CIUDAD to - the Catholic Kingdom!

278 CITY OF GOD
merits through the operation
of the Sacraments in the
souls, but also when, in other miraculous conversions,
He fills them with particular knowledge of one or more
mysteries to their confusion and rout. Of such a kind
was the conversion of saint Paul, of Mary Magdalen
and other saints; or whenever it is necessary to protect
some Catholic kingdom, or the Church, from the treach
ery and malice of hell for their destruction. On such
occasions not only his sacred humanity, but even the
infinite Divinity, armed with the omnipotence of the
Father, advances upon the demoniacal hosts, filling them
in the above-mentioned manner with the knowledge of
the mysteries and of his Omnipotence, by which He
overwhelms them and forestalls them in their real or
intended conquests.
296. Whenever the Lord thus interposes such power
ful aid the whole infernal reign of confusion is terror
ized and stricken down into the hellish abysses for many
days, giving forth howls of mournful despair and totally
unable to move from their places until the Lord again
gives them permission to rise. But as soon as they receive
permission, they again issue forth with their former fury
for the ruin of souls. Although it may not seem in har
mony with their pride and arrogance to enter into a new
contest with the One, by whom they have been over
thrown and vanquished, nevertheless their jealous fear
lest we come to the enjoyment of God and their furious
desire to prevent it, again prevail and urge them to con
tinue their persecutions to the end of our lives. I was
made to understand, that if God were not so outra
geously misused in his mercy, He would often interpose,
even miraculously, his divine Omnipotence in our be
half. Especially would He do this in defense of the
mystical body of the Church and of some Catholic gov-
More Free Items at www.catholickingdom.com