From the 16th century:

This is truly interesting.

Did not St. Thomas teach that the finitude of the material universe - that it had a beginning - is not a truth accessible to the unaided human intellect? That without Divine Revelation, it might be equally surmised that the universe is infinite?

Can not this icon and others like it be intended to signify the finitude of the material universe? And also the absolute transcendence of God? And also the location of Heaven as outside the material universe? That's why I asked about Heaven below. Where is Heaven? The iconography suggests it is outside the material universe. I wish I knew more theology right now. :)

P.S. My comment here can be applied to the other pics Lad has posted with Christ outside the globe.

Yes, that's the one!  Thank you.  It could be more clear than it is there.

I think we need to determine what is intended by the symbolism in these icons. I don't immediately sense that I am being schooled in cosmology. I sense that I am being schooled in theology. 

author of this fine article points out that by the 17th century ...

After the Galileo revolution, it starts to get replaced with this --


So it was only LATER that the "earth globe" replaces the original/traditional "snow globe" model.

Now this is seriously interesting!

But again, are we being schooled in cosmology or theology? 

Take Fr. Faber for example. Most unfortunately, he was a theologian who nevertheless got snookered by false science, and in his theological works he sometimes makes examples using false science. He does not intend to teach the false science, he intends to teach sound doctrine. But he inadvertently and indirectly disseminates an error through a misapprehension caused by common usage.

Likewise, as the fashions and the trends evolve, so do the symbols used by artists. But what do they intend to signify? 

Remember, this is the age of the explorers and cartographers. They were the influences of their day, and these artists created the memes. 
  
All this being said, I've gotten an education today in Catholic art, for which I thank you!

 And also the location of Heaven as outside the material universe? That's why I asked about Heaven below. Where is Heaven? The iconography suggests it is outside the material universe. I wish I knew more theology right now. :)

P.S. My comment here can be applied to the other pics Lad has posted with Christ outside the globe.

This is a question I have asked as well.  Is Heaven outside the material universe?

From what I can find it looks like the term "universe" refers more to what is described by Kabbala's Ein Sof--an ever expanding result of the Big Bang with no firmament enclosure.

Along these lines I have pondered the title, "Mary, Queen of the Universe".

As far as I can find, the traditional title is, "Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth".

Does anyone know of older churches under the "universe" title?

There are only a couple churches I can find with the name "Mary, Queen of the Universe" and they are new and modern.

The most notable one is in Orlando, FLA.  It serves Walt Disney World and Cape Canaveral.

Apparently Orlando is considered by some to be the largest diocese in the universe because it includes the moon. 
https://aleteia.org/2018/08/03/yes-the-moon-has-its-own-catholic-bishop/  

The church was designated a shrine by Benedict XVI

The use of the title "Mary, Queen of the Universe" is drawn from section 59 of Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church issued in 1964 by the Second Vatican Council, which stated: "Finally, the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all guilt of original sin, on the completion of her earthly sojourn, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen of the universe...
...This usage could reflect Orlando's connection to nearby Cape Canaveral, the liftoff point for America's crewed space program, as spaceflight was likely the inspiration for the term."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Mary,_Queen_of_the_Universe


The place looks creepy with an "Ascended Master" looking resurrecifix:








Mary and Jesus will be part of the fake alien New Age Ascended Masters show so I'm always looking out for that garbage.  You know, the pope says he is ready to baptize the aliens and as I posted the other day, even the Baltimore Catechism says there could be life on other planets out there in the "universe".


Does anybody know of any ancient churches under the title "Mary, Queen of the Universe" or is this title only from the last century?

I'm thinking about the speed at the edges of the universe, but can't quite get it.  I understand the concept, in that speed is somewhat relative to size ... to a point, but it seems to me that there is some notion of an absolute speed.  Is the perception of the effect of speed, however, related to whether there's any inertia that it encounters.  So if these outer bodies of the universe are going in circles, what is driving the motion?  Gravity?  I don't believe in gravity.  So what's causing them to turn?

I don't believe in gravity, and at this time I hold the dense physical part of the universe to be orders of magnitude smaller than scientists claim.

Take Fr. Faber for example. Most unfortunately, he was a theologian who nevertheless got snookered by false science, and in his theological works he sometimes makes examples using false science. He does not intend to teach the false science, he intends to teach sound doctrine. But he inadvertently and indirectly disseminates an error through a misapprehension caused by common usage.

Yes, he does. I recall him utilizing the "many worlds" heresy to speak of creatures living on other planets and whether or not they need their own Christ. If I can recall where, I'll quote it.

Yes, he does. I recall him utilizing the "many worlds" heresy to speak of creatures living on other planets and whether or not they need their own Christ. If I can recall where, I'll quote it.

Here it is, in a thread I apparently made over a year ago. From The Precious Blood, ch. I, p.11-12.

God made the angels and the stars. The starry world is an overwhelming thing to think of. Its distances are so vast that they frighten us. The number of its separate worlds is so enormous that it bewilders us. Imagine a ray of light, which travels one hundred and ninety-two thou-sand miles in a second; and yet there are stars whose light would take a million of years to reach the earth. We know of two hundred thousand stars down to the ninth magnitude. In one single cluster of stars, eighteen millions of stars have been discovered between the tenth and eleventh magnitudes. Of these clusters men have already discovered more than four thousand. Each of these stars is not a planet, like the earth; but a sun, like our sun, and perhaps with planets round it, like ourselves. Of these suns we know of some which are one hundred and forty-six times brighter than our sun. What an idea all this gives us of the grandeur and magnificence of God! Yet we know that all these stars were created for Jesus and because of Jesus. He is the head and firstborn of all creation. Mary’s Son is the king of the stars. His Precious Blood has something to do with all of them. Just as it merited graces for the angels, so does it merit blessings for the stars. If they have been inhabited before we were, or are inhabited now, or will at some future time begin to be inhabited, their inhabitants, whether fallen and re-deemed, or unfallen and so not meddling to be re-deemed, will owe immense things to the Precious Blood. Yet earth, our little humble earth, will always have the right to treat the Precious Blood with special endearments, because it is its native place. When the angels, as they range through space, see our little globe twinkling with its speck of coloured light, it is to them as the little Holy House in the hollow glen of Nazareth, more sacred and more glorious than the amplest places in starry space.

https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/fr-faber-on-the-cosmos-and-aliens/msg758059/#msg758059

When I have time, I think I'm going to throw together a thread showing how a belief in "many worlds" (i.e. planets, like earth) is heretical.