“Let Heaven sustain me in its embrace, because I am honored above it. For heaven was not Thy mother, but Thou hast made it Thy throne. How much more honorable and venerable than the throne of a king is her mother.”—St. Ephrem the Syrian (As quoted by Pope Pius XII, “Ad Caeli Reginam”, Encyclical, Oct. 11, 1954, Par. 10)