Prophesies of Marie d'Avignon (Marie Robine)

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Vision 2

Latin

Anno Domini 1398, die Veneris 26 Aprilis, Maria praedicta hora fere meridiei fuit rapta per duos spiritus flammeos seu ignitos et habuit tantum timorem quod nemo poterat eam confortare, et huiusmodi timoris signa ostendebat praesentibus, dominae reginae Siciliae et confessori suo et aliis pluribus. Et durante timore vidit quamdam visionem mirabilem quam postea praedictis praesentibus recitavit.
Visio fuit haec: vidit primo unam rotam flammeam seu ignitam a parte respicientem terram; et desuper apparebat terra, in qua erant 3450 acuti gladii fixi a parte quae respiciebat terram, quorum 5 erant multo maiores aliis et tres illorum multo maiores aliis et tribus praedictis unus erat maior. In eadem rota erant sagittae acutae quasi innumerabiles fixae in rota magis spissae quam sunt capilli in capite hominis. Et rota circumdabat quoddam pillare apparens esse lapideum, cuius conus unus tangebat firmamentum recte sub pede throni Dei; et semper rota movebatur, et apparebat ex velocitate motus quasi fulgur. Et distantia rotae a throno Dei in descensum erat quasi mille cannarum.
Et in rota erant 13 catenae tenentes ad firmamentum et ad rotam, quas tenebant 13 angeli ardentes moventes rotam, quorum quilibet tenebat in manu sinistra ensem elevatum ad percutiendum, et in dextra tenebat quilibet unam catenarum tenentem ad firmamentum et rotam. Et erant calefacti ad percutiendas cathenas, ut apparebat, quod non expectabant nisi praeceptum sedentis in throno. Et sedens in throno erat quasi in medio rotae ad modum unius hominis cruentati et diversis vulneribus vulnerati, iuxta pillare tenens in manu, quae secundum dispositionem nostram diceretur sinistra, unum ensem mirabilem qui erat fere longitudinis 5 cannarum et latitudine totidem elevatum ac si vellet percutere.
Et tunc praefata Maria eum oravit, dicens: « Domine sancte, pater omnipotens, placet tibi per merita benedictae passionis tuae ut miserearis nobis et ne in ira tua corripias nos. » Et irridens vox angeli unius tenentis catenam propinquorum sedentis quasi in medio rotae ait: « In Deo non est ira. » Et tunc praedicta Maria iterum oravit, dicens: « Domine, da nobis tempus et locum ut possimus emendare vitam nostram et tibi servire. »
Et respondit praedicta vox vultu irato ut apparebat, diceretur: « Satis habuistis tempus et satis habuistis doctores et praedicatores qui vobis intimaverunt et vos docuerunt, et tamen vos non emendatis. » Et adhuc oravit Maria praedicta, dicens: « Domine, si tua voluntas sic, fac ut tota sententia tua cadat super me, et moriar ego sola et vivant omnes alii. »
Et tunc respondit ipse homo existens quasi in medio rotae vultu irato, ut apparebat, dicendo ei: « Quare tu petis rem iniustam? Non concedetur tibi. Quare ego puniam te? Tu non es causa omnium malorum. Dimitte me capere vindicationem populo pleno iniquitatis. Tu ostendisti mihi signum magni amoris et nunc tu vis impedire voluntatem meam esse. »
Et tunc ostendit ei pelves eras plenas stercoribus foetentibus horribiliter, ita quod vix poterat durare sentiendo illum foetorem, dicens: « Ecce odorem quem die ac nocte dat mihi populus iste plenus iniquitate. »
Et tunc oranda praefata Maria dixit: « Domine sancte, pater omnipotens Deus, fiat voluntas tua. Sed quid dicent inimici tui? Quod tu rexisti te sicut unus puerorum qui faciunt pulchras domos de terra ad voluntates suas et postea destruunt eas? Memento, Domine, ad beneplacitum tuum verbum quod dixisti beato Petro. Tu enim promisisti ei quod fides tua non periret. »
Et tunc respondit ei vox existens quasi in medio rotae, dicens: « Bene recordor quid ego dixi beato Petro, et illud attendam et adimplebo ei. Sed sententia mea cadet in eos in quibus fides mortua est. »
Et tunc ense quem tenebat tetigit post ad omnia vulnera sua, et postea percussit pillare et eius tertia pars cecidit. Et tunc una pulchra domina movit se de loco in quo stabat, genibus flexis, cuius genua videbantur cruentata et excoriata et plena sanguine. Quae amplexata est eum, dicendo ei: « Fili, memento amarissimae passionis tuae quam tu es passus cum magna poena et ego cum magno labore et dolore. »
Et tunc existens quasi in medio rotae omnes gladios plicavit circumcirca rotam, et plicatis gladiis cessavit rotae motus qui erat quasi fulgur. Et plicando gladios praefatos dixit tribus angelis et tribus sanctis: « Si non emendaverit se populus iste plenus iniquitate, vos descendetis in terram cum istis gladiis, et suorum inimicorum cuilibet tradetur suus gladius, cum quibus destruant eos tamquam inimicos et adversarios meos. »
Et nihil aliud vidit pro tunc nec audivit dicta Maria quod recitare ei liceat, ut dixit.

