Many are the titles, by which Mary is the queen of angels. She is the Mother of Christ, who created the angels, “for in Him,” says St. Paul, “were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominations, or principalities or powers: all things were created by Him and in Him.” (Colos. i. 16.) She is, therefore, their Queen, according to the observation of St. John of Damascus. “Mary,” says he, “was made the queen of all creatures, because she was made the Mother of the Creator.” … She is, in fine, their queen, because her son Jesus Christ is the restorer not only of earth but heaven; according to the decree of God, who has willed “to re-establish all things in Christ, whether in heaven or on earth.” By Christ’s having redeemed man, those seats of glory, which were vacated by the disobedience of the fallen angels, are filled up; and the angels–whose charity is great in proportion as they approach God, Who is charity itself–rejoice at the elevation of every child of Adam, who, through His redeeming merits, is raised to the glory which their unfaithful companions forfeited. Mary is, then, the queen of angels.
