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The jacinth, attribute of charity and succour vouchsafed to sinners, is appropriate to the Auxilium Christianorum and the refugium peccatorum of the prayers. Is not the diamond, which means strength and patience, the Virgo potens? the carbuncle, meaning fame, the Virgo praedicanda? the chrysoprase, for fervour, the Vas insigne devotionis?
At length the monks poured into the church, while the solemn "Domino refugium" arose from their lips the same grand words which for these thousand years past have told of the eternity of God and the destiny of the creature; speaking as deeply to the heart then as in these days of civilisation.
Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison. Sursum Corda. Deus Refugium nostrum et virtus. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi miserere mihi. Sancta Trinitas unus Deus, miserere nobis. Ab infestationibus Daemonum, a ventura ira, a damnatione perpetua. Libera nos Domine. Quem quaerimus adjutorem nisi te Domine qui pro peccatis nostris juste irascaris?
'Bryan, said I, 'is it true that you and your father's family are preparing to go to that refugium peccatorum, America that overgrown cupping-glass which is drawing the best blood of our country out of it? "'The people of Ireland, he replied, 'have a right to bless God that there is such a country to fly to, and to resave them from a land where they're neglected and overlooked. It is true, Mr.
The Virgin came upon the scene to a dance measure like a ballet girl; but when certain of her attributes were paraded, and certain of her symbolical names declared, the music became singularly respectful; it became lower, halting and solemn, thrice repeating, on the same motive, some of her attributes, the "Refugium Peccatorum" among others; then it went on again, and began her graces again with a skip.
It made Something seem real to them which otherwise might have been difficult to grasp; and now when Pater Bonifácius in his gentle, cracked voice intoned the invocations of the Litany, the "Salus infirmorum" and "Refugium peccatorum" and, above all, the "Consolatrix afflictorum" the response "Ora pro nobis" came from two hundred trusting hearts praying, if not for themselves, then for those who were dear to them: the infirm, the sinner, the afflicted.
William Blake proposed to rebuild Jerusalem in this green and pleasant land. My lord proposed to erect a miniature Babylon amid similar pleasant surroundings, a little dream-city by the sea, a home for the innocent pleasure-seeker stifled by the puritanism of the great towns, refugium peccatorum in this island of the saints.
Cuthbert, where those gallant ancestors whose story we have told in former chronicles awaited him "earth to earth, and dust to dust." It was a touching procession. The body was borne by the chief tenants yet living, and surrounded by chanting monks, whose solemn "Domine refugium nostrum" fell with awful yet consoling effect upon the ears of the multitude.
Our Lady of good Counsel. S.M. "del Soccorso." Our Lady of Succour. Our Lady of the Forsaken. S.M. "del buon Core." Our Lady of good Heart. S.M. "della Grazia." Our Lady of Grace. S.M. "di Misericordia." Our Lady of Mercy. S.M. "Auxilium Afflictorum." Help of the Afflicted. S.M. "Refugium Peccatorum." Refuge of Sinners. S.M. "del Pianto," "del Dolore." Our Lady of Lamentation, or Sorrow.
Now, as to this story, all I have to say of it is that I do not believe a word of it. Not because I am blinded by any sentimentalism of to-day, which, as in a child's story, brings all right for everyone in the end; but for this very cogent reason that of all created beings Our Lady is the most merciful, loving and tender Refugium Peccatorum. Also I know a better story.
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