English

In the year of the Lord 1398, on Friday the 26th of April, the aforesaid Mary, about the hour of midday, was seized by two flaming (that is, fiery) spirits and felt such great fear that no one could console her; and she showed signs of this fear to those present—the lady queen of Sicily, her confessor, and many others. And during the fear she saw a wondrous vision, which afterward she recounted to those present. The vision was this:
First she saw a flaming (fiery) wheel with its face turned toward the earth; and on its upper surface there appeared a ground or floor, in which were fixed 3,450 sharp swords on the side that looked toward the earth—of which five were much larger than the others, and three of those much larger than the rest, and of those three one was the largest. In the same wheel there were fixed almost innumerable sharp arrows, more thickly set in the wheel than hairs on a man’s head. And the wheel encircled a certain pillar that seemed to be of stone, one point of which touched the firmament directly beneath the foot of the throne of God; and the wheel was always moving, and from the swiftness of its motion it appeared like lightning. And the distance of the wheel in its descent from the throne of God was as it were a thousand reeds. And in the wheel were thirteen chains fastening to the firmament and to the wheel, which thirteen burning angels held, moving the wheel—each of whom held in his left hand an upraised sword to strike, and in his right each held one of the chains fastening to the firmament and the wheel. And they were heated, as it seemed, to smite the chains, so that they awaited nothing but the command of the One seated upon the throne.
And the One seated upon the throne was, as it were, in the middle of the wheel, in the likeness of a man bloodied and wounded with various wounds, beside the pillar, holding in his hand—which, according to our disposition, would be called the left— a marvelous sword, which was nearly the length of five reeds and of the same width, raised as though he wished to strike. And then the aforesaid Mary prayed to him, saying: “Holy Lord, almighty Father, may it please you, by the merits of your blessed Passion, to have mercy on us, and do not chasten us in your wrath.”
And a mocking voice of one of the angels who held a chain, standing near the One seated as it were in the midst of the wheel, said: “There is no wrath in God.” And then the aforesaid Mary prayed again, saying: “Lord, grant us time and space so that we may amend our life and serve you.” And the aforesaid voice, with an angry countenance as it appeared, replied: “You have had enough time, and you have had enough teachers and preachers who have made it known to you and taught you, and yet you do not amend.”
And still Mary prayed, saying: “Lord, if it be your will, let your whole sentence fall upon me, and let me alone die and all the others live.” And then that Man who was as it were in the midst of the wheel replied with an angry countenance, as it seemed, saying to her: “Why do you ask an unjust thing? It will not be granted to you. Why should I punish you? You are not the cause of all evils. Allow me to take vengeance upon a people full of iniquity. You have shown me the sign of great love, and now you wish to hinder my will from being.” And then he showed her bright basins filled with excrement, horribly stinking, so that she could scarcely endure the smell, saying: “Behold the stench which this people full of iniquity gives me day and night.”
And then the aforesaid Mary, about to pray, said: “Holy Lord, almighty God and Father, your will be done. But what will your enemies say—that you have conducted yourself like one of the little boys who make fair houses of earth for their pleasure and afterward destroy them? Remember, Lord, at your good pleasure the word that you said to blessed Peter. For you promised him that his faith would not perish.” And then a voice, as it were in the midst of the wheel, answered her, saying: “Well do I remember what I said to blessed Peter, and I will attend to it and fulfill it for him. But my sentence shall fall upon those in whom the faith is dead.”
And then with the sword which he held he touched afterward all his wounds; and afterward he struck the pillar, and a third part of it fell. And then a beautiful Lady moved from the place where she stood, kneeling, whose knees seemed bloodied and flayed and full of blood. She embraced him, saying to him: “Son, remember your most bitter Passion which you suffered with great pain, and I with great toil and sorrow.” And then the One as it were in the midst of the wheel folded all the swords around the wheel; and when the swords were folded, the motion of the wheel—which had been like lightning—ceased. And as he folded those swords he said to three angels and three saints: “If this people full of iniquity does not amend itself, you shall descend to earth with these swords, and to each of their enemies his own sword shall be delivered, with which they shall destroy them as my enemies and adversaries.”
And Mary said that for the time being she saw and heard nothing else which it is permitted her to recount.

Vision 3

Latin

Item sequenti die, post receptionem corporis dominici, hora fere nona, presentibus predictis personis nominatis et pluribus aliis, Maria predicta rapta fuit per similes spiritus, ut supra. Et videbatur ei quod portarent eam in tenebris seu in tenebras. Et primo vidit loca in inferno, illorum supra quos cadet divina sententia, in quibus punientur secundum magis et minus juxta exigentiam suorum peccatorum. Et illuc fuit ducta per prefatos duos angelos spiritus qui eam ibi dimiserunt.
Et tunc assumpserunt eam tres demones et duxerunt eam ante Luciferum, principem tenebrarum, quadam catena ligatam, qui eam retinuit et accendit faciem ignem horribilem circum eam et rotas ardentes illuc afferri fecit in quibus volebat eam torqueri. Et optione ei dedit eligendi unum de duobus, scilicet vel quod juraret ei quod nunquam deinceps de jure divino ecclesie mentionem faceret, et quod nulli diceret de illis que viderat, sed diceret quod (blanc) et quod abnegaret illum quem hodie receperat, « vel in istis tormentis preparatis oportet te manere perpetuo. Sed si aliquod istorum velis facere, tu retribis et facies quidquid tu volueris et habebis amicitiam omnium inimicorum tuorum. » Et tunc dicta Maria respondit ei, dicens : « De omnibus istis qui michi petis, ego non faciam aliquid. Sed si placet creator meo ego maneam hic, fiat voluntas ejus. » Et tunc Lucifer dixit ei : « Longo tempore impedisti me, sed nunc non evades manus meas. » Et ligavit eam quadam catena in una rota ardenti que erat in medio ignis sui circumdata igne, et demonibus quasi infinitis exultantibus multum et paratis ad torquendam eam. Et tunc Lucifer eam ligatam in rota vertit eam ter. Et tunc ipsa alta voce incepit clamare, dicens : « Domine Deus, miserere mei. » Et statim venit unus illorum spirituum qui eam illuc duxerunt cum ense evaginato; et percussit catenam qua ligata erat in rota et liberavit eam ab illis tormentis.
Postea ducta est ante thronum Dei, et vidit justitiam et judicium illorum super quos cadent predicti seu previsi gladii; et erant per modum separationis a perfectione divina. Videbat eum sedentem in throno qui ostendebat ei justitiam et judicium, dicendo : « Ego separabo iniquos a perfectione mea et ab illa quam dedi dilectis meis, que semper est mecum. » Et ostendebat ei quasi unam civitatem muris altissimis et spissis multum circumdatam, in qua erat tota christianitas. Et extra civitatem circumcirca erat infidelium multitudo quasi innumerabilis qui nitebantur muros civitatis in 4 locis rumpere, ac si vellent facere 4 portas; et jam fere fecerant unam portam. Et sedens in throno christianitatem in 4 partes dividebat. Et tres partes a quarta divisit. Et quartam partem uniebat cum filiis suis diversimode secundum diversas perfectiones, eis gratis conferendo.
Et tunc ait : « Ite maledicti patris mei ad inferna que vobis parata sunt ab origine mundi hujus, in quibus patiemini tormenta horribilia et stridorem dentium. » Iterum dixit prefate Marie quod prefati maledicti in isto mundo diversimode morientur; namque aliqui ab igne, aliqui in aqua, alii gladiis ferreis et alii morte subitanea, alii modis aliis morientur, « de quibus pro tunc tibi non facio mentionem. Et nisi propter hoc omnia convertantur ad me populus iniquitatis plenus, ego permittam cadere 5 fulmina super eos et peribunt omnes naves que erunt super mare extra portus, et peribunt etiam omnes in quatuor in quibus locis, unde exit tantus fetor, quod nemo poterit habitare super terram 7 annis. Et separantes se in fines navet et vivent cum magnis doloribus super terram, et in omnibus istis tribulationibus miserentur. »
Et tunc dedit licentiam Marie, dicendo ei : « Vade et dic ecclesiis, et qui habebit aures audiendi audiat, et qui spiritum intelligendi capiat, et lauda nomen meum coram hominibus, et non timeas eos qui possunt ibi facere malum homini, sed eum time qui potest occidere corpus et animam et ponere in gehennam inferni. »

