Mercy and Mary

For serious Mariological research in Latin, this set of books is a goldmine. For those interested, you will be happy to find that most of the volumes (except 3, 9, and 11) are available free online to browse or download.

Summa Aurea de Laudibus Beatissimae Virginis Mariae edited by Jean-Jacques Bourassé (a collection of older books)
Published by Migne 1862

Volume 1 (Tomus Primus)
**** This contains the text of Mariae Sanctissimae vita ac gesta, cultusque illi adhibitus by Jean Chrysostome Trombelli which is also available here as its own book

Volume 2 (Tomus Secundus)
**** Volume 2 finished the work started in volume 1 and also includes Historia Deiparae Virginis Mariae by Cristobal de Castro which is also available here as a separate book and De Reliquiis B. Virginis Mariae by Trombelli (could not find as a separate book) and De Aedibus Quas Incoluit SS. Virgo and Iconographia B. Virginis Mariae by the same author. Also included is Biblia Mariana.

Volume 3 (Tomus Tertius) does not appear to be available online. It includes Mundus Marianus (not sure if this is the same one available online) and Kalendarium Marianum by George Colvener (online as Kalendarium Sacratissimae Virginis Mariae nouissimum). This volume also contains Church Fathers on Liturgica Mariana and Excerpta ex antiquis Liturgiis.

Volume 4 (Tomus Quartus)
**** This volume contains Trombelli’s De Cultu Publico ab Ecclesia Beatae Mariae Exhibito and Annus Marianus, sive Corona anni Mariani ex SS. Patrum sententiis… by Cyrillo. It also contains Novendialia Exercitia pro VII Festis principalioribus B. V. Mariae by Seeauer and Hebdomada Mariana, seu septem dierum opus complectens pia septem Exercitia by Mariologi Bohemi.

Volume 5 (Tomus Quintus)
****This volume contains, among other books, Defensio Beatissimae Virginis Mariae et Piorum Cultorum illius Contra Libellum intitulatum by Francisco Lodviscio Bona (1671), and sections on the Rosary and Scapulars.

Volume 6 (Tomus Sextus)
****This volume is made up entirely of a digest of teachings of the Church Fathers on Our Lady.

Volume 7 (Tomus Septimus)
**** Contained partially in Volume 7 and partially in Volume 8 is the Theologia Mariana of Virgil Sedlmayr. It is referred to as Scholastica Mariana by Bourasse. This book covers many questions about the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Volume 8 (Tomus Octavus)
****The last part of Volume 8 contains the first four (out of five) books of De Maria Virgine Incomparabili et Dei Genitrice Sacrosancta by St. Peter Canisius.

Volume 9 (Tomus Nonus) does not appear to be available online. It contains book five of the previously mentioned work and B. Virginis mariae Corona Stellarum Duodecim by Georg Reismüller. Although this book is not online, a book that appears quite similar in subject matter is: Pentaphyllum Marianum by the same author. It might be an earlier edition. This volume also contains the beginning of the Polyanthea Mariana.

Volume 10 (Tomus Decimus)
****This volume contains the Polyanthea Mariana which gives a list of titles of Our Lady and where they are found.

Volume 11 (Tomus Undecimus) does not appear to be available online, but some of the original books contained in it are: Reges Mariani, Principes Mariani, Fundatores Mariani, Lilia Mariana (all by Marracci). Also contained in this is Maria Augustae Ordines by Nicolai and the beginning of the Atlas Marianus.

Volume 12 (Tomus Duodecimus)
****This volume contains part of the Altas Marianus, which gives the history of various miraculous images of the Mother of God. It also includes Sailer’s Imitation of Mary and Miranda Mariana by Cimarolo. An example of a story in this collection is: Mary discloses to Bl. Veronica of Binasco the negligence of the sisters, and shows what she had to appease.

Volume 13 (Tomus Decimus Tertius et Ultimus)
****This volume contains Elogia Gloriosissimae Virginis Deiparae Mariae ad ejusdem Litanias Lauretanas by Berlendi which can also be found as a separate book. It also includes Apostoli Mariani.

“Tota Pulchra Es.”

THOU art all fair, O Mother blest!
In thee is found no stain;
Thou’rt purer far than whitest crest
That decks the troubled main.

Thy soul no taint did ever bear
Of imperfection’s shade;
And Satan never counted there
The blots his wiles had made.

