January 1 in the twelve days of Christmas can focus on Mary. Oddly, Mary is not particularly present in the Christmas Carol tradition. This may have been because the popular Christmas songs came from the protestant traditions, and Mary was consciously (or unconsciously) not focused upon. Gabriel’s Song (The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came) was …

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There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue is an archaic text in its origin, sung here by Sting on his album If On A Winter’s Night…. The rose in question seems to be Mary, but the lyric is more of a ‘Mary Did You Know’ sort of Mary, rather than a Queen of Heaven one.