Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 9 : § 9.14-15

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).

Notre Dame des Grâces, Cotignac.(Poggi, 2020)

§ 9. The third victory of the MOTHER OF GOD : defeating the Heretics, enemies of her Son and His followers

 14   As for the Albigensians, I have already spoken about them elsewhere in this work[1]. We have seen how in the past the heretical firebrands from hell left the world examples of the punishment they received. We should not forget, however, those in our own day who renewed blasphemies against the Virgin. Do you not think that there would have been an avenging goddess Adrasteia[2] For them too ? Time and space do not permit us to go into the details here but those who are interested can read what was written by the learned and pious Bosius[3]: 

He says that he saw a man who was in the service of Luther when he was suffering from a sickness in the town of Schmalkalden, who made him kiss his memorial. Having learned from him that his master ended up in such desperate straits, the man wanted to do away with himself. This he would have done without the prompt intervention and help of some of his friends who, to conceal the shame and disastrous fate of their Prophet, made everyone present swear an oath to tell nobody about this.

Readers may also wish to look into what was written by the diligent researcher Tyræus[4]:

On the day of Luther's death, a number of demoniacs in one of the towns of Brabant called Cheol[5] were suddenly freed from the spirits possessing them, causing great astonishment in all who witnessed this phenomenon. Greater still however was their astonishment when the next day the demons took possession once again of the bodies they had left on the previous day. When they were asked where they had been, the demons replied that on the orders of their prince, they had been present for the transfer of the soul of the great prophet Luther, who was their companion. One of Luther’s servants confirmed this account when he told how that very night, having opened a window to allow fresh air into the bed chamber where his master’s body had been laid out, he nearly died of fright when he saw a huge number of phantoms with varying shapes and sizes cavorting and capering in the air. Ravens accompanied the body with their croaking when it was carried from Eisleben to Wittenberg, reinforcing what people had heard about these evil demons and also about the manner of Luther’s death: for he was said to have gone to bed after a heavy bout of drinking and his lifeless body was found the following morning.

Footnotes

[1] Part I. ch. 13.

[2] Adestreia: the goddess of the inescapability of punishment, later identified with Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution.

[3] P. II, t. II de Notis Ecclesiæ.

[4] De Dæmoniacis, I p., sect. 11.

[5] Possibly Heel in the south eastern Netherlands.

 15   A Doctor Cochlæus says much the same about Johann Œcolampadius, who:

having retired for the night in good health, was found dead in bed the following day by the woman claiming to be his wife. Some believe that she murdered him, others that he committed suicide; in his book on the Private Mass, Luther writes that Satan was his executioner.

John Calvin did not deserve an end any more honourable than the others and here is what Jerome Bolsec faithfully recorded in his biography:

After suffering for some four years with colic, gallstones, gout, haemorrhoids, tuberculosis, breathing difficulties, migraines, violent fluxions with coughing up of blood, when he died his body was infested with lice and vermin all over, but especially in the places where he had sinned most shamefully; before his end came, he could be heard invoking demons, swearing, cursing with spite and damning the day his studies had led him to such a pass.

 

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The Virgin of Tenderness. >12th century.

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. 

 

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

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