The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-01-19
THE POPE,s CURSE.

Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, has ia
ken possession of Rome, and made it part Of
his kingdom. The Pope has issued the fol
lowing anathema against him:
By authority of the Almighty God, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: and
Of the holy canons; and of the unde6led
Virgin Mary, mother and nurse of our
Saviour, and of the celestial virtues, an
gels, archangels, thrones, dominions powers
cherubims, and scraphims; and of all the
holy patriarchs and prophets and of all the
apostles and evangelists and of the holy in
nocents who in the sight of the holy Lamb,
are found worthy to sing the new song +; and
of the holy martyrs and holy confessors
and of the holy virgins; and of all the saints,
together with all the holy and elect of God
we excommunicate and mathematics him,
and from the threshold Of the holy Church
of God Almighty We sequester him, that he
may be tormented in internal excruciating
suferings, together with Dathan and Abb
ram and those who say to the Lord God,
depart from u.s. We want none Of Thy ways
And as fire is quenched with water, SO let the
light of him be put out forevermore.
May the Father who created man curse
him. May the son who died for US curse
him. May the Holy Ghost which was Civ
en- to us in our baptism curse him. May the
Holy Cross which Christ, for our salvation
triumphing over his enemies, assembled, curse
him. May the Holy and Eternal Virgin
Mary, Mother of God, curse him. May St.
Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him.
May all the angels and archangels, principal
tiles and powers, and all the heavenly armies
curse him. May St. John, the precursor, and
st. John the Baptist, and St. Peter, and St.
Paul, and st Andrew, and all other Christ's
Apostles together curse him. And may the
rest of his declples and four Evangelists, who
by their preaching converted the universal
world, and may the holy and wonderful COM
pany Of martyrs and confessors, who by their
holy works are found pleading to God Al
mighty, curse him.
May the Choir Of holy virgins, who for the
honor of Christ have despised the things of
the world, damn him may all the saints, who
from the beginning Of the world and ever
lasting ages are found to be beloved of God,
damn him; may the heavens and the earth
and all the holy things remaining therein,
damn him.
May he be damned wherever he be, wheth-
er in the house or in the field, whether in the
highway Or the byway, whether in the wood
or in the water, or whether in the church
May he be cursed in living and in dying, in
eating and drinking, in fasting and thirs-
ting, in slumbering aud sleeping in watching
or walking, in standing or sitting, in lying
down or working mingendo, cacando, and in
blood letting.
May he be cursed in all the faculties Of his
body. May he be cursed inwardly and out
wardly May he be cursed in his hair. May
he be cursed in his brains. May he be ours
ed in the crown of his head and his temples.
In his forehead and in his cars In his eve
brows and in his cheek. In his jawbones
and in his nostrils. In his foreteeth and in
his grinders. In his lips and in his throat
In his shoulders and in his wrists In his
arms, his hands, and in his fingers.
May he be damned in his mouth, in his
breast, In his heart, and in all the viscera of
his body; may he be damned in his veins
and in his groin; in his thighs and genital
organs, in his hips and in his knees, and in
his legs, feet and toe nails
May he be cursed in all the joints and ar
tlculations of his members From the top
of his head to the sole Of his feet may there
be no soundness in him.
May the Son o. the living God, with all
the glory of his majesty, curse him and
may Heaven, with all the powers that move
therein, rise up against him, curse and damn
him r