This Feast is celebrated seven days after the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady into Heaven and was transferred from the 31st of May to the 22nd of August. Pope Pius XII announced this on the 11th of October in 1954 when he presented his Papal Encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (To the Queen of Heaven) to the world.
In his encyclical he writes “Jesus is King throughout all eternity by nature and by right of conquest: through Him, with Him, and subordinate to Him, Mary is Queen by grace, by divine relationship, by right of conquest, and by singular choice of the Father. Mary deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely associated as the New Eve with Jesus’ redemptive work, because of her preeminent perfection and because of her intercessory power”.
Mary is called Queen of Heaven also because her Son Jesus, was Son of David through the lineage of St Joseph and heavenly King of the universe. In Israel tradition recognised the mother of the King as Queen of Israel. St. John Damascene wrote, “When she became Mother of the Creator, she truly became Queen of every creature.”
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