"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.