English

On the following day, after receiving the body of the Lord, at about the ninth hour, in the presence of the aforesaid named persons and many others, the said Maria was carried off by spirits similar to those above. And it seemed to her that they bore her into darkness. And first she saw the places in hell, those over whom the divine sentence will fall, where they will be punished more or less according to the measure of their sins. And she was led there by the said two angelic spirits who then left her there.
And then three demons seized her and led her before Lucifer, prince of darkness, bound with a certain chain. He held her fast and kindled before her a dreadful fire, and had burning wheels brought near in which he wished to torment her. He gave her the choice of one of two things: either that she would swear never again to speak of the divine right of the Church, nor tell anyone of the things she had seen, but rather to say something else, and to deny the One she had received that day; “or else you must remain forever in these prepared torments. But if you will consent to any of these things, you will be rewarded and may do whatever you wish, and you will have the friendship of all your enemies.” Then the said Maria answered him, saying: “Of all these things you ask of me, I will do none. But if it pleases my Creator, I will remain here: let His will be done.” And then Lucifer said to her: “You have hindered me for a long time, but now you will not escape my hands.” And he bound her with a chain upon a burning wheel which was surrounded with fire, while demons without number rejoiced greatly and prepared to torment her. Then Lucifer bound her on the wheel and turned it three times. Then she began to cry aloud, saying: “Lord God, have mercy on me.” And immediately one of those spirits who had led her there came with a drawn sword, and struck the chain by which she was bound to the wheel, and freed her from those torments.
Afterwards she was led before the throne of God, and saw the justice and judgment upon those upon whom the foretold swords would fall; and they were set apart from the divine perfection. She saw Him seated on the throne, who showed her His justice and judgment, saying: “I will separate the wicked from My perfection and from that which I have given to My beloved, which is always with Me.” And He showed her, as it were, a city surrounded with very high and thick walls, in which was contained the whole of Christendom. And outside the city, all around, was a multitude of unbelievers almost without number, who strove to break the walls of the city in four places, as if they would make four gates; and already they had nearly made one gate. And He, seated on the throne, divided Christendom into four parts. And He separated three parts from the fourth. And the fourth part He united to His children in diverse ways according to different perfections, freely bestowing these upon them.
And then He said: “Go, ye cursed of My Father, into the hells which have been prepared for you from the foundation of this world, where you shall endure horrible torments and the gnashing of teeth.” Again He told the aforesaid Maria that those cursed ones in this world would die in many ways: some by fire, some in water, others by iron swords, others by sudden death, others in various other manners, “of which at this time I make no mention to you. And unless, for this reason, all turn to Me, this people full of iniquity, I will allow five lightning bolts to fall upon them, and all ships that are upon the sea outside harbors will perish, and likewise all those in those four places will perish, from which such a stench will arise that no one will be able to dwell upon the earth for seven years. And they will withdraw into remote places and live with great sorrows upon the earth, and in all these tribulations they will be pitied.”
And then He gave permission to Maria, saying to her: “Go and tell the churches, and let whoever has ears to hear, hear, and whoever has a spirit to understand, understand. And praise My name before men, and do not fear those who can do evil to a man, but rather fear Him who can kill both body and soul and cast them into the fires of hell.”

Vision 4

Latin

Iterum in spiritu videbam ecclesiam Dei, et erat ibi quatuor turres. Una erat maior et eminentior aliis, cuius fastigium attingebat nubes; tres vero aliae erant multum humiles et parvae, et ita positae circum ecclesiam quod illam magnam sustinere videbantur. Sed ecce subito cecidit illa magna et fracta est usque ad fundamentum, ita ut amplius erigi non posset. Et tunc illae tres parvae subito elevatae sunt, et factae sunt magnae et fortissimae, et totam ecclesiam cooperuerunt et sustentaverunt. Et audivi vocem dicentem: “Ecclesia Dei transferetur de uno loco in alium, et exaltabuntur humiles et deponentur magni. Et fiet translatio sedis apostolicae, et erit mirabile in oculis hominum.

The manuscript contains a margin note:

Tune erant prelati regni Francie congregati Parisius super provisione scismatis ecclesie et tune facta fuit substractio pape Benedicto XIII col�lationis beneficiorum et pleniariarum.

English

Again in spirit I saw the church of God, and there were four towers. One was greater and more eminent than the others, its summit reaching up to the clouds; the other three were very low and small, and so arranged around the church that they seemed to support that great one. But behold, suddenly that great tower fell and was shattered down to the foundation, so that it could no longer be raised up. And then those three small ones were suddenly lifted up, and became great and very strong, and they covered and supported the whole church. And I heard a voice saying: “The Church of God will be transferred from one place to another, and the humble will be exalted and the great will be cast down. And there shall be a translation of the Apostolic See, and it will be wondrous in the eyes of men.”

Manuscript margin note

Then the prelates of the kingdom of France were assembled at Paris concerning the provision for the schism of the Church, and then was made the withdrawal from Pope Benedict XIII of the collation of benefices and plenary [indulgences].

