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all the wax candles, and all the hanging lamps, and
we will celebrate a great festival.
“As long as the monastery has stood it has been
a home of terror and a cursed dwelling; but for the
suffering of all those who have lived here, God has
been gracious. And now all danger is over.
“God has crowned the fight with victory, and this
that you have seen is the sign that Antichrist
shall not be worshipped on the Capitol.
“For in order that the sibyl’s words should be
carried out, God has sent this false image of Christ that
bears the words of Antichrist in its crown, and he
has allowed us to worship and adore him as if he had
been the great miracle-worker.
“But now we can rest in joy and peace, for the
sibyl’s mystic speech is fulfilled, and Antichrist has
been worshipped here.
“Great is God, the Almighty, who has let our
cruel fear be dispelled, and who has carried out
His will without the world needing to gaze upon
the false image made by man.
“Happy is the monastery of Aracoeli that rests
under the protection of God, and does His will, and
is blessed by His abounding grace.”
When the prior had said those words he took the
false image in his hands, went through the church,
and opened the great door. Thence he walked out
on the terrace. Below him lay the high and broad
stairway with its hundred and nineteen marble steps
that leads down from the Capitol as if into an abyss.
And he raised the image over his head and cried
aloud: “Anathema Antikristo!” and hurled him
from the summit of the Capitol down into the
world.
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