 The Queen of the World plane is blessed on its inaugural flight in 1982 by the Most Rev. Constanino Luna, D.D., International President of the World Apostolate of Fatima (The Blue Army) and the Most Rev. Stephen J. Kocisko, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholics of the United States assisted by His Excellency’s Auxiliary Bishop Pataki.  In his encyclical issued in 1954 on the Queenship of Mary, Pope Pius XII said, “ In this doctrine (and devotion of Our Lady’s Queenship) lies the world’s great hope for peace.” 