By Sydney Odman Assistant to the Editorial Director Netflix achieved yet another critical success with period drama The Crown, a biographical story of Queen Elizabeth II as she abruptly ascends to ...

To “decorate” it, he chose 12 brilliant “jewels,” six dazzling stars and six fragranced ... The prayer for the rose in Mary’s crown, includes this: “Heal my taste, that I may taste ...

and on her head a crown of 12 stars.” In Rethinking Mary in the New Testament, Sri plows what seems familiar ground to open up a new way of thinking about Our Lady and revealing how much of what ...

such as the image from the book of Revelation showing Mary with a crown of 12 stars. She represents the early church with the 12 tribes of Israel represented by the stars. There have been images ...