Vision 5

Latin

Deinde sexta die predicti mensis, in festo eucaristie Domini, dum missa celebraretur, Maria existens in oratorio suo satis prope altare, rapta fuit per duos spiritus flammeos seu ignitos qui eam ante thronum Dei deportaverunt. Et ibi vidit processiones divinas et celestes multitudines, miro quoddam ordine procedentes; procedebant enim sic circuiendo thronum Dei. Et vidit primo quemdam numerum cherubin et seraphin procedentium omnes alios, habentium turibula quinque, quibuslibet incensabant, unde tantus et tam odoriferus exibat odor quod vix humanitus explicari posset.
Deinde post ipsum sequebatur primum beatus Petrus portans Dominicum in manibus suis ad modum unius hominis etatis 33 annorum vel circa; et cum eo erant immediate alii apostoli suo ordine procedentes. Postea sequebantur virgines martyres, miro quoddam modo ornate; portabant enim septem coronas prout ei videbatur, et omnes VII in capite cujuslibet earum videbantur quasi una. Et omnes cum aliis circuierunt thronum Dei quinquies, cantantes unum canticum quasi novum. Quem quidem canticum non intelligebat Maria, nisi quando dicebant: «Gloria patri et filio et cetera.» Et hoc dicebant quando erant ante sanctam et individuam Trinitatem, deponentes pro qualibet vice unam dictarum coronarum, et inclinantes capita sua, nedum virgines solae, sed omnes alii quotquot erant usque ad pedes Domini, adorabant sanctam et individuam Trinitatem.
Et virgini gloriosae Mariae Dei genitrici, quae sedebat quasi in pede throni Dei, inclinabant precise capita sua. Et quinta vice circuitus sui reassumpserunt suas coronas et spicas depositas. Deinde sequebantur martyres suo ordine procedentes; postea confessores, suo ordine. Deinde venerabant patriarchae et prophetae; postea sequebatur magnus numerus virginum viduarum et confessorum.
Et facta hujusmodi processione ipsa reverenda, dimissa ab illis qui eam illuc tulerant, vidit se quasi in medio eorum. Et videbat quandam sedem vacuum inter sanctum Paulum et beatam Katherinam, quam ipsa [folio 119 recto] in corde suo desiderabat transferri ad locum in quo erat et in eadem sedere. Et tunc Jhesus Christus allocutus est eam, dicens hujusmodi: «Amas tu Deum?» Respondit ipsa Maria: «Ita, sed non tantum quantum deberem.» Iterum interrogavit eam, dicens: «Quid faceres bene pro eo?» Respondit Maria: «Voluntatem suam juxta posse meum.» Et tunc Jhesus dixit: «Quid impedit te, Maria?» «Nichil.» Et tunc ait Jhesus Mariae: «Prope peccatricem extra.» Respondit Maria: «Ego non possum.» «Admira me.» «Tu bene scis de quo me fecisti.» Et tunc ait Jhesus: «Maria, morieris pro tuo Deo?» Respondit: «Ita, si mihi placet.» Et tunc Jhesus ait Mariae: «Tu contradicis, nam tu offers mortem et verba hominum gravant te.»
Et tunc ostendit unum sertum rosarum diversorum colorum, et dixit ei: «Tantum quantum appropinquabis isti serto, ipsum ad te appropinquabit; et tantum quantum tu elongabis ab eo, elongabitur a te. Et nunc tu patieris per me sicut passus sum per te. Spera igitur, et patere amorem mei injurias, sputa et opprobria et cetera.» Et tunc dixit Jhesus Mariae: «Ego ostendam tibi passionem meam.» Et tunc ostendit ei passionem et eam ei declaravit. Et iterum interrogavit eam, dicens: «Potastine hodie nec comedisti?» Respondit Maria: «Tu bene scis quod non.» Ait idem: «Credis tu quod possum tibi ostendere species meis ante prandium et post prandium?» Respondit Maria: «Tu bene scis quod ego nunquam dubitavi.» Et ait Jhesus Mariae: «Pluries autem, si tu non dubitas.» Et dixit ei: «Es tu ebria?» Respondit Maria: «Non.» Et tunc dixit ei Jhesus: «Ego remittam tibi visionem et penam visionis timoris tormentorum quae alias ostendi tibi cras, et die sabbati erunt sex ebdomadae.»
Et tunc ostendit ei rotam flammeam seu ignitam a parte respiciente terram et cetera sicut in secundo capitulo usque ad finem. Postea reportata fuit iterum ante thronum Dei et ibi vidit judicium et justitiam et cetera ut supra. Et ibi videbat plures homines fictos in essentia divina sicut homines qui amiserant radices totius perfectionis. Et tempore quo illi stetit, vidit tres homines in essentia divina cadentes ac si caderent de uno gradu in alium, et ceciderunt omnino sic quod non vidit in essentia divina aliquod illorum nisi precise creationem sui esse. Et multis aliis modis vidit quod plures inciperunt cadere.
Postea dixit ei similia verba quae [folio 119 verso] declarata ei in tertio capitulo sic: «Ego separabo populum plenum iniquitatis a perfectione mea et ab illa qua dedi electis filiis meis; et do eam cotidie, et semper est mecum.» Et tunc ostendit ei civitatem quam alias ei ostenderat in tertio capitulo. Et sedens in throno ostendit ei quomodo diversas Christianitatem in situ in tertio capitulo dividebat. Et separati a quarta parte incipiebant in essentia divina diversimode declinari. Et ostendit praefata Mariae quomodo unierat quartam partem Christianitatis cum dilectione suis filiis suis secundum diversos gradus perfectionis. Et illis de tertia parte dixit: «Ego vobis dicam: maledicti patris mei, ite ad infernum, quod vobis praeparatur ab origine mundi usque huc, in quibus patiemini tormenta horribilia et stridorem dentium.»
Et vos moriemini divisis generis moris; namque aliqua igne, aliqua autem aliis gladiis fixis et alii morte subitanea, et multis aliis modis moriemini quos nunc non praesento. Et declaravit ipsis quid suae culpae quibus in tertio capitulo fecerat mentionem, et declarationem ipsorum. Et aliquae alia quae in hoc capitulorum locis sequi.
Et tunc dixit ei: «Vade, ego te exspecto efferius, et recipe me. Et dic ecclesiis haec quae vidisti. Et si lupi non velint te audire, dic haec omnibus. Et qui habet aures audiendi audiat et cetera, usque ad finem tertii capituli.»

