The Societas Maria Regina Caeli’s emblem
The Societas Maria Regina Caeli’s emblem represents the Virgin Mary with a crown and halo. She is placed on a throne and is surrounded by the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Föreningen Maria Regina Caeli emblem This is shown by six doves enclosed in circles encircling her. A seventh dove is represented by the baby Jesus holding planet earth in his left hand and the right hand held out for blessing. The Virgin Mary has been entrusted with the virtues of grace and gifts. She has been blessed with a supernatural grace and possesses virtue of wisdom. She is full of grace, she is part of divine awareness, which also involves intellectual knowledge..
The image comes from the Cathedral of Chartres and is in a painted window from the 1400s.

The doctrine of the seven gifts
The doctrine of the seven gifts belong to the Christian Church's oldest educational content. Justin Martyr (100-163) stressed that man through these seven gifts could achieve a spiritual development. The doctrine of the gifts originate in Isaiah 11:1-3 " And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD. " Pope Gregory the Great (590-601) compared those gifts with a ladder with as many steps. St Augustine called Mary " the Scala Caeli, the ladder of heaven and " Scala Peccatorum, the ladder of sinners ." Virgin Mary was seen as the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in the Middle Ages and was depicted as crowned queen.

Chartes - The Virgin Mary pilgrimage
Chartres has been a site of pilgrimage since the Middle Ages and a holy place with legendary roots in the pre-Christian era. There was a sacred spring there even before the cathedral was built. It is also believed that the virgin Mary's veil, a revered relic from Constantinople, was offered to Chartres back in the ninth century. The Labyrinth in Chartres was also important. Sometimes this eleven-circuit labyrinth would serve as a substitute for an actual pilgrimage to Jerusalem and as a result came to be called the "Chemin de Jerusalem" or Road of Jerusalem. It could be walked as a pilgrimage and/or for repentance. When used for repentance the pilgrims would walk on their knees. The labyrinth center is Christ, the goal of the pilgrims trek.

Our Lady of Christendom and the restoration of faith.
The author Charles Péguy started a pilgrimage tradition to Chartres from Paris in 1912, Gradually increasing the number of followers from only a handful to 20000 in 1962. This pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres has become a tradition and takes place the first two weeks of May.
[Birgitta Löwendahl]