The Crown of Excellence : Chapter 12 : § 2.1 [Pt II] & 2.2

Chapter 12 : The Eleventh Star or Splendour of the Crown of Excellence of the Mother of God

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)

She has been and is still recognized and called blessed by all generations in the world

§ 2. She has been recognized and called Blessed by the Gentiles

 1   Continued from previous post.

 1   The Hellespontine or Trojan Sibyl was often used by Heraclitus, the ancient philosopher. Here is what she foresaw:

There’s none that can compare, in history or fable: 

A Virgin pure there was delivered of her mite, 

An only Son brought forth from God’s eternal might;

This helpless babe was born within a lowly stable.

The Phrygian Sybil, usually represented with her hair flowing in the wind and robed in purple, is said by some to be the Cassandra who told father Anchises of his adventures and prophesied the fall of Troy. Here are her words:

One day the time will come – the heart of human history –

When God will send His Son so men might then behold

The wondrous virgin birth, by Angel all foretold,

Of One to cleanse all sin through mercy’s tender mystery.

The European Sibyl also had a very beautiful face and always wore brocatelle. Here is what she has left us:

The image of the Lord in His Eternal Word

Will come in leaps and bounds from peak to sacred peak,

Like mountain goats who play at springtime hide and seek;

He comes to mend the fault that man’s first sin incurred.

The Tiburtine Sibyl (the Sybil of Tivoli) is recalled by a statue found by the river’s edge which shows her holding a book. She made the following prophecy:

The Lord who cannot lie has told me to declare

A wondrous birth is due to Maid beyond compare:

God’s only Son conceived by Virgin undefiled;

Near Bethlehem this Maid her firstborn she will bear;

How bless’d she is who shows Him all her tender care,

Who suckles Him and loves her holy little Child.

The Agrippine Sibyl is less well-known than the others, both with regard to her country of origin and the place where she pronounced her prophecies. Here is what she said:

Take heed, O Adam’s sons, this wonder I proclaim:

In your days cometh One, in clothing of a mortal,

The Son belov’d of God, the Principle immortal,

Deliver’d of a Maid – and Blessed is her name!

The Babylonian or Erythraean Sybil was a maiden of great renown, not only for the clarity of her Oracles but also for her virtue. She spoke so unmistakeably of the Saviour and His Holy Mother that she might almost be taken for an Evangelist rather than a Prophetess. She spoke as follows:

A movement all divine within my soul arose,

In highest Heav’n I saw a mystery unheard:

From sov’reign Father leaped His own incarnate Word[1]

Who for His earthly home a Maiden’s womb He chose.

Footnotes

[1] Cf. Wisdom xvii. 15.

 2   To these Sibylline Oracles we can add one more which God the Father of truth drew from the mouth of the father of lies. In the year of the world three thousand minus two, the Argonauts took possession of a town in the Hellespont named Cyzicus. They asked the Delphic Oracle what thanksgiving they could offer for this victory. Here is the response which the demon, under the name of Apollo, was constrained to give them:

Observe, O mortal men, this ordinance divine:

Adore one God alone who ruleth every land,

Who holdeth Heav’n above and earth within His hand;

To holy fear of Him, your trembling hearts resign.

When as a lightning bolt across the heavens in flight

Is looséd from the clouds and streaketh down the sky:

So shall men see Him come, descending from on high,

The living God’s own Son, the Virgin’s first-born mite. 

The fulness of her grace shall be forever prized,

To Maid and blessed fruit fore’er are consecrated

The Temple – altar too – this won’t be abrogated;

As Mary shall the maid be straightway recognized.

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The Vladimirskaya Icon. >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 2024