[527] _E. g._, Psa. lxviii, 1: “Let Mary arise, and let her enemies be scattered.” On one of the principal churches of Rome may still be read the awful perversion of Scripture: “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of Mary, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” [528] The expression of Modestus, patriarch of Jerusalem in the seventh century. [529] In allusion to the woman in the Apocalypse, xii, 1. [530] See a fresco in the _Campo Santo_, Pisa. [531] In the church of _Gesù e Maria_ at Rome. [532] Janua Coeli. [533] Stella matutina. [534] Refugium peccatorum. [535] Succurre miseris. [536] Tu nos ab hoste protege, et mortis hora suscipe. [537] Ora pro populo, interveni pro clero intercede pro devoto femineo sexu. See also in the “Ave Maris Stella,” Salva vincla reis, Profer lumen cæcis, Mala nostra pelle, Bona cuncta posce. See also the “Regina Coeli,” and the “Ave Regina Coelorum.” [538] She has been actually designated the Fourth Person of the Trinity. In Rome there are twenty-seven churches dedicated to Mary for one dedicated to Christ. “In dangers, in difficulties, in doubts,” says the Roman Breviary “in the abyss of sadness and despair, think of Mary, invoke Mary.” [539] In the church of S. Maria Maggiore at Rome may be seen a restored mosaic of the adoration of the Magi, in which Mary is represented, with a golden nimbus and tunic, as sitting on a chair of state higher than that of the Divine Child. But in copies of the original mosaic of the fifth century, made two centuries ago, (Ciampini, _Vet. Mon._, i, p. 200,) Mary is standing, without any nimbus or other sign of honour, by the side of Christ, who, attended by angels, occupies the throne. This was evidently a vindication of the divinity of the Son of Mary against the heresies of the Arians, which has been perverted by modern Romanists to an exaltation of the Virgin to co-equal honours with the Son of God. The figure of Mary as the Queen of heaven in the church of St. Nicholas at Rome is said by Papebrocius, a Roman authority, to have been originally intended for Our Lord, but afterward altered to the Madonna, a significant illustration of the substitution of her worship for that of her Divine Son. [540] See the wrathful image of Christ in the Last Judgment of the _Campo Santo_ and the Sistine Chapel. [541] Wordsworth’s _Eccles. Sonnets_, xxi. [542] Longfellow’s “_Golden Legend_.” [543] Dec., 1854. An inscription in St. Peter’s commemorates its publication. [544] Luke ii, 46. Such is Didron’s opinion. [545] See Fig. 132.