English

Then, on the sixth day of the aforesaid month, on the feast of the Lord’s Eucharist, while Mass was being celebrated, Mary, being in her oratory quite near the altar, was seized by two flaming or fiery spirits who carried her before the throne of God. And there she saw divine processions and heavenly multitudes proceeding in wondrous order, for they circled around the throne of God. She saw first a number of cherubim and seraphim preceding all the rest, having five censers each, with which they censed; from these there came forth such a great and fragrant odor that it could hardly be expressed in human words.
Then after them followed blessed Peter, bearing the Lord in his hands in the likeness of a man of about thirty-three years; and with him immediately came the other apostles in their order. After these followed the virgin martyrs, wondrously adorned; for they carried seven crowns, as it seemed to her, and all seven appeared as one upon each of their heads. And all, with the others, circled the throne of God five times, singing a kind of new song. This song Mary did not understand, except when they said: “Glory be to the Father and to the Son, etc.” And this they said when they were before the holy and undivided Trinity, laying down one of the crowns at each turn, and bowing their heads—not the virgins alone, but all others as well, down even to the feet of the Lord—adoring the holy and undivided Trinity.
And to the glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God, who sat as it were at the foot of the throne of God, they bowed their heads exactly. And at the fifth circuit they reassumed their crowns and the ears of wheat they had laid down. Then followed the martyrs in order; then the confessors; then the patriarchs and prophets; then followed a great multitude of virgin widows and confessors.
When this procession was ended, she, most reverent, having been left by those who had brought her there, saw herself as it were in their midst. And she saw an empty seat between Saint Paul and blessed Catherine, which in her heart she desired might be transferred to her and that she might sit therein. Then Jesus Christ spoke to her, saying: “Do you love God?” She replied: “Yes, but not as much as I ought.” Again he asked: “What good would you do for him?” She answered: “His will, according to my ability.” He said: “What hinders you, Mary?” She said: “Nothing.” Then Jesus said: “Bring out the sinner.” She answered: “I cannot.” He said: “Look upon me.” She said: “You know well what you made me.” Then Jesus said: “Mary, will you die for your God?” She answered: “Yes, if it pleases me.” Jesus said to her: “You contradict yourself, for you offer death but are weighed down by the words of men.”
Then he showed her a garland of roses of various colors, and said: “As much as you approach this garland, it will approach you; and as much as you withdraw from it, it will withdraw from you. And now you shall suffer for me as I suffered for you. Hope, therefore, and endure for love of me injuries, spitting, reproaches, and the like.” And then Jesus said to Mary: “I will show you my Passion.” And he showed her his Passion and declared it to her. And again he asked her, saying: “Have you drunk today or eaten?” She replied: “You know well that I have not.” And he said again: “Do you believe that I can show you visions before your meal and after your meal?” She answered: “You know well that I have never doubted.” And Jesus said to her: “Often indeed, if you do not doubt.” Then he said to her: “Are you drunk?” She answered: “No.” Then he said: “I remit to you the vision and the punishment of the fearful torments that I had shown you before, tomorrow, and on the sabbath six weeks hence.”
And then he showed her a fiery or flaming wheel turned toward the earth, and so forth as in the second chapter until the end. Afterwards she was brought again before the throne of God, and there she saw judgment and justice, and so forth as above. And she saw many men as if in the divine essence, who had lost the roots of all perfection. And while she stood there, she saw three men in the divine essence falling, as if falling from one degree to another, and they fell entirely, so that she no longer saw in the divine essence anything of them except the bare creation of their being. And in many other ways she saw that many began to fall.
Afterwards he said to her words like those declared to her in the third chapter, namely: “I will separate a people full of iniquity from my perfection and from that which I have given to my chosen sons; and I give it daily, and it is always with me.” And then he showed her the city which he had shown her before in the third chapter. And, sitting on the throne, he showed her how he divided Christendom in its situation as in the third chapter. And those separated from the fourth part began in the divine essence to fall away in diverse ways. And he showed to the aforesaid Mary how he had united the fourth part of Christendom with love to his sons, according to various degrees of perfection.
And to those of the third part he said: “I say to you: accursed of my Father, go into hell which has been prepared for you from the origin of the world until now, where you will suffer horrible torments and the gnashing of teeth.” And you will die by diverse manners of death: some by fire, some by swords thrust through, others by sudden death, and by many other kinds of death you will perish, which I do not now set forth. And he declared to them what were their faults, of which in the third chapter he had made mention, and the explanation of them.
And then he said to her: “Go, I await you above, and receive me. And tell the churches what you have seen. And if the wolves will not hear you, tell it to all. And he who has ears to hear, let him hear, and so forth, until the end of the third chapter.”

Vision 6

Latin

Anno 1398 die 9 mensis novembris, hora quasi 9, Maria existens in oratione cum magna amaritudine spiritus cogitabat in quo stabat quod unionem habere non possumus et alias perfectiones nobis necessarias. Et fuit rapta per duos spiritus flammeos seu ignitos. Et fuit ei ostensa una visio valde obscura, et sic obscura quod unicum verbum illius visionis non fuit ausa dicere tota illa die, sed ejus anima stetit cum magno timore. Die vero sequenti in mediante hora fere sexta, Deus per suam potentiam ostendit prefate Marie declarationes visionis sue, dicendo ei (•) primo : « Maria, ego adnichillabo animam tuam et postea crcabo earn.» Et ita fecit prout asserit dicta Maria. Declaratio vero visionis fuit hec : vidit primo status totius religionis christiane, non cognoscendo quemquam illorum in speciali. Et corda hujusmodi vidit ad modum domorum, infra quas seu que erant in speciali ydola et simulacra virorum et ferrarum auri et argenti, et animalium magnorum. Et in quodam prono [folio 120 recto] angulo religionis predicte vidit aliquem pron um murum hominum illuminatorum lumine stelle quam alias in alia visione viderat. Et hanc stellam predicti homines circuibant plorantes multum acriter prout ei videbatur, effundentes lacrimas auri seu aureas. Et juxta quemlibet ipsorum erat unus angel us tenens in sua manu vas ad mod um pelvis argcnti superaurati; et per magnum placitum recipiebat omnes lacrimas in ilia pelvi; et affungebat seu effundebat super capita ipsorum. Et postea recolligebat, et istiusmodi tenebat continue. Et dominus qui hec omnia ostendebat dicte Marie allocutus est earn, dicens: « Sunt nonnulli qui dixerunt et possent dicere quod visiones non sunt eis necessarie vel revelationes. Indico eis per os tuum quod multo plures convertit sanctus Petrus in quodam suo sermone quern fecit quam sint pro presenti in religione christiana fideles. Dico tibi quod ydolatre sunt. Et hec que audisti et vidisti die magistris in theologia universitatis Parisiensis. » Et tune cogitabat prefata Maria utrum diccre eis in verbis vel in scriptis eis mittere. Et ipse respondit cogitationi sue : « Manda eis in scriptis. Et intima eis ex parte mei in scripto tuo quod si sint aliqui eorum ydolatre quod sua ydola destruant, et postea erunt sufficientes et virtuosi multum ad destruenda alia ydola in aliis; quia ydolatra non potest esse virtuosus ad destruenda ydola quequam nisi prius destruat sua. Et die eis quod non glorificcnt se quia modicum fructum faciunt. Et nisi destruant ydola sua eis imputabo illis peccatum. Daboque eis tot tribulationes quod in hac mortali vita ipsi incipient suas penas eternas; et si faciunt rebellionem in his que mando eis per te, facient rebellionem contra se ipsos. Et ego ligabo eis pedes et manus et fumabo in civitate con fusionis et retinebo michi claves justicie mee. Qui in terra fundabit ac seminabit, in terra possidebit et in ea recipiet messes suas; et qui in celo erit mecum et ego cum eo »

