Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 11 : § 5.1-3

Chapter 11 The Tenth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She is an Advocate for men and Mediatrix between them and her Son

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)

§ 5. The Power of our Mediatrix that comes from her own merits

 1   To God alone belongs the prerogative of making His creatures great and when He does this we can easily recognise His handiwork. In this context, the great Patriarch of Constantinople, St Germanus, spoke to the glorious Virgin as follows[1]:

Everything that hath to do with thee, most Holy Lady, is indeed excellent, truly great and exceedeth our understanding; the power thou hast with thy Son surpasseth all that we might conceive.

The same idea appears in the words that the pious Prelate of Nicomedia[2] addressed to her when he said:

If there remaineth any hope for us of reaching heaven, then it hath for its base and support thee alone, to whom we look for the help and succour we need. Since our excuses must be presented through thy lips in order to be acceptable, let us not seek to glorify ourselves in anything – forasmuch as thou hast deigned to accept our trust in thee. We ask thee to communicate on our behalf the pleas we make to thee, for thou hast the power to do so : neither thy requests nor intercession can be resisted; all must comply with thy commandments and be subject to thy power – since he who was born of thee hath undertaken to raise us above all the works of his hands.

Anyone wishing to make a special study of the arguments advanced by these two great servants of the Virgin will find they are based upon two very solid foundations: namely, on the outstanding merits of the Mother and on the limitless goodness of the Son.

Footnotes

[1] Orat. de Zona B. Virg.

[2] Georgius Nicomed., Oratio de Oblatione B. Virg.

 2   To speak truthfully about this, how powerful are the words of a Mother spoken to her child, and how difficult it is for such a one to refuse her requests! There is even less possibility of such a refusal when a Mother such as the Holy Virgin makes use of this name’s sweetness. St Lawrence Justinian[1], the devout Patriarch of Venice, spoke to her as follows:

Ask of thy Son whatever thou wilt, for He can refuse thee nothing who willed to be born of thee and who hath so honoured thee as to take His repose in thee, keeping thee close to His person. 

St Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres[2], said to her:

Do thou accept what we present to thee, obtain what we ask of thee and help us in our fears : for it would be folly on our part to seek anyone to appease the wrath of our judge, other than thee who hast merited to be His Mother.

St Augustine[3] and St Ildephonsus[4] also touch upon this when they say:

It would indeed be most strange if she who bore within her the price of our deliverance should not have greater credit than others, interceding for those whom her Son hath delivered.

I will repeat once again that words uttered by the mouth of a Mother are powerful words. If were to go even further and add her tears to her words, what heart could ever withstand such a twin assault?  Antipater, long ago the great friend of Alexander, wrote him a letter concerning Olympias, the Prince’s mother, which contained a number of accusations. Alexander smiled as he read it and then said: Antipater does not yet know that a single tear from my beloved mother would be enough to make me dismiss a thousand letters such as this one.

Speaking personally, if ever I were fortunate enough to come across one of these beautiful pearls distilled from the eyes of the Queen of Heaven, I would hold it to be so precious as to believe most firmly that there was nothing that would be impossible for me. No, there could be no sort of grace that I could not obtain by presenting this tear to her beloved Son; there could be no sin so enormous that it would make me worried about obtaining forgiveness; in short, I cannot conceive how anyone who kept such a precious relic could come to harm. Although in her current state she may no longer shed tears, she can still present on our behalf those which she once shed in abundance and ask for anything she wishes – for the Saviour considers them so dear that He can refuse nothing when he sees them.

Footnotes

[1] Serm. de Nativit. Virg.

[2] Serm. de Assumpt.

[3] Serm. 35 de Sanctis.

[4] Serm. 8 de Assumpt.

 3   We do not have to stop with her tears since there is something even more powerful. What will the Holy Virgin not be able to obtain through inviting the Saviour to recall the milk that she gave Him when she was breastfeeding Him? Poets in their fables have written how droplets of milk, dropping from the breasts of the goddess Juno, created what we nowadays call the Milky Way, which according to them is the final resting place for the most beautiful souls. This milky liquid, they went on to say, had merely to come into contact with certain roses to make them lose their first crimson hue and become milky white. These may be simple tales told to amuse, but the truth is that there is no path leading to heaven which is more trodden than that which is sprinkled by milk from the MOTHER OF GOD; and there is no conscience so blood-stained with the wounds of sin that cannot immediately be made white by a single drop of this milk. All that is needed is to say to the Saviour: By the love of the Mother who hath raised thee, and by her breasts which have nourished thee… ; whereupon His heart will be won over and His anger will evaporate like dew beneath the sun.

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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.

© Peter Bloor 2025