Biblical typology
Revelation 12:2–6
The woman and the child
2 And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in pain to be delivered.
3 And there was seen another sign in heaven. And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and on his heads seven diadems.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her, a thousand two hundred sixty days.
Douay–Rheims · Challoner revision · Apocalypse 12:2–6
Why this matters
The male child destined to rule the nations is commonly identified as the Messiah. The woman’s maternity supports a Marian dimension, while her wilderness story also evokes Israel and the Church. These dimensions should be read together.