The Crown of Twelve Stars
The woman “clothed with the sun … and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Revelation 12:1), seen as Mary.
“A great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Revelation 12:1). The Church has long seen in this woman both the people of God and Mary, Mother of the Messiah.
Twelve. The twelve stars recall the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve Apostles: Mary as Queen of the Church.
The Immaculate Conception. From the seventeenth century, painters such as Murillo showed the Immaculate Conception as the woman of Revelation: in white and blue, hands joined, crowned with stars and standing on the moon.
The Miraculous Medal. In 1830 Our Lady appeared to St Catherine Labouré in Paris. The back of the medal she asked for bears twelve stars around the letter M, the cross and the two Hearts.
The Assumption and the Queen of Heaven. A crown of stars marks Mary taken up body and soul into heaven and crowned as its Queen.
Also called: the halo of stars
Where you’ll see it
Hearts and the heavens
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A statue with the crown of twelve stars?
Every statue is made from scratch in our studio in Mangalore.