kill the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:16). Through his death and ...

  4. Queen of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Queen of Heaven (Latin: Regina Caeli) is a title given by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy, ... a reference to Revelation 12. Statue by Attard, Malta.

  5. Titles of Mary, mother of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    "Queen of Heaven" Regina caeli, Regina coeli: As the mother of Jesus, who in mainstream Christianity is God and King of Heaven, multiple Christian denominations give her the title "Queen of Heaven". Mary is identified with the figure in Revelation 12:1; "Queen of all creation" Regina totius creati

  6. Coronation of the Virgin - Wikipedia

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    The belief in Mary as Queen of Heaven obtained the papal sanction of Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (English: 'Queenship of Mary in Heaven') of October 11, 1954. [1] The Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast every August 22, in place of the former octave day of the Assumption of Mary in 1969, a change made by Pope Paul VI.

  7. War in Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Several modern Bible-commentators view the "war in heaven" in Revelation 12:7–13 as an eschatological vision of the end of time or as a reference to spiritual warfare within the church, rather than (as in Milton's Paradise Lost) "the story of the origin of Satan/Lucifer as an angel who rebelled against God in primeval times."

  8. Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    By the 13th century, as Mariology was growing, Anthony of Padua had composed Mary Our Queen. [107] Titles continue to be interpreted, e.g. Queen of Heaven was further elaborated in 1954 in the papal encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam by pope Pius XII. [95] Among the most prominent Roman Catholic Marian titles are: [108] Mary, Mother of God

  9. Circle of stars - Wikipedia

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    Diego Velázquez's Immaculate Conception 1618.. The New Testament's Book of Revelation (12:1, 2 & 5) describes the Woman of the Apocalypse: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.