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(Mary, Queen of May, we come to greet you. O dear donor of joy, look at us at your feet.) [11] Another similar song greets Mary, the queen of May, who is greeted by the month of May. [12] Another well-known Marian "Queen of May" song ends with the words: O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today! Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May.
A May Queen of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada circa 1877. In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season. The May Queen is a girl who rides or walks at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations.
"Bring Flowers of the Rarest" (also known as the Fairest) is a Marian hymn written by Mary E. Walsh. It was published as the "Crowning Hymn" in the Wreath of Mary 1871/1883 and later in St. Basil's Hymnal (1889). [citation needed] The hymn is frequently sung during a May Crowning service, one of several May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary ...
The work has been described by Laura Saetveit Miles, a University of Bergen Professor of medieval literature, as "one of the most admired fifteenth-century Middle English lyrics [which] offers, within a deceptively simple form, an extremely delicate and haunting presentation of Mary (the 'mayden / þat is makeles') and her conception of Christ ('here sone')". [1]
Mary’s decoded letters, which were mostly addressed to the French ambassador to England, discuss a lot of subjects, from the conditions of her confinement to the politics of the day.
Marian litanies are numerous in the Eastern church and may cover a multitude of themes, some dogmatic, others of moral and patriotic character. In the liturgy of the Western Church the word litany is derived from the Latin litania , meaning prayer of invocation or intercession.
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