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  2. Gebirah - Wikipedia

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    Some scholars believe the gebirah held great power as counsel of the king. In 1 Kings 2:20, Solomon said to his mother Bathsheba, seated on a throne at his right, "Make your request, Mother, for I will not refuse you". The position of the queen mother was a privilege of the highest honour. It was the highest authority for a woman in Israel or ...

  3. Mary (name) - Wikipedia

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    Mary is among the top 100 names for baby girls born in Ireland, [3] common among Christians and popular among Protestants specifically, owing to Queen Mary II.Mary was the 179th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007.

  4. Queen mother - Wikipedia

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    The title "queen mother" evolved to distinguish a queen dowager from all other queens when she is also the mother of the reigning sovereign. Thus, upon the death of her husband, King George V, Queen Mary became queen mother, retaining the status throughout the reigns of her sons, Edward VIII and George VI.

  5. Titles of Mary, mother of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).

  6. Ad Caeli Reginam - Wikipedia

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    Botticelli, the coronation of the Virgin. Ad Caeli Reginam is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII, given at Rome, from St. Peter's Basilica, on the feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the eleventh day of October, 1954, towards the end of the Marian year, in the sixteenth year of his Pontificate.

  7. Panagia - Wikipedia

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    13th-century Great Panagia from Yaroslavl.. Panagia (Greek: Παναγία, fem. of panágios, pan-+ hágios, the All-Holy, or the Most Holy; pronounced Greek pronunciation:) (also transliterated Panaghia or Panayia), in Medieval and Modern Greek, is one of the titles of Mary, mother of God, used especially in Orthodox Christianity and Eastern Catholicism.

  8. Theotokos - Wikipedia

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    The title of Mother of God (Greek: Μήτηρ (τοῦ) Θεοῦ) or Mother of Incarnate God, abbreviated ΜΡ ΘΥ (the first and last letter of main two words in Greek), is most often used in English, largely due to the lack of a satisfactory equivalent of the Greek τόκος. For the same reason, the title is often left untranslated, as ...

  9. British queen mothers - Wikipedia

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    She is the mother of the current monarch. She is a queen dowager, i.e. the widow of a king. Queen mother does not mean mother of the Queen; it applies whether the current monarch is queen or king. As a queen dowager, a queen mother assumes the style of "Her Majesty Queen [first name]" upon her husband’s death.