Ad Caeli Reginam

On October 11, 1954, Pope Pius XII. the encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam ( Latin incipit; About the Queen of Heaven ), on the Queen of Heaven.

The Memorial

In 1954, Pope Pius XII. the Memorial Day "Mary, Queen of Heaven " (Latin Regina, Queen ') for the entire Church Roman Catholic one. At the end of " Marian Year" he had determined with the encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam as the deadline for these opportunities afforded Memorial Day May 31, the last day of the month of Mary. 1969 moved the Roman general calendar the festival on August 22, the Octave of the Assumption.

With this encyclical the royal dignity of Mary should be highlighted and the veneration of the Mother of God and the confidence to be multiplied to you. The Pope refers to the writings of numerous saints and two of his predecessor, Sixtus IV and Benedict XIV, who had also referred to Mary as the Queen of Heaven and Earth. The faithful are inspired to imitate the sublime virtues of Mary and praying to her to be promoted as Help of Christians persecuted and Mediatrix of peace for the world. Mary is the companion ( socia ) of God, because it is with God at the center of the Incarnation. She is the consort of the Son of God, as Eve was the companion of Adam.

"It is certain that Jesus Christ is the sole God and man in the full, true and absolute meaning king; but also takes Mary to his royal dignity part, though in a limited and analogous way, since she is the mother of Christ, who is God, and because it is added as a co-redeemer the works of the Divine Redeemer in his fight against the enemies and in his Triumph, which he wore over them all. "