First creature formed since Adam’s fall
Who shared not Adam’s sin;
Thy life was spent that mortals all
Celestial life might win.

Blest day, that sees a saint conceived,
A soul all undefiled!
What wondrous mysteries are weaved
Around that sinless child!

Glad sight to Heaven’s highest court.
They view their peerless Queen;
And feeble man’s most firm support
In that weak babe is seen.

O thou fond Mother, guard me well!
I trust my soul to thee;
Defeat the serried ranks of hell.
Safe guide me o’er life’s sea.

And when, all spent my mortal days,
I kiss Death’s fatal rod.
Be “Tota pulchra es” the phrase
My soul shall hear from God.

A. B. O’N., C.S.C.
December 8.

From Ave Maria Magazine, December 13, 1890

For all liturgical historians, you can look at a copy of the Gelasian Sacramentary. The Roman Canon is on page 234. You will notice it is very similar to the present Canon.

The Sacramentary is from the 8th century. Yes, some of these prayers have been prayed for quite a while.

This is a work in progress:

De Assumptione Beatae Virginis Mariae by Pseudo-Augustine
as found in Patrologiae Latina ed. Migne, Vol. 40 (It begins on “page 182″ which is actually column 1141 in the book).

This is a 9th century work by an anonymous author (erroneously attributed to St. Augustine at some point in the Middle Ages) on the bodily Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven.
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De Laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginis–found in the Opera Omnia S. Alberti Magni, Paris 1898, Vol. 36. The text is attributed to St. Albert the Great but is actually from Richard of St. Laurent, and it is one of the most important Marian works of the 13th century.

Here are some more:

Psalterium divae Virginis Mariae rhythmice conscriptum by Stephanus (Cantuarensis) (1579)

Rosetum Deiparae Virginis Mariae (1641) by Johann Christian Itzstein

Directiones Mariani colloquii Deiparae Virginis (1645) by Jacob Rhem

Adae abbatis Perseniae, sacri ordinis Cisterciensis alumni, … Mariale Quo … By Adam de Perseigne collected by I. Marracci (1652)

Firmamentum Symbolicum in quo Deiparae Elogia, Quibus velunt firmamentum stellis est (1652) by Sebastianus (a Matre Dei) Mary is the symbolic firmament, the firmament of stars as it were.

Exceptiones Concilii Tridentini pro omnimoda puritate Deiparae Virginis expensae (1655) by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg

Maiestas gratiarum ac virtutum omnium Deiparae Virginis, Mariae (1659) by Francisco Guerra (only Volume 2 is online)

Hyperdulia Deiparae seu Conciones, in omnia Festa B. Virginis Mariae (1673) by Joannes Dedinger

Hebdomada Mariana Divisa In Diversas Orationes Jaculatorias Pro Qualibet Die … (1675) by Constantius Arzonni

Hebdomada Mariana, sivè meditationes, et preces ad beatissimama semper … (1688) by Carlo Maria Carafa

Sacra Beatae Mariae Virginis ex Evangelio ad literam epitheta:
sanctorum Patrum ac interpretum doctrina accurate explanata … by Miguel de Ulate (1707)

Virginis Mariae, magnae Dei, et hominis Christi Iesu, dignissimae matris … by Miguel de Ulate (1714)

A list of classic books in Latin concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary (available free online):

Psalterium Gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae by Ulrich Stöckl (1580). This is from the days when the Hail Mary ended with “fruit of your womb, Jesus Christ,” and then they added phrases (usually 3 lines) to this. Each “Hail Mary” was its own prayer with a particular petition or observation. This book has some “warts” of antisemitism, so it is no doubt best that this particular Psalterium vanished into obscurity.

Maria Deipara thronus Dei by Pietro Antonio Spinelli (1619)

De eminentissima Deiparae Virginis perfectione by Giovanni Maria da Udine (1629)

De eminentia deiparae Virginis Mariae semper immaculatae by Giovanni Battista Novati (1639). This book discusses various attributes of the Virgin Mary in a scholastic format. It covers such topics as the knowledge of Mary, her virtues, her singular perogatives and perfections, her glorious Assumption, her intercession, and devotions to Her.

De affectu et amore erga Jesum et Mariam by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1645)

Bibliotheca Mariana by Marracci (1648)

Theatrum Excellentiarum SS Deiparae ex Consociatione Excellentarum Sui Filii by Martinus Philippus Convelt (1655)

Allegationes et avisamenta pro immaculata conceptione beatissimae virginis by Johannes (de Segovia), Pedro de Alva y Astorga (1664)

Monumenta antiqua Immaculatae Conceptionis Sacratissimae Virginis Mariae compiled by Fr. Pedro de Alba y Astorga (1664)

Magnificentia Dei erga matrem suam by Paul de Barry (1675). This appears to be some sort of calendar.

Maria Deipara Elucidata Theologiae Placitis… by Francisco Garau (1688)

Panoplia Mariana: Jean-Baptiste Van Ketwigh (1710)

De immaculata B. Virginis conceptione dissertatio by Giovanni A. de Luca (1739)

Mater Amoris Et Doloris, Quam Christus In Cruce Moriens Omnibus ac Singulis… by Anton Ginther (1741)

Biblia Mariana by Josephum de S. Miguel et Barco Burgensem, Ordinis Praedicatorum (1749)
from Europeana

De immaculato deiparae semper virginis conceptu Caroli Passaglia …, Volume 1 by Carlo Passaglia (1854)

Summa Aurea de Laudibus Beatissimae Virginis Mariae edited by Jean-Jacques Bourassé (a collection of older books)
Published by Migne 1862

Volume 1 (Tomus Primus)
**** This contains the text of Mariae Sanctissimae vita ac gesta, cultusque illi adhibitus by Jean Chrysostome Trombelli which is also available here as its own book

Volume 2 (Tomus Secundus)
**** Volume 2 finished the work started in volume 1 and also includes Historia Deiparae Virginis Mariae by Cristobal de Castro which is also available here as a separate book and De Reliquiis B. Virginis Mariae by Trombelli (could not find as a separate book) and De Aedibus Quas Incoluit SS. Virgo and Iconographia B. Virginis Mariae by the same author. Also included is Biblia Mariana.

Volume 3 (Tomus Tertius) does not appear to be available online. It includes Mundus Marianus (not sure if this is the same one available online) and Kalendarium Marianum by George Colvener (online as Kalendarium Sacratissimae Virginis Mariae nouissimum). This volume also contains Church Fathers on Liturgica Mariana and Excerpta ex antiquis Liturgiis.

Volume 4 (Tomus Quartus)
**** This volume contains Trombelli’s De Cultu Publico ab Ecclesia Beatae Mariae Exhibito and Annus Marianus, sive Corona anni Mariani ex SS. Patrum sententiis… by Cyrillo. It also contains Novendialia Exercitia pro VII Festis principalioribus B. V. Mariae by Seeauer and Hebdomada Mariana, seu septem dierum opus complectens pia septem Exercitia by Mariologi Bohemi.

Volume 5 (Tomus Quintus)
****This volume contains, among other books, Defensio Beatissimae Virginis Mariae et Piorum Cultorum illius Contra Libellum intitulatum by Francisco Lodviscio Bona (1671), and sections on the Rosary and Scapulars.

Volume 6 (Tomus Sextus)
****This volume is made up entirely of a digest of teachings of the Church Fathers on Our Lady.

Volume 7 (Tomus Septimus)
**** Contained partially in Volume 7 and partially in Volume 8 is the Theologia Mariana of Virgil Sedlmayr. It is referred to as Scholastica Mariana by Bourasse. This book covers many questions about the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Volume 8 (Tomus Octavus)
****The last part of Volume 8 contains the first four (out of five) books of De Maria Virgine Incomparabili et Dei Genitrice Sacrosancta by St. Peter Canisius.

Volume 9 (Tomus Nonus) does not appear to be available online. It contains book five of the previously mentioned work and B. Virginis mariae Corona Stellarum Duodecim by Georg Reismüller. Although this book is not online, a book that appears quite similar in subject matter is: Pentaphyllum Marianum by the same author. It might be an earlier edition. This volume also contains the beginning of the Polyanthea Mariana.

Volume 10 (Tomus Decimus)
****This volume contains the Polyanthea Mariana which gives a list of titles of Our Lady and where they are found.

Volume 11 (Tomus Undecimus) does not appear to be available online, but some of the original books contained in it are: Reges Mariani, Principes Mariani, Fundatores Mariani, Lilia Mariana (all by Marracci). Also contained in this is Maria Augustae Ordines by Nicolai and the beginning of the Atlas Marianus.

Volume 12 (Tomus Duodecimus)
****This volume contains part of the Altas Marianus, which gives the history of various miraculous images of the Mother of God. It also includes Sailer’s Imitation of Mary and Miranda Mariana by Cimarolo. An example of a story in this collection is: Mary discloses to Bl. Veronica of Binasco the negligence of the sisters, and shows what she had to appease.

Volume 13 (Tomus Decimus Tertius et Ultimus)
****This volume contains Elogia Gloriosissimae Virginis Deiparae Mariae ad ejusdem Litanias Lauretanas by Berlendi which can also be found as a separate book. It also includes Apostoli Mariani.

I speak not for the Marians but from a merely personal standpoint here.

The reputation of WTU has proceeded it. WTU has its own special little section in the book Goodbye, Good Men, and unlike other seminaries featured there it seems they did not work to change their image. If they did, it wasn’t effective. They didn’t get the harshest critique in the book, actually. It just explained that if you like the teachings from Rome (i.e. orthodoxy), you will not fit in at WTU.

There is very little mystery here to me. I always like to point to Fr. Andrew Greeley’s obscure book Religion in the Year 2000. The book came out in 1969, and with his sociologist background, he could already see a reaction to all the “experimental attitudes” coming sometime around the year 2000–a backlash, as it were. He said it, and although he didn’t like it when it was brewing (utilizing the term “Young Fogeys”), he had to admit that this was the trend.

The “conclusion of the mission” of WTU is a signpost. WTU may have been in sync with the societal trends when it opened in 1968, but, for all practical purposes, WTU is still in 1968 (or maybe 1974), and today’s younger generation doesn’t even remember 1990. They don’t remember a time before the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. They don’t remember the days of Wilhelm’s Christ Among Us. They don’t remember Humanae Vitae protests. And most especially, they don’t remember a time before Pope John Paul II.

Generally not, but if you can read Latin, I’ve got a link for you.

I had though that his work DE MARIA VIRGINE INCOMPARABILI ET DEI GENITRICE SACROSANCTA was not available online, but I was (thankfully) wrong. It was, in fact, reprinted in Jean-Jacques Bourassé’s monumental 12 volume work, Summa aurea de laudibus B. V. Mariae.

A link to volume 8 of the Summa Aurea which contains most of the first 4 books of the work: Summa Aurea Volume 8

I could not find a link to Volume 9, which contains the fifth book.

The quality of the text leaves something to be desired, and the OCR of the text has many, many errors. Still, if you type out a passage you want to translate and use Google Translate for a rough English translation, you at least have a start.

Here is an example I created. In a section where St. Peter Canisius deals with the accusation of Jesus being harsh with His mother when he is found in the temple, here is (roughly) part of what St. Peter says:

“He did not allow them to suffer for three days out of contempt, but because of love and honor of the sovereign Father, he remained in the temple, and gave this example in accordance with teaching others a method of more perfect obedience, and eventually it is, as it were, a prelude to the teaching in public after the baptism, which gave glory to the eternal Father.”

The Latin original:
Hac oratione Christus puer exponit parentibus, cur minus admirari debeant, quod ipse in urbe Hierosolymitana hoc triduo manserit, illos vero in quaerendo permiserit sollicite et anxie laborare. Subindicat etiam, se ex nullo illorum contemptu, sed ob amorem et honorem summi Patris in templo remansisse, quodque hoc exemplo velit docere alios perfectioris obedientiae praestandae normam atque rationem; ac demum dicto et facto quasi praeludit ea quae post baptismum in publico docendi et disputandi munere, ad aeterni Patris gloriam apud Judaeos erat exhibiturus.

“When the Lord spoke to Moses about the model of the divine sanctuary, He spoke first of all about the Ark of the Covenant; so the first creature predestined to exist was the Most Blessed Virgin, who would become a living Ark containing God.” — St. Lawrence of Brindisi translated by moi with the help of Google Translate.

Yes, I’m back at the Marian Library. I’m learning plenty of information about the Blessed Virgin Mary — things that are worth learning. Right now in one of my classes we are going over the history of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. One of the figures in this history is William of Ware. He believed in the doctrine and taught Bl. John Duns Scotus.

I can see a “Who’s on first” routine developing with this name.
He’s William of Ware.
He’s Bill of where?
That’s what I said.
Where is Bill from?
That’s right.
He’s from that’s right?
No, he’s from Ware.
Where is Ware?
It’s right where it is!
Wait a minute, I want to know where Bill is from.
I told you. He’s from Ware.
That’s what I want to know.
And I’m telling you……