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28 the miracles of antichrist
wax candles and all the hanging lamps, and we will
celebrate a great feast.
" As long as the monastery has stood, it has been
an abode of terror and abomination, but for all their
sufferings’ sake, who have lived here, God has been
gracious. And now all danger is past.
" God has crowned the struggle with victory, and
this which ye here see, is the sign that Antichrist
shall not be worshiped on Capitolium.
" For in order that the words of the sibyl should
not remain unfulfilled, God has sent the false image
of Christ, which bears Antichrist’s words in its
crown, and he has permitted us to worship and adore
it as though he had been the great miracle-worker.
" But now we may rest in joy and peace, for the
sibyl’s vague speech is fulfilled, and homage has here
been paid Antichrist.
" Great is God, the Almighty, who has suffered our
cruel fear to come to naught, and who has
accomplished His will without the world’s beholding the
corrupted image of the son of man.
" Happy is the monastery of Aracoeli which rests
in God’s protection, and does His will and is blessed
by His overflowing grace."
Having said these words the prior took the false
image in his hands, walked down through the church
and opened the main portal. There he stepped out
upon the platform. Below him lay the high and
broad staircase, with its one hundred and nineteen
marble steps leading down from Capitolium as into
an abyss. And raising the image above his head he
cried in a loud voice: " Anatema Antikristo," and
hurled it from Capitolium Hill down into the world.
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