Coronation
On September 11, 1952, during the festivities of the three hundredth anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin of Coromoto, Pope Pius XII ordered her to be canonically crowned. Since then, the faith and devotion to the Blessed Virgin is celebrated on September 8, the day of her apparition and on September 11, the day of her coronation.
The canonical coronation is one of the Catholic liturgical rites, instituted to highlight the devotion for a Marian devotion.
For a Canonical Coronation to take place, it is necessary to go through a process in which it is necessary to demonstrate that a concrete image receives a cult that has moved for many years a large group of people to venerate in a sincere way the Mother of God through that image. Upon demonstrating this, the ecclesiastical authority determines to crown it solemnly.
By crowning the image of the Virgin, it is proclaimed:
The principal foundation of Mary's reign as Queen of the Universe is her divine maternity, which unites her indissolubly with her divine Son universal King. She is the Queen Mother. In Guanare she manifested herself as the Queen Mother with the Son also crowned and accepted to be called by the name of the cacique, of the chief of the family to whom she was appearing, whom they called Coromoto, because this name means the one who stops the storm.
To crown the Virgin is to proclaim that Mary is also Queen of the Universe also by right of conquest, as Co-redemptrix of humanity.
It indicates that Mary's power as queen is limited and relative. It is neither total nor absolute like that of her Son Jesus Christ.
It indicates that Mary has the triple legislative and judicial power in the kingdom of Christ, which is eternal: it is the kingdom of truth and life, of holiness, grace, justice, love and peace.
Mary began to be queen at the very moment she conceived Jesus Christ King by the Holy Spirit; she reaffirmed her reign by right of conquest with her compassion at the foot of the cross of Jesus; she exercised it over the primitive Church, over the apostles and first disciples of the Lord, and she continues and will continue to exercise it eternally in heaven over all created beings.
On September 11 is celebrated the day of the coronation of the Virgin Mary by a representative of Pope Pius XII in 1952, let us remember that She appeared already crowned as Queen Mother with her Son Jesus crowned. And Pope John Paul II placed her third crown on January 27, 1985.
In the year 2002 the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference decreed as "Jubilee Year Coromotano" on the 50th anniversary of her canonical coronation.
The invitation is to consecrate ourselves to the immaculate heart of the Virgin Mary because all Venezuelans honor and venerate the apparition of the Virgin of Coromoto.