Stella Maris

Stella Maris may refer to:

Astronomy

• Polaris
• Pole star

Eastern Christian or Roman Catholic venerational themes

• Our Lady, Star of the Sea
• Blessed Virgin Mary, AKA Mary, mother of Jesus
• Eponymous religious institutions:
  • Stella Maris, or The Apostleship of the Sea, welfare organisation for seafarers
  • Stella Maris Church, Sliema, Malta
  • Stella Maris College (disambiguation)
  • Stella Maris High School, Queens, New York
  • Stella Maris Hospice, a large nursing home complex in Timonium, Maryland
  • Stella Maris Monastery, a Carmelite monastery in Haifa, Israel
  • Stella Maris School, a school in Stockport, England
  • Stella Maris Catholic Primary School, a school in Park Grove, Tasmania, Australia
  • Stella Maris Polytechnic, a college in Monrovia, Liberia

Other places

• Stella Maris Light, lighthouse in Haifa, Israel
• Stella Maris (Mar del Plata), neighborhood in Mar del Plata, Argentina
• Stella Maris (Salvador), neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil
• Stella Maris, Darwin, historical site in Darwin, Australia
• Stella Maris, Apartment complex, South Africa

Popular Culture

• Sport
  • ITC Stella Maris, tennis complex in Umag, Croatia
  • Stella Maris F.C., Republic of Ireland schoolboy football club
• Titled works:
  • Books:
    • Stella Maris, book character from The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
  • Films:
    • Stella Maris (1918 film), with Mary Pickford
    • Stella Maris (1925 film), remake with Mary Philbin
  • Musical works:
    • Stella Maris (1987), album by The Albion Band
    • Songs:
      • "Stella Maris", by Einstürzende Neubauten from the album Ende Neu
      • "Stella Maris", from Destroyed (Moby album)
      • "Stella Maris", by Boris Grebenshchikov on album Salt
    • "Stella Maris", for concert band by Samuel Hazo
• Fictional vehicles:
  • "Stella Maris", mega-yacht owned by Bill Spencer, Jr. on American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
  • "Stella Maris", science fiction spacecraft in The Sparrow (novel) by Mary Doria Russell

See also

• Star of the Sea (disambiguation)
• Star of the Sea Church (disambiguation)
• "Ave Maris Stella", Latin hymn re Virgin Mary
• ST Stella Maris (1882), steam tug in Halifax Explosion of 1917