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
16 Can you now understand why I asked the devoted servants of the Virgin to hold back the anger and indignation they felt rising in their hearts against these wretches ? Do you remember how I promised them that they would soon see these miscreants dealt with by the justice of God? Where are these arrogant rodomonts[1] now who in their insolence presumed to take on heaven and earth, and who gave free rein to their lying tongues when they disparaged and attacked the honour of God and His Holy Mother? What has become of the hopes they seemed to have not only of tarnishing the lustre of the most Holy Virgin, but also of preventing people from offering service to her, and completely extinguishing her name? Desirous of scaling the heavens, they were cast down into hell; presuming to blacken the reputation of our Princess, they have themselves suffered the darkness of eternal dishonour; showing contempt for her to whom they owed all respect, they have made themselves deserving of all scorn; their insolent attacks have been turned back upon themselves, piercing them to the heart; and when they foamed at the mouth with their hateful insults, they succeeded only in covering themselves with filth. By attacking her who is the Mother of all the children of God, they consigned themselves to infamy and public hatred; in short, the result of all their effort has been to bring them to an execrable end, being tormented by countless horrors which never go away. This is the fate of all those who are so rash as to go against the MOTHER OF GOD, turning against themselves her whom God gave them to be their principal protectress.
Footnotes
[1] rodomont: A vain boaster. After Rodomonte, the boastful king in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Boiardo and the sequel Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
17 Out of all the victories, however, that this valiant woman gained against heresy, the most outstanding and the most glorious one was the way she decimated her enemies by winning over men’s hearts. Whole groups of people who had gone to war against her were defeated by her gentleness rather than by her severity. Drawn by her to leave the enemy’s ranks, they threw themselves at her feet, rallied to her colours, fighting under her command and for her cause with a courage a thousand times greater than any they had shown for hell. History is full of conquests such as these, and every day we experience how the ranks of the Church Militant and the Church Triumphant swell with the reinforcement of the precious spoils she brings – to the glory of the God of armies and to the honour of her who leads His troops so successfully in battle.
§ 10. The fourth victory of the MOTHER OF GOD : defeating the Blasphemers, enemies of her Son and His followers
1 Of all the enemies of God and His Holy Mother, there remain only these to defeat. We shall soon see their end, however, for I hear the words of the warrior Virgin saying with David[1]: I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed. Because, moreover, they deserve the hatred and indignation of all creatures, there is a nothing in nature that will not answer the summons of the Queen of the universe and fall upon them to annihilate them. I could easily confirm this with examples if we had the time to contemplate God’s justice and all the remarkable punishments he administered to these wretches, but I am hesitant about making the reader spend too much time on such an unpleasant subject. It will suffice to provide one or two examples by way of demonstration. It seems I really have only to show how many times the Holy Angels have been used to execute God’s judgement in such cases since no one is unaware that they carry the sword of God to execute His vengeance on sinners and that they in particular are most jealous of the honour of their Princess. I do not even wish to spend too long on the punishments decreed in such cases by Princes who were devoted to the service and honour of the Holy Virgin. Readers may discover for themselves the ordinances of Charles VII, Louis XII and Charles VII on this subject. They can study the exceptional example of the zeal of Philip VI (de Valois) who issued the following decree: Anyone blaspheming against the Holy Virgin for the first time would be placed in the public stocks for a month, every day from 9:00 o’clock in the morning until 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon; all passers-by were permitted to throw mud, dung and such like into the faces of the blasphemer, who would be required to spend a second month fasting on bread and water. For a second offence of blasphemy, on market day his upper lip would be cut open so as to expose the teeth; for a third offence, the same would be done to the lower lip; for the fourth offence the two lips would be cut off completely; and if someone were so rash as repeat the offence after this, all power of speech would be removed by cutting out the tongue.
Footnotes
[1] Ps. XVII. 38.
[2] The high praise of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: Ps. CXLVII. 6-7.
[3] Tit. de Maldic. et Blasphem., c. 1..
👑 👑 👑
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
No comments:
Post a Comment