Saturday, August 23, 2014

St. John Damascene: Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"ASSUREDLY, she who played the part of the Creator's servant and mother is in all strictness and truth in reality God's Mother and Lady and Queen over all created things."

~St. John Damascene: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, 4, 14.

Coronation of the Virgin (Cell 9), by Fra Angelico.
Fresco, 1440-42; Convento di San Marco, Florence.

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