English

In the year 1398, on the 9th day of November, at about the ninth hour, Mary, being in prayer with great bitterness of spirit, was thinking on the state in which we stood, namely that we could not have union and the other perfections necessary for us. And she was rapt by two spirits, fiery or burning. And there was shown to her a very obscure vision, and so obscure that she did not dare to utter even a single word of that vision the whole day, but her soul remained with great fear.
But on the following day, around the sixth hour, God by his power showed to the said Mary the explanation of her vision, saying to her first: “Mary, I will annihilate your soul and afterwards I will create it anew.” And so he did, as the said Mary affirms.
The declaration of the vision was this: she saw first the state of the whole Christian religion, not recognizing any one of them in particular. And she saw the hearts of these [people] in the likeness of houses, inside of which there were idols and images of men, and of iron, gold and silver, and of great animals. And in a certain lowly corner of that religion she saw some men, a wall of men illuminated by the light of the star which she had seen before in another vision. And these men surrounded that star, weeping very bitterly as it seemed to her, pouring forth golden tears.
And beside each of them stood an angel, holding in his hand a vessel like a silver basin gilded with gold; and with great care the angel received all the tears in that basin, and poured them back over their heads. And afterwards he gathered them again, and so he continued without ceasing.
And the Lord who was showing all these things to the said Mary spoke to her, saying: “There are some who have said, and may still say, that visions and revelations are not necessary for them. I declare to them through your mouth that Saint Peter converted many more by a single sermon that he gave than there are faithful in the Christian religion at present. I tell you, they are idolaters. And what you have heard and seen, tell to the masters in theology at the University of Paris.”
And then the said Mary considered whether to tell them by word of mouth or to send it to them in writing. And He replied to her thought: “Send it to them in writing. And convey to them on my part in your writing that if any among them are idolaters, let them destroy their idols, and afterwards they will be sufficient and very powerful to destroy other idols in others; for an idolater cannot be virtuous in destroying any idols unless he first destroys his own. And tell them not to glory in themselves because they make little fruit. And unless they destroy their idols, I will impute their sin to them. And I will give them so many tribulations that in this mortal life they will begin their eternal punishments; and if they rebel against the things I command them through you, they will be rebelling against themselves. And I will bind their feet and hands, and I will make smoke in the city of confusion, and I will keep for myself the keys of my justice. He who in the earth will found and sow, in the earth shall possess and in it shall reap his harvests; and he who will be in heaven will be with me, and I with him.”

