Dantur hic remedia a Christo, per que vnus puer trium annorum, qui vexabatur a dyabolo, sanatus est. Mater eciam eius, que illudebatur a demonio incubo, per virtutem Christi et verborum hic contentorum ab eo liberata est.
The Mystery of Suffering and Discernment
Christ explains to the bride the spiritual causes behind the child's affliction and the mother's demonic torment.
A three-year-old boy couldn't be calmed unless he was sprinkled with cold water. Seeing this, the bride was amazed. Christ said to her: Look at the justice and the permission of God! This boy's mother had been tormented for a long time by an incubus demon. Since the devil is a spirit, he takes on a body for himself out of the air. In this state, the devil appears visibly, acting out his malice and wickedness with that woman in a lewd and wanton manner.1 Although the child was born of a father and mother, the devil still has great power over him because he hasn't been truly reborn through Baptism, but was baptized in the way that ignorant women are accustomed to baptize without using the words of the Trinity.
The Remedy of Grace and Prayer
Christ prescribes the correct baptism for the child and a prayer of confession for the mother to secure their liberation.
Therefore, let the child be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and he will be healed. But the mother should confess her sin and say, when the devil approaches her: Jesus Christ, Son of God, who were born of the Virgin Mary for the salvation of humanity, and were crucified, and now reign in heaven and on earth, have mercy on me! By doing this, the woman was set free.
Read the original Latin
Puer trium annorum quietari non poterat, nisi quando aspergebatur frigida aqua. Quod videