"Hail, Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star" is a Marian hymn written by Father John Lingard, a Catholic priest and historian, in the 1700's. Loosely based on the medieval Latin plainchant Ave Maris Stella, the hymn is generally sung to the modified traditional English melody Stella published in 1851 by Henri Frederick Hemy. A ship was an early Christian symbol. The word "nave", used to describe the main body of a church, is from the medieval Latin word navis, meaning "ship", possibly with some reference to the "Ship of St Peter" or the Ark of Noah. Recorded live by the Sunday 7pm Choir at St. Francis de Sales Parish in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for listening and God bless!