Pius XII wrote of Our Blessed Mother: “Let all Christians, therefore, glory in being subjects of the Virgin Mother of God, who, while wielding royal power, is on fire with a mother’s love.”
In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman liturgical calendar, May 31 is the feast of the Queenship of Mary. In the Novus Ordo calendar, this feast was transferred to mere memorial status on August 22, which is the anniversary of the 1485 Battle of Bosworth. In the Novus Ordo calendar, May 31 is the feast of the Visitation.