Vision 11

Latin

Anno domini 1399 die 12 mensis octobris Maria, audiendo missam, fuit rapta per duos spiritus flammeos seu ignitos. Et fuit portata ad visionem pacis. Et illic vidit stellam quam alias viderat dum ostensum fuit ei novum et antiquum testamentum. In medio cujus stelle vidit quamdam arborem viridem ornatam mirabiliter. Et ex divina ordinatione vidit angelos et sanctos facientes quamdam processionem circuiendo dictam arborem circumquaque. Et omnes circuiendo capiebant folia ab illa arbore; et ponebant ea ad partem, dicendo: « Aliqui recipient qui eis indigent.» Et male videbantur esse contenti de hoc quad singulare festum nos non faciebamus de fide nostra. Et hujusmodi processionem faciebant pro festo fidei catholice, et in deffectu hujus quod non faciebamus festum fidei singulare. Et Maria illa hora audivit unum secretum consilium in sancta trinitate, dicendo: « Nunquam creabo animam que veniat ad tan tam confusionem sicut faciat anima antichristi. Sed infundemus inde in corpus pueri qui nascetur ex peccatrice. Et ille habebit omnes malitias quas habunt omnes angeli inferni et omnes malas cogitationes et consensus per quos vel pro quos homines sunt dampnati. » Et Maria audiendo illud consilium cogitabat in corde suo sic : « Domine Deus, hoc erit contra resurrectionem generalem in qua quelibet anima debet resurgere cum corde suo proprio. » Et respondit Jhesus Christus sue cogitationi, dicendo: « Non erit contra resurrectionem qui illa anima reget duo corpora. Et erunt duo similia. Et vocabitur antiquus serpens et confusio infernalis. Et dabit penas omnibus illis quilibet ruinam facient. Et bene erunt in custodia nostra pueri nostri qui de suis malitiis poterunt conservare. Sed ipsi sunt male provise quilibet ipsum expectando presentes et futuri velint se bene advisare, quia nunquam fuit ita sanctus vel sancta in societate nostra qui tot et tanta pati habuit prout ipsi habebunt in tribus annis et sex mensibus per quos durabit hujus sententia. Et qui bene cavcbit de ejus notitia bene precipiet eam, quia in 5 die sue nativitatis puer maledictus loquetur. Et in illis 5 diebus semper tonabit et pluet in partibus illis in quibus puer hujusmodi nascetur. Et ita pulcher per naturam, quod per ejus pulchritudinem faciet se adorare. Et erit iterum baptizatus ad augmentum pene sue eterne. Et lucrabitur per avaritiam omnes quotquot dispositos reperiet, redeundo ad confusionem in qua dominus suus judicavit ad mortem. Et ultra ibi dicebatur quod lucrabitur regem et 12 pares Francie, et in speciale unum regem qui vocabitur Ludovicus. Et ille ei non evadet, et omnes milites Francie volentes bonum regni Francie. Et hoc intelligitur, si rex Francie et alii continuent modum quem inceperunt, 25,300 homines morientur pro defendendo antichristum die qua ipse faciet suum secundum obitum. Et terra erit maledicta ubi morietur. Et postea sequetur unum error quod in illa terra nascetur una bestia qui apud aliquos videbitur esse Deus faciens se adorare. Et durabit solum per 9 menses. Et finaliter erit destructa per legitimos Dei filios. Et illius destructionis erunt causa tres magistri in theologia qui loquentur una voce. Quorum unus vocabitur Stephanus, alius Johannes, et alius Matheus. Et tunc christianitas erit liberata a pessimo demone, gallice crepis. Et reddet Deo gratias et laudes que deferentur ad celestem societatem. Item Maria predicta dixit, quod superdictum festum fidei catholice quod in ecclesia celesti celebratur duravit per octo dies. Et Jeremias et Ysayas et alii de antiquo testamento stabant juxta sicut faciebant illi de novo testamento, qui semper circuiendo dictam arborem cantabant unum canticum mirabile. Sed illud canticum quod omnes cantabant solum incipiebant Ysayas et Jeremias. Et omnes alii consequenter insequebantur eos cantando. Et incipiebant cantare hora prime et continuabant usque ad meridiem. Iterum incipiebant hora none continuando usque ad completorium. Postea sequebatur misterium magnum passionis domini nostri Jhesu Christi. Venerunt enim, ut Marie apparuit, gentes infideles armati per medium illius pulcre societatis festivitatis. Et ligaverunt omnes frondes et ramos illius arboris funibus seu cordis. Et removerunt eam de loco in quo erat, non tamen portaverunt eam extra stellam. Et ibi eam verberaverunt tantum quod sanguis in magna copia exibat de predicta arbore. Et dictum sanguinem tres angeli recolligebant in vasis factis ad modum unius calicis. Sic tunc exivit sanguis extra quod intra nichil remansit. Et in cacumine arboris posuerunt unum sertum compositum ex junctis martris viridibus. Et sertum erat ad modum galee. Et tandem in illo loco fecerunt unam foveam in qua scpelierunt predictam arborem; et dicta arbor sepulta fuit per sanctos qui festum Dei faciebant, et non per alias infideles. Postea tres angeli predicti reposuerunt totum sanguinem recollectum infra arborem per unam plagam que erat in ejus latere. Et de sua potentia predicta arbor surrexit sive erexit se secundum suam figuram, hoc tunc addito quod mutavit suum colorem et sua folia in maximam pulchritudinem. Et tunc ivit arbor illa ad unum perennem viridarium et ibi stetit per modum standi in oratione ac si redderet domino gratias. Et postea recessit de loco illo et rediit ad plateam in qua capta fuerat, et ibi nullum reperit de illis qui festum fidei celebraverant. Et in eorum presentia ascendit ad celum de sua magna potentia, sedensque ad dexteram Dei patris, et figura illius arboris remansit semper in platea in qua fuerat primo assumpta. Postea vero Maria cogitabat in corde suo quale festum poterat illud esse. Et responsum fuit ei per beatum Paulum Apostolum, dicentem: « Hoc est fidei catholice festum quod celebramus in defectu viatorum ecclesie et pro placando iram Dei que promissa est contra eos sicut tu audies statim. Johannes enim, confessor tuus, petiit tibi quod officium dicimus in nostra celebratione. Nobis autem licet omnia officia dicere que pertinent ad fidem catholicam, et ad cappellanos viatores ecclesiarum pertinet omnia officia intelligere, et ad laicos firmiter credere et ad omnes firmiter operari. » Postea vero societas illa que per octo dies festum celebraverat venerunt ante tronum Dei et posuerunt se omnes ac si essent prostrati ad terram. Et omnes simul clamaverunt ad Deum misericordiam pro viatoribus. Et Deus respondit eis, dicens: « Dilectissimi filii, nos damus vobis bonas grates de servicio quod nobis fecistis in defectu viatorum qui facti sunt servi peccato et peccato erunt subjecti. Nos autem mandavimus regi Francie quod ipse reparent debite status ecclesie militantis, et ipse nichil vult facere pro nobis. Nos deponemus eos de sedibus suis per medium subjectorum suorum et erunt aliqui eorum qui morientur in magnis fluminibus sanguinis, et nostri erunt veri martires. Et alii morientur in sanguine iniquitatis, et crescent cis pene infernales. Et alii vivent veri confessores; et arbores florebunt et fructificabunt, et sicce cadent in ignem. » Et tunc Maria vidit quod sancti congregabant ossa multorum, et in ea ponebant ignem et ardebant hujusmodi ossa; petebant vero predicti sancti Deo terminum centum annorum antequam sententia daretur. Respondit eis dominus quod nullum terminum habebunt nisi tantum quantum viator manebit in sua mortali vita apponendo manum super caput modo. Et post ejus obitum ipsi nescient diem neque horam quando veniet. « Et durabit tam hujusmodi sententia per nos data usque quo ecclesia militans reducta erit ad terminos in quibus eam dimisimus, postquam eis misimus spiritum sanctum. Postea nostri legitimi filii veri confessores qui remanebunt relevabunt ecclesiam plusquam fuit relevata citra ascensionem Jhesu Christi. Et nos eis monstrabimus large de nostro adjutorio. Diligant enim viatores quod fuerit eis securius, aut quod ipsi reparent ecclesiam, aut quod eorum subjecti reparent eam in eorum defectu et nos mittemus nostram sententiam super terram religionis in illis qui religiosi vocantur; et religio non est in eis nisi amore nostri qui licet religionem suam quam nobis promiserit tenere teneat propter defectum ipsorum, mittimus tantam famem super terram et ita magnam quod non erit neque parvus nec magnus qui possit satiari. Et puniemus terram sic quod fructus in ea crescentes erunt magni. Et propter hoc non gaudeant usurarii quia hujusmodi fructus erunt inutiles et nulli proficient. Et confingant eos principes qui eos obvenerunt bene ad tantam nequitiam contra nostram voluntatem, et non sustineant eos in suis iniquitatibus quia multas tribulationes misimus mundo propter eorum peccata seu propter defectum religionis que in eis non observatur. Aviset se rex Francie et alii principes qualem vindictam ipsi caperent de illis qui sustinerent suos inimicos, similem capiemus nos de eis si eos sustineant in suis iniquitatibus. »

