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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 ...
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.
The cult of Mary was furthered by Queen Theodora in the 6th century. [282] [283] According to William E. Phipps, in the book Survivals of Roman Religion, [284] "Gordon Laing argues convincingly that the worship of Artemis as both virgin and mother at the grand Ephesian temple contributed to the veneration of Mary." [285]
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Michael Steffes of University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point notes that "'I syng of a mayden' is a very quiet and very beautiful meditation on the inward aspects of the Annunciation, on the immediate consequences of Mary's acceptance of Gabriel's message." [2] The concept of the choice of Mary is an important subtlety in the text. Derek Pearsall ...
The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Marian litany originally approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V.It is also known as the Litany of Loreto (Latin: Litaniae lauretanae), after its first-known place of origin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto (Italy), where its usage was recorded as early as 1558.