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The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, are a Benedictine order of nuns founded by Sr. Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, in Gower, Missouri. [1] [2] The nuns are also choral singers, and their first two albums of recorded chants and hymns reached number one on the classical traditional Billboard charts. They were thereafter named Billboard ...
The Regina Caeli("Queen of Heaven") is an anthem of the Catholic Churchwhich replaces the Angelusduring Eastertide, the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.[24] It is named for its opening wordsin Latin. Of unknown authorship, the anthem has been traced back to the twelfth century.
Catholic. Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB (born Elisabeth Lancaster, later taking the religious name Mary Wilhelmina of the Most Holy Rosary; April 13, 1924 – May 29, 2019), was an African-American nun from rural Missouri who founded the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. [1] [2] Her remains were discovered as possibly incorrupt in May 2023.
t. e. " Ave Regina caelorum " is one of the Marian antiphons said or sung in the Liturgy of the Hours at the close of compline. In the Roman Breviary as revised by Pope Pius V in 1569 it was assigned for this use from compline of 2 February until compline of Wednesday of Holy Week. Since the revision of the Liturgy of the Hours in 1969, the ...
Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [6] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto.
The cathedral is named in honor of the Virgin Mary under the patronal title of "Our Lady of the Angels", echoing the full name of the original settlement of Los Angeles ( Spanish: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, or "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels"). [4] The cathedral is widely known for enshrining the relics ...
Mary crowned in Heaven by Jesus or jointly with God the Father, surrounded by Cherubim and/or Saints. A Baroque version by Rubens, c. 1625. The Coronation of the Virgin or Coronation of Mary is a subject in Christian art, especially popular in Italy in the 13th to 15th centuries, but continuing in popularity until the 18th century and beyond.
The idea of Mary as a guiding star for seafarers has led to devotion to Our Lady, Star of the Sea in many Catholic coastal and fishing communities. Numerous churches, schools and colleges are dedicated to "Stella Maris, Our Lady Star of the Sea," or "Mary, Star of the Sea."