English

In the year of the Lord 1399, on the 12th day of October, while hearing Mass, Mary was seized by two flaming or fiery spirits and carried to the vision of peace. And there she saw a star which she had once seen when the Old and New Testaments had been shown to her. In the midst of that star she saw a certain green tree, marvelously adorned. And by divine ordinance she saw angels and saints making a certain procession, circling around that tree on every side. And all, as they circled, plucked leaves from that tree and laid them aside, saying: “Some will receive who are in need of them.” And they did not seem content that we do not make a singular feast of our faith. And such a procession they made in honor of the feast of the Catholic faith, because of our failure to make a singular feast of faith. And at that hour Mary heard a secret counsel within the Holy Trinity, saying: “Never will I create a soul that comes to such confusion as will the soul of Antichrist. But we shall infuse it into the body of a boy who will be born of a sinful woman. And he will have all the malice that all the angels of hell possess, and all the evil thoughts and sinful consent by which men are damned.” And Mary, hearing that counsel, thought in her heart: “Lord God, this will be against the general resurrection, in which each soul must rise again with its own body.” And Jesus Christ answered her thought, saying: “It will not be against the resurrection, for that soul will rule two bodies. And they will be alike. And he shall be called the ancient serpent and infernal confusion. And he will punish all who cause ruin. Yet our children will be well guarded, who by their own malice can be preserved. But they are ill-prepared, each one awaiting him; let both present and future take good heed, for never was there so holy a man or woman in our company who endured so much and so great suffering as they will endure in the three years and six months during which this sentence shall last. And whoever will carefully guard against his knowledge will profit well, for on the fifth day after his birth the accursed child will speak. And during those five days it will thunder and rain continually in the regions where such a child is born. And he will be so beautiful by nature that through his beauty he will make himself adored. And he will be baptized again, to the increase of his eternal punishment. And through avarice he will win all whom he finds disposed, leading them back into the same confusion in which his lord was condemned to death. And moreover it was said that he would win the king and the twelve peers of France, and in particular one king who will be called Louis. And he will not escape him, nor all the knights of France who desire the good of the kingdom of France. And this is to be understood, if the king of France and the others continue in the way they have begun, then 25,300 men will die in defense of Antichrist on the day when he will make his second death. And the land where he dies will be accursed. And afterwards there will follow an error, that in that land will be born a beast who to some will seem to be God, making himself adored. And he will last only nine months. And finally he will be destroyed by the legitimate sons of God. And the cause of that destruction will be three masters in theology, who will speak with one voice. One will be called Stephen, another John, and another Matthew. And then Christendom will be freed from the worst demon, in French called crepis. And they will render thanks and praise to God, which are carried to the heavenly company. Moreover, as Mary said, the aforesaid feast of the Catholic faith, which is celebrated in the heavenly Church, lasted for eight days. And Jeremiah and Isaiah and others of the Old Testament stood beside those of the New Testament, who continually circled the tree, singing a marvelous song. But that song which all sang was begun only by Isaiah and Jeremiah, and all the others followed after them in singing. And they began to sing at the hour of prime and continued until noon. Again they began at the hour of none, continuing until compline. Afterwards there followed the great mystery of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. For, as it appeared to Mary, unbelieving peoples came armed through the midst of that beautiful company of the feast. And they bound all the branches and boughs of the tree with ropes or cords. And they removed it from the place where it was, but did not carry it outside the star. And there they so beat it that much blood flowed forth from that tree. And three angels gathered the blood in vessels made in the manner of a chalice. So much blood went out that nothing remained within. And at the top of the tree they placed a garland composed of green martyrs, in the form of a helmet. And finally in that place they dug a pit in which they buried the tree; and it was buried by the saints who had celebrated God’s feast, not by the unbelievers. Afterwards the same three angels restored all the collected blood within the tree through a wound in its side. And by its power the tree rose again according to its form, but with this added, that it changed its color and its leaves into the greatest beauty. And then the tree went to a perpetual orchard and stood there as if in prayer, giving thanks to the Lord. Afterwards it departed from that place and returned to the square where it had been seized, and there it found none of those who had celebrated the feast of faith. And in their presence it ascended to heaven in great power, sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and the figure of that tree remained always in the square where it had first been taken up. Afterwards Mary thought in her heart what feast this could be. And answer was given to her by the blessed Apostle Paul, saying: “This is the feast of the Catholic faith, which we celebrate in place of the wayfarers of the Church and for appeasing the wrath of God which has been promised against them, as you shall presently hear. For John, your confessor, asked you what office we say in our celebration. But it is permitted to us to say all the offices which pertain to the Catholic faith, whereas to the chaplains of the wayfaring churches it pertains to understand all the offices, and to the laity to believe them firmly, and to all to perform them steadfastly.” Afterwards that company, which had celebrated the feast for eight days, came before the throne of God and laid themselves all down as if prostrate on the earth. And all together cried out to God for mercy on the wayfarers. And God answered them, saying: “Most beloved sons, we give you great thanks for the service you have rendered us in place of the wayfarers, who have been made slaves of sin and will be subject to sin. But we commanded the king of France that he should duly restore the state of the militant Church, and he wills to do nothing for us. We will depose them from their seats by means of their own subjects, and some of them will die in great rivers of blood, and they will be our true martyrs. Others will die in the blood of iniquity, and to them eternal punishments will increase. And others will live as true confessors; and the trees will blossom and bear fruit, and the dry will fall into the fire.” And then Mary saw that the saints gathered the bones of many, and they put fire in them, and such bones burned; and the said saints asked God for a term of one hundred years before sentence be given. The Lord answered them that they would have no fixed term, except only as long as the wayfarer remains in his mortal life, placing his hand on his head now. And after his death they will not know the day nor the hour when it will come. “And such sentence given by us will endure until the militant Church is restored to the state in which we left it after we sent them the Holy Spirit. Afterwards our legitimate sons, true confessors who remain, will raise up the Church more than it was raised before the Ascension of Jesus Christ. And we will show them abundantly of our help. Let the wayfarers love what will be more secure for them, whether they themselves restore the Church, or whether their subjects restore it in their default, and we will send our judgment upon the land of religion among those who are called religious; and religion is not in them, except love of us, who although they should keep their religion which they promised us, nevertheless on account of their failure we will send so great a famine on the land, and so great, that neither small nor great will be able to be satisfied. And we will punish the land in such a way that the fruits growing in it will be great. And because of this, let not the usurers rejoice, for such fruits will be useless and will profit no one. And let the princes who have upheld them take good care not to sustain them in such iniquity against our will, for we have sent many tribulations upon the world on account of their sins and because of the failure of religion which is not observed in them. Let the king of France and the other princes take warning of what vengeance they themselves would exact upon those who upheld their enemies; similar will we exact upon them if they uphold them in their iniquities.”