Part II : The Crown of Power : Chapter 13 : § 2.1-3

Chapter 13 : The Twelfth Star or Splendour of the Crown of Power of the MOTHER OF GOD

She is the Worker of great miracles

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)

§ 2. The MOTHER OF GOD is, after her Son, the Omnipotent Worker of great wonders

 1   Those whose hearts have once come to value and esteem the great and excellent splendours of the Virgin will have already seen and understood in their minds the following truth: that when God communicated His love to her – the Father giving her His Son and the Son choosing her for His Mother – He communicated His divine attributes and perfections at the same time. Since this communication of His love was in a certain manner infinite (when compared to all other mere creatures), in the same way it is simple to see that He communicated His perfections and attributes to her in a similar manner. This is why writers have found no difficulty in calling her all holy, all fair, all wise, all good and all powerful[1] (always after the uncreated Essence and the divinized Humanity). Let us leave to one side the other attributes, for you my rest assured that just as the status of MOTHER OF GOD surpasses in an immeasurable manner the nature, grace and glory of all the rest of Paradise, so too her Power is immeasurably above the laws of nature, grace and glory. Is anything else needed to demonstrate that she is the Queen of miracles and the worker of unimaginable miracles?

Footnotes

[1] See the authors named in Part I, ch. 13, § 3.

The Virgin’s Omnipotence is shown in the Conception of the divine Word

 2   If someone were nevertheless to ask for proof of her power by showing examples of what it could achieve, it would be simple enough to produce the masterpiece of miracles and the wonder of all the wonders of the world – which is to have conceived and brought forth a God. The masterpiece of the Son of God is His Mother, and the masterpiece of the Mother is her Son; and where could we ever find an example of the divinity showing forth the greatness of His absolute power in a manner more wondrous than in making a God? He willed that the Virgin should also be the worker of this wonder: the worker by her all powerful Fiat, and the effective cause by her physical engendering of His divine body. That which I have engendered is a Sun, Egyptian wisdom boasts in a celebrated inscription in the temple of Minerva; but it is quite another thing to say : That which I have engendered is a God. 

Do not quote Solomon’s masterpieces by way of comparison : his throne, his temple and so on, for consider how different it is to have built the living Temple and the substantial Throne of the Divinity. How may gold, silver and marble be compared to the adorable Flesh which is united to the Divinity? Neither forming new skies nor creating seraphim a hundred times more beautiful than those in heaven would show so gloriously the miracle of the Virgin’s power then she did when with two words she gave being to the King of Heaven and the Lord of Angels. There is a greater distance between man and God than between nothingness and a creature. That is why it is a more miraculous work to make a man God than to draw the whole universe from nothing, as a Doctor of the Sorbonne[1] once said. Why should we not therefore feel free to call Mary all-powerful, since the object and the measure of her power is the omnipotent, surpassing all the effects and all the wonders of nature, grace and glory?

Footnotes

[1] Mayro, Serm. de Annuntiat.

Secondly, the Virgin’s Omnipotence is shown in the work of our salvation

 3   After what we have just considered, do you think there might be anything else which might be truly worthy of wonder? Would it be the work of our salvation and the restoration of the world? Would it be grace, or glory? What! Was not all this placed under the Virgin’s power along with Him who is the salvation of the world, the principle of grace and of glory? The Saints are masterpieces of grace and are like so many  living miracles and eternal wonders of glory. Well, I am telling you that they are all works of the Virgin. Why else do you think that the first man whom the Saviour sanctified by His presence, and of whom He said that there was not a greater born of woman[1], was willed by the Saviour to be sanctified by the word of His Mother, as St Elizabeth testified[2]? What reason could there be for this if not to make known to us that it would be the same for all the others? In fact, if you run through the histories of the most famous Saints for whom we still have detailed accounts, you will see in all of them certain traits which make it known how she played a special role in each case. Add to this the remarkable conversion of so many sinners whom she daily redirects onto the path of salvation in ways which are altogether extraordinary. Are these not wondrous prodigies not only of goodness and mercy but also of omnipotence? For in order to save them she has to stop death in its tracks hundreds of times, she has to confound all of Satan’s plans, and she has to restrain the laws forming part of God’s ordinary justice. You will be reading several memorable examples at various points in Part III of this work.

Footnotes

[1] For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. Luke vii. 28.

[2] For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Luke I. 44.

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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