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Updated: June 18, 2025
'The Santa Maria Sanctissima' was so high that they had to use scaling-ladders to reach her deck, but the pirates soon swarmed on board, the captain was slain by Black Pedro, the rest of the crew walked The Plank, and 'The Angel of Death' sailed back to Rum Island with her booty. "It was the richest she had ever captured.
Some one had noted strange sailors in the throng: one might not be sure of the letters on their caps, because of the darkness: but they were Christians not Turks thanks be to the Madonna! "But the Queen is safe, Sanctissima Vergine! The Queen is in the Castle." "There is His Excellency, Maestro Gentle, physician to Her Majesty, he passeth but now, the glimmer of his mail beneath his cloak!
COMITATE FUIT OPTIMA DOCTISSIMO CONVITU INGENIO SUBLIMI FACETIIS JUCUNDUS SENTENTTIS PLENUS DONORUM DEI LAUDATOR TIDE DEVOTISSIMA PER MULTAS TEMPESTATlS CONSTANTER MUNITTJS HUMILITATE SANCTISSIMA ORNATUS SALUTI SUAE MAGIS INTENTUS
I have a longing for amusement, I should like to invite everybody to the house, to give a dinner, a ball, a supper, a reception, to have some sort of diabolical carnival I should like to have everybody, everybody. I am not ill-natured at heart, I am only a little crazy. Ah! son felica! Ah! son rapita Dio Virgina Sanctissima.
He had made no change in it, except to add one or two more pistols in the sash. "One autumn, after Black Pedro the Third had been captain for about a dozen or fifteen years, 'The Angel of Death' had a terrible fight with the biggest galleon she had ever tackled, 'The Santa Maria Sanctissima, a ship so huge that she towered far above the pirate vessel.
The mighty sound penetrated to the depths of the Citadel, waking the Cyprian force from its stupor of despondency, rousing the dormant manhood within them. It reached the chamber of the captive Queen, who had known no thrill of hope since that night of horror. "My God! my God!" she cried, with streaming eyes. "I thank thee! Madonna mia Sanctissima! My people are calling for me!"
The assistants understood not all he said, because he continually spoke in Latin; and Antonio de Sainte Foy, who never left him, has only reported, that the man of God made frequent repetition of these words, Jesu, fili David, miserere mei! and these also, which were so familiar to him, sanctissima Trinitas! Besides which, invoking the blessed Virgin, he would say, Monstra te esse Matrem!
On the opposite side he found a doorway, and, noiselessly gliding in, he had the pistol to the Mexican's ear before whatever dreams the man might have been having were even disturbed. "Caramba, sanctissima! Santa Maria!" yelled the man, springing to his feet as if propelled by springs.
He spoke these words in Latin, that he might not be understood by the common people: and being on the coast of Fishery, at the kingdom of Travancore, and at the Moluccas, he was heard to speak so many times every day these words, O Sanctissima Trinitas! that the most idolatrous barbarians, when they found themselves in extreme dangers, or that they would express their amazement at any thing, pronounced those very words, without understanding any thing more of them than that they were holy and mysterious.
"For that I came!" cried Dama Margherita, her voice ringing through the hall like a leader's call to arms; "to bring news of her to her own! How should it fare with a Queen made captive in her own stronghold? With a mother whose child hath been stolen from her? With a woman struggling with such anguish?" "The Prince! Our King! Sanctissima Maria! San Marco confound the knaves!"
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