Virgin Mary
There is also another Queen of Heaven:
"The
Catholic teaching on this subject is expressed in the papal encyclical
Ad Caeli Reginam,[1] issued by Pope Pius XII. It states Mary is called
the Queen of Heaven because her Son, Jesus Christ, is the King of Israel
and heavenly King of the Universe. In the Hebrew tradition, the mother
of the king is the queen (see queen mother). Catholic dogma (Apostolic
Constitution Munificentissimus Deus) states that the Virgin Mary, having
completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul
into heavenly glory.
The title Queen of Heaven has long
been a Catholic 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
dogmatic definition status by the Church. For centuries, Catholics,
while reciting the Litany of Loreto were already invoking Mary as "Queen
of Heaven".
(wikipedia)
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