Chapter 9 The Eighth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD
She commands the Church’s armies
Continuing our translation of the 1845 reprint of Fr François Poiré's Triple Crown of the Mother of God (1643 French edition).
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§ 4. The second Legion of the enemies of God and the Holy Virgin : Magicians, Sorcerers and other such monsters of nature having familiar intercourse with the Devil
4 I am speaking of the most terrible scourge God has for chastising the world, compared to which plagues, wars, famine and even heresy are like whippings which only brush against the surface of a man’s hide. I am speaking about those whom the Emperor brands under his law[1] as public enemies and a plague wherever they may be found in the world; of those who prompted Filimer, King of the Goths[2] (who had moved into the marshy lands near the Sea of Azov[3]), to introduce reforms in his state requiring these ill-disposed people to be banished into the remotest fastnesses of Scythia, lest they should spread infection through the contagion of their practices. He would have been better advised were he to have cleansed the world by sweeping away these evil seeds which seemed to take root everywhere and are able to spread infection from a distance just as easily as amongst neighbours. I am speaking of those for whom King Athalaric[4] would not hear talk of forgiveness as appears from the strong language he uses to those charged with the administration of justice, writing to them that it was a wicked thing to show indulgence towards those who reject any goodness in the kind-heartedness of God. We should none of us forget the memory bequeathed to the Roman Empire[5] by Julian the Apostate, one of the foremost sorcerers of his time: after his death, people found in wells, in dungeons and in hidden locations horrific piles of human heads, bodies he had cut open, babies that he had torn from the wombs of their poor mothers – all to provide the wicked sacrifices that the demons unceasingly required him to make. After he had given up his wretched soul in battle in Mesopotamia, spewing out his customary blasphemies against the Saviour, people discovered in the temple at Carrhae[6] the body of a poor woman hanging by her hair; he had cut her open before taking the field, intending by her sacrifice to gain victory.
Footnotes
[1] L. et si Cod., tit. de Maleficiis : In quacumque sint parte terrarum inimici generis humani censendi sunt.
[2] Joann. Magnus Gothus., lib. VI Hist. Goth.
[3] The French text has le Palus-Méotide, translating the Latin Palūs Maeōtis which refers to the large body of water to the NE. of the Euxine now called the Sea of Azov. See Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) William Smith, LLD, Ed.
Identified by some with the Haran or Harran mentioned in Gen. xi. 31.
[4] Cassiod., lib. IX Var., c. 18.
[5] Niceph. Gal., lib. c. 1 et 3 Tripart. Hist., lib. III, c. p.
[6] Identified by some with the Haran or Harran mentioned in Gen. xi. 31.
5 Consider those miserable trees that have been blackened and devastated by bolts of lightning and then you will have an idea of what these souls are like when the Church hurls anathemas at them. These wretches stand condemned by God and have been abandoned by Him to all the rigours of temporal and eternal justice, if they do not acknowledge what they have done and repent. Alas! The cause of their detestable life is in fact that which normally leads them to die in utter despair, for they are like people who began to live out their hell a long time ago and will never cease to do so. To point out something which may be unnecessary, I am speaking of those who are the object of God’s indignation and at the same time of His infinite long-suffering, forasmuch as they ceaselessly fan the flames of His just vengeance, at the same time they also make us understand better than all other sinners that we are serving a God who is infinite in goodness and equanimity, for the patience which has tolerated these monsters for so long must be the patience of a God.
6 Who will now find it astonishing that they have an irreconcilable hatred for the MOTHER OF GOD and that she for her part pursues them everywhere, seeking their undoing? They hate her forasmuch as they have souls that have been totally imbued with the fury of the Prince of darkness, their father, who at the same time that he was pouring his spirit into them, also infused them with a deep hatred of the Holy Virgin. They hate her just as owls hate the daylight, because of her incomparable holiness, especially as she is the most beautiful and most dazzling mirror of the infinite perfections of God that it is possible to find in a mere creature. They hate her so much that there are amongst them persons carried away with such a frantic desire to cause her harm that they, out of hatred for her virginity, pray that they may become as infamous in their vileness as she is pre-eminent in her purity. Does this not support what I was saying earlier that we need a God whose patience is infinite and that His Mother should partake of this in order to be able to put up with the hellish intentions of these denatured souls? They hate her for being the Mother of the Saviour of the world – against whom their hatred is principally directed. They try to dishonour her in every conceivable way, they load her with insults and blasphemies, and they try to place her beneath the feet of him whom they have chosen for their Lord. Finally, they hate her for the outrages they imagine they have suffered as a result of her who opposes all their schemes, who overturns their plans, who renders their curses and spells harmless, who confounds their Kingdom, bringing ruin at every level – as I shall be describing later when we discuss her victories.
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SUB tuum præsidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.
The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.
Totus tuus ego sum
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam.
© Peter Bloor 2025
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