Ad Caeli Reginam

Ad Caeli Reginam
Latin for 'To the Queen of Heavens'
Encyclical of Pope Pius XII
Coat of arms of Pope Pius XII
Signature date 11 October 1954
Number30 of 41 of the pontificate
Text
Botticelli, the coronation of the Virgin

Ad Caeli Reginam is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII, given at Rome, from St. Peter's Basilica, on the feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the eleventh day of October, 1954, towards the end of the Marian year, in the sixteenth year of his Pontificate. The encyclical is an important element of the Mariology of Pope Pius XII. It established the feast Queenship of Mary.


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