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).
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§ 2. The MOTHER OF GOD is, after her Son, the Omnipotent Worker of great wonders
The Virgin’s Omnipotence is shown thirdly when working miracles of nature
4 As for the miracles she worked in nature, there seems little point in giving details since she performs so many every day that I could apply the words of St John[1] about the Saviour’s miracles, namely if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written. I do not think that a single Christian can be found who does not know personally of several miracles she has worked; that there is a single Church which does not offer acknowledgement and gratitude for them; that there is no sickness that she has not cured, no accident nor species in nature that she has not altered[2], no habits of action that she has not steered onto the right path – all of which are not insignificant proofs of her untrammelled Power. Do not be under any illusion that the Saviour did not have good reason for choosing to work through her means the first of his miracles at Cana in Galilee[3], for although He told her at first that His hour was not yet come, He decided to bring it forward and immediately worked the miracle, as has been noted by St Ambrose[4] St Chrysostom[5] and St Cyril[6]. He wanted to give a clear sign from this that He was placing the power of working miracles at the disposition of His Mother, including those He would work with with his own hands.
Footnotes
[1] John xxi. 25.
[2] See Part III ch.9,§ 3.
[3] John ii. 1-11.
[4] Serm. 6 in Psal. CXVIII.
[5] Homil. 21.
[6] Lib. I, c. 23.
It is shown fourthly through the close connection she has with her Son
5 Now if you are curious to know more about why she possesses a power so absolute, I should tell you that my opinion is that it is closely linked to the special connection she has to those reasons we considered above explaining her son’s Pre-eminent Power. Consider firstly the union that He had with the Divinity – and has not the Virgin participated in this so closely that we can truthfully say she has been personally united to the Word in her own substance, since the substance of the Son is part of the substance of the Mother? Even if there were nothing else other than this union made within her sacred womb, try to imagine the heat this furnace would have conceived from such a powerful conflagration, and what power would have been communicated to her by this personal indwelling for the space of nine months. If the Cross, from which He hung for only three hours and where He endured only torments, has nevertheless been so honoured as to become a common instrument for the working of the most remarkable miracles, what are we then to think about His Mother, in whose womb He dwelt for such a long time and from whom He received life itself? If the hem of His garment, if even a herb growing near the statue that the woman with an issue of blood erected to Him[1], passed on a supernatural power of healing as soon as she drew near to the hem of the robe of the statue – what must we think about her who did not simply touch lightly on one occasion the hem of the garment but who bore Him so long within her womb or carried him in her arms, and who gave Him the precious garment of flesh with which His divinity is covered, to imitate the way of speaking found in St Chrysostom[2] and St Isidore of Damietta[3]? If touching the bodies of the Blessed Apostles St Peter and St Paul was enough to confer upon an iron chain[4], a handkerchief[5] and a shadow[6] the power of working miracles – do you think that the intimate and substantial contact Mary had with the sacred Humanity would have communicated nothing less to the Blessed Mother? Who would believe that? Now if you move on to moral union: He who keepeth my commandments, shall abide in my love, says the Saviour[7], and shall have absolute power to accomplish all his desires. If you have only a little amount of living faith, as big as a grain of mustard then I told you in truth that you will be able to command the mountains and they will move, they will go and fall into the sea[8]. He that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do[9]. There you have the power of Christian faith. What then could be the power of her who has faith, charity and all the virtues to perfection, and who has never for even a single instant being other than perfectly united to the pure will of God?
Footnotes
[1] Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History, reports that, in his day a statue of Jesus curing the Bleeding Woman existed in Caesarea Philippi, and miraculous cures were obtained from a plant growing on it. See Book 6: CHAPTER 18.
[2] Homil. de uno legisl., et Serm. 6 in Gen.
[3] Lib. I, Epist. 248. Otherwise known as St Isidore of Pelusium.
[4] Acts xii. 6-7. The Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) was built in the 5th century in Rome to house the chains with which St. Peter was imprisoned in Jerusalem.
[5] Acts xix. 12.
[6] Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that when Peter came, his shadow at the least, might overshadow any of them, and they might be delivered from their infirmities. Acts v. 15.
[7] John xv. 10 et seq.
[8] Matt. xvii. 19; Mark xi. 23.
[9] John xiv. 12.
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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.
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