Queen of the Apostles

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Mary, Queen of the Apostles, painting by Serafino Cesaretti , donated by Vinzenz Pallotti , today in the Chiesa di Santa Maria Regina Apostolorum in Rome

Queen of the Apostles , in Latin Regina Apostolorum , is one of the honorary titles of Mary , mother of Jesus , in the Catholic liturgy and piety. It is one of the invocations of Mary Queen of the Lauretan Litany .

To invoke Mary under this title means to call her to “apostolic zeal”; H. to ask for commitment to the transmission of the faith.

Mary, Queen of the Apostles , is the patron saint of the Association of the Catholic Apostolate founded by Vincent Pallotti . This celebrates the festival on the Saturday before Pentecost. The honorary title "Queen of the Apostles" was that of Pope Pius IX. preferred invocation of Mary.

Under the title Queen of the Apostles , Vincent Pallotti had Serafino Cesaretti paint a picture of Pentecost showing Mary with two other women and the apostles as they all received the Holy Spirit . He expresses that all believers - lay people and priests - are equally gifted in the spirit and sent to bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ. The original of the picture can be found in the Regina degli Apostoli church in Rome, Via Giuseppe Ferrari 1.

The festival day in the extraordinary rite is September 5th.

The main church of the cult is the Basilica of Santa Maria Regina degli Apostoli alla Montagnola in Rome, as well as the Roman titular church of Santa Maria Regina Apostolorum .

The religious order Societas Reginae Apostolorum has had this Marian title as its name and program since 1923 .

The Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum as a papal university was founded in 1993.

See also

literature

  • Andrzej Kazimierz Zielinski: Mary - Queen of the Apostles. The significance of Mary according to the writings of the Pallottine theologian Heinrich Maria Köster for the Catholic apostolate and the new evangelization in Latin America . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. [u. a.] 2000, ISBN 978-3-631-36854-1 (299 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text of the Lauretanic Litany on kirchenundkapellen.de, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Maria, Queen of the Apostles  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Paul Sisters, accessed on July 6, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.paulusschwestern.de  
  3. ↑ Veronika Seifert: Pius IX. - the Immaculata Pope. From Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti's devotion to Mary to the definition of the Immaculata dogma. V&R unipress, 2013, ISBN 9783847101857 , p. 135