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CHRISTIANITY Queen of Heaven (Latin ''Regina Cæli'') is one of a number of titles used particularly in the Roman Catholic Church for Mary, The Mother Of Jesus . The title is with reference to the Catholic dogma that at the end of her earthly life, Mary was bodily Assumed into heaven, and is there honoured as Queen, for the sake of her Son. This follows the biblical precedent of ancient Israel, whose crown, it is held in Christianity, has passed to Jesus. Luke 1:32 ''He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.'' In the as the ''gebirah''. Since Jesus is heavenly king, of the lineage of David and Solomon, Mary becomes Queen Mother. The church also sees Mary crowned as queen in heaven in Revelation 12, verses 1-5. CHRISTIAN HYMN The Regina Cæli ('''Queen of Heaven''') is an anthem of the Roman Catholic Church which replaces the Angelus at Easter tide (from Holy Saturday until the Saturday after Pentecost); it is named for its opening words in Latin : Regina coeli laetare, Alleluia, Quia quem meruisti portare. Alleluia, Resurrexit, Sicut dixit, Alleluia. Ora pro nobis Deum. Alleluia :Queen of Heaven rejoice, :Alleluia; :For the Son thou wast privileged to bear, :Alleluia; :Is risen as He said, :Alleluia: :Pray for us to God, :Alleluia. Of unknown authorship, the anthem was in Franciscan use in the first half of the 13th Century . Together with three other Marian Anthems , it was incorporated in the Minorite Roman Curia Office, which the Franciscans soon popularized everywhere, and which by order of Pope Nicholas III ( 1277 - 1280 ) replaced all the older Breviaries in the churches of Rome. The Marian anthems run the gamut of medieval literary styles, from the classical Hexameter s of the ''Alma Redemptoris Mater'' through the richly-rhymed accentual rhythm and regular strophes of the ''Ave Regina Coelorum'', the irregular syntonic strophe of the "Regina Coeli", to the sonorous prose rhythms (with rhyming closes) of the ''Salve Regina''. "In the 16th century, the antiphons of our Lady were employed to replace the little office at all the hours" (Baudot, ''The Roman Breviary'', 1909, p. 71). The authorship of the ''Regina Cæli'' being unknown, a pious legend to connect it with ''). There are Plainsong melodies (a simple and an ornate form) associated with ''Regina Cæli'' the official or "typical" melody being found in the ''Vatican Antiphonary'', 1911, p. 126. The Antiphon al strophes of ''Regina Cæli'' were often set by polyphonic composers of the 16th century. There is a setting by the young Mozart , K. 127. FERTILE CRESCENT RELIGIONS Queen of Heaven is a natural title for the Great Goddess central to many religions of antiquity. In Sumer Inanna was hailed as "Queen of Heaven" in the 3rd millennium BCE. In Akkad to the north, she was worshipped later as Ishtar . In the Sumerian '' Descent Of Inanna '', when Inanna is challenged at the outermost gates of the underworld, she replies :'I am Inanna, Queen of Heaven, :On my way to the East.' Her cult was deeply embedded in Mesopotamia and among the Canaanites to the west. In the early 6th Century BCE, the neighbors of the Israelites still worshipped the Queen of Heaven, and the temptation for the Hebrews to follow her cult was apparently hard to resist. Jeremiah , writing ''ca'' 590-580, :"The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." (''Jeremiah'' 7:18) Jeremiah continued (44:25) :'Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.' REFERENCE ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', 1912. |
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