Papal consecration of wax Agnus Dei images begs God to give them power against devil, storm, plague, and epilepsy
Wax Agnus Dei tokens—symbolic ‘Lamb’ images—are consecrated with papal prayers that they receive power against demons, storms, plague, and epilepsy (cf. John 1:29).
Latin
XXVIII. Idem dico de cereis illis imagunculis, quae agnus Dei vulgo nominantur, & quas Papa consecrare solet anno primo sui Pontificatus, & etiam post, septimo quoque anno, ut sint symbolicae quaedam imagines Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui est verus Dei Agnus qui tollit peccata mundi. Nam Papa, dum illas consecrat, multis iteratis precibus Deum rogat, ut imagines illae virtutem accipiant contra diabolicas versutias, contra tempestates, contra pestem, contra morbum caducum, aliaque mala atque incommoda. Ut videre est in libro sacrarum ceremoniarum capite cui titulus est de consecratione Agnus Dei. Ubi inter plures alias orationes similes, una est in qua Papa quaedam praefatus sic Deum alloquitur, sicut ille Agnus de cujus sanguine postes & superlimina domus liniebantur, immolatus, populum tuum a persecutione Aegyptiaca, media nocte liberavit: & quemadmodum ille Agnus innocens tua voluntate immolatus in ara crucis Jesus Christus filius, Protoplastum nostrum de diabolica potestate eripuit, sic isti agni immaculati virtutem accipiant, quos consecrandos offerimus in conspectu Divinae Majestatis tuae. Tu eos benedicere, sanctificare, & consecrare digneris, ut tua larga benedictione sanctificati eandem virtutem accipiant contra omnes Diabolicas versutias, & fraudes maligni spiritus.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.