The four Marian antiphons are long hymns, not true antiphons but independent compositions especially noted for their beauty: the "Salve Regina" ("Hail, Holy Queen"), "Ave Regina caelorum" ("Hail, Queen of Heaven"), "Regina caeli, laetare" ("Queen of Heaven, Rejoice"), and "Alma Redemptoris Mater" ("Kindly Mother of the Redeemer").
Indeed, in the first half of the 20th century it was found as far north as Archangel, in Russia.In this section The other malaria Now you know Slowing down in old age Lidartector ReprintsVivax regina?A big part of the problem is knowing just how many people really are infected.
During the same period the enormous expansion of the cult of the Virgin left a notable mark upon hymnody, the early 11th century seeing the composition of Marian hymns, including such ubiquitous texts as "Salve Regina" ("Hail, Queen") and "Alma Redemptoris Mater" ("Sweet Mother of the Redeemer").
One of the few invertebrates in which the physiology of feeding behaviour has been extensively studied is the blowfly Phormia regina.
The Appian Way was celebrated by Horace and Statius, who called it longarum regina viarum, or "queen of long-distance roads".
The illustrated novel La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (2004; The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana) traces the efforts of a book dealer to reconstruct his life having suffered amnesia following a coma through reviewing literature and periodicals from his youth.
"Modernisation" would take the regal out of the regina.
To 29 June (020-7304 4000) There's still time to catch the Royal Ballet's best offering of the year so far: a pairing of Balanchine's abstract Ballo della regina with the world's oldest story ballet – the delicious La Sylphide, set in a Scottish glen.
The black blow fly (Phormia regina) is another widely distributed species with similar habits.
Earning the epithet regina maris ("queen of the sea"), it developed its own maritime code and coined its own money.
St. Joseph, the patron saint of Sicily, is also the patron saint of confectioners, and St. Joseph's Day, March 19, is a citywide holiday here, with home altars holding sweets like Mr. Brocato's cucidati, fig cookies sprinkled with rainbow nonpareils, and biscotti regina, coated with sesame seeds.
