I think it's beyond doubt that the woman is Mary, the Mother of Christ, and therefore the Mother of God.
She's been turning up on regular occasions. This is a list of approved apparitions, with notes about some non-approved apparitions. Just because someone states they saw Mary in their corn flakes this morning doesn't mean the Church is going to fall over itself to approve it. The Church goes to a lot of trouble before approving an apparition.
List of Marian apparitions - Wikipedia
If you look at the dates,
they seem to be getting more and more frequent.
At Fatima in 1917 in Portugal for example, when World War I was at its height, there were reports of mocking atheists terrified out of their wits.
Bearing in mind the recent resurgence of Islam, there may have also been another reason why she chose a town called Fatima, as in this article by Bishop Fulton Sheen -
Mary and the Moslems | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen | From "The World's First Love" | Ignatius Insight
That apparition featured the sun, in no uncertain terms viz. "...
a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars...". To me the "twelve stars" was a reference to the the 12 disciples,
one of whom wrote Revelation.
There were 3 miracles, with 70,000 witnesses.
1. The "dancing sun" although to those who were there it was more like a "terrifying sun" seeming to be going to crash onto the earth and destroy it, again and again.
2. 70.000 people stared at the sun for a good 10 minutes, with no reports of eye damage. Normally 10 seconds is about the "safe" limit, and I wouldn't even like to try that. They were miraculously protected.
3. It had been raining for hours, and the ground and people were wet through and through. Suddenly both the ground and their clothes were dry and clean. I read somewhere that scientists calculated that the it would have taken the same energy, liberated instantly, as that released by a 10 megaton hydrogen bomb to vaporise all the water. The people should have been vaporised with it but they weren't even harmed. They were just dry and clean, instantaneously.
My old Protestant pastor commented to me "There's been a lot of them (Marian Apparitions).... I think they're a judgment on a divided church."
Akita in Japan in 1973 gives a very savage warning. In that apparition Mary stated that there would be a judgement which spared "neither priest nor faithful" if we didn't change. There's not much evidence we have.
As I said before, the apparitions have been getting more frequent.
When Christ told His "disciple, whom He loved",
"Behold, your mother", the disciple was standing in proxy for all disciples, whom Christ 'loves'. The record is there for more than just an account of how she lived the rest of her earthly life. Ditto His statement to His mother, "Behold,
your son."
Again He was handing over all His disciples to her spiritual, maternal care.
There's no doubt in my mind the woman in Revelation, chapter 12, is Mary, the Mother of Christ, calling us to repent and turn back to her divine Son. She doesn't call us to herself - she calls us to Him.