The
most traditional biblical foundation is Revelation 12:1, in which Saint John sees
a glorious woman in Heaven, a symbol according to the greater part of the Tradition—both
of the Church and of Mary. (Mauro Gagliardi, Truth is a Synthesis: Catholic
Dogmatic Theology [Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2020], 509)
Today,
however, exegetes often see only an image of the heavenly Church in it; this is
an interpretation that seems to us to be reductive of the wide symbolic scope
of the text, which admits multiple levels (et-et) of reading. (Ibid.,
502)
