Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 8 : § 4.4

Chapter 8 : The Seventh Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She is the Protectress of the Church

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)

§ 4. The third Image represents the wondrous power and strength of the MOTHER OF GOD : the third quality she shows as Protectress

 4   The Abbot Rupert[1], Honorius and Alanus[2], see this tower as symbolising the power and strength of the Mother of God as Protectress of the Church. Indeed a close consideration will reveal to us that the Holy Spirit prepared the tower like a preparatory model prefiguring the holy Virgin. If David built his fortified city and his tower after defeating and casting out the Jebusite – the Saviour only raised His Mother as a defensive fortification after having first trampled underfoot[3] the ancient enemy, who had taken possession of the world. If David employed every human skill and effort to produce a work of perfection then, as I have shown throughout Part I, the Saviour has taken immense care to make the holy Virgin the wonder of the universe. If David’s tower was so high that it could be seen from a great distance – then the Saviour has elevated His Mother to such a height that she can be seen by Angels and men from every place on earth and in Heaven. If David built his tower on a rock and did everything he could to make it strong so as to keep in check the enemies of his people – then the Saviour placed His Mother on the highest mountains so that the enemies of His Church might be discovered from afar and filled with fear and trembling simply at the sight of her. If David made his tower into an arsenal, storing every sort of weapon and munition, offensive and defensive – then the Saviour made of His Mother a Protectress, equipped with everything necessary to defend and keep safe faithful in the Church, as I shall explain in the next chapter but also at other points in Part III. If David considers his tower and his fortified city such a work of accomplishment as to honour them with his name : the City of David – then the Saviour has rendered no less honour to His Mother, giving her the glorious title City of God, as I have shown elsewhere[4]. Finally, if David also makes use of the name Tower of learning – then the Saviour has even more reason for giving the same name to His Holy Mother; for she is indeed the Tower of learning which can be seen from the country’s highways, returning those who have strayed back onto the right path, giving confidence to those who are persevering on this path, and serving for the whole church as a lighthouse and as a safe haven. She is a Tower of learning inasmuch as she has and makes available to her children rare texts and hidden wonders of the divine wisdom, as I will be discussing at greater length in the next Part[5]. Tower of learning, because in her can be found God’s teaching par excellence. For over sixteen hundred years the Blessed spirits have been contemplating her, astonished to see in her so many perfections, so much skill and power. The more they explore these, the more they find there is to study, and, if we are blessed to receive her favourable help, we hope to have an entire eternity to contemplate these same great qualities and to wonder at a mere creature who is capable of supporting the world, taking on all the enemies of the Church and crushing them under foot.

Footnotes

[1] In illum locum 4 Cant. : Sicut turris David collum tuum, etc.

[2] In illum locum 4 Cant. : Sicut turris David collum tuum, etc.

[3] Jebusæus, id est, Conculcatus. Jebusite. i.e., trampled down. From the verb בוס (bus), to trample down.

[4] Part I, ch. 13.

[5] Ch. 10.

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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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