Since we are convinced, after long and serious reflection, that great good will accrue to the Church if this solidly established truth shines forth more clearly to all, like a luminous lamp raised aloft, by Our Apostolic authority We decree and establish the feast of Mary’s Queenship, which is to be celebrated every year in the whole world on the 31st of May. We likewise ordain that on the same day the consecration of the human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary be renewed, cherishing the hope that through such consecration a new era may begin, joyous in Christian peace and in the triumph of religion. (Pope Pius XII AD CAELI REGINAM)
¡Pius XII, pray for the Church!
¡Pray for your sucessor Benedict XVI!
[...] Hallowed Ground has a nice post on the history of the feast of the Queenship of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces – with a link to Pius XII’s proclamation. [...]
¡The then Mons. Montini was at the right hand of Pius XII! ¡What a puzzle, what a mistery! How could such a close collaborator of Pius XII become such an anti-thesis of Pius XII?
Very good eye Humboldt! That was Montini.
After all the Catholic Church 1958 was not the CPSU in 1985, Pius XII was not Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko, nor Mons. Montini was ever Mijail Gorbachev. ¡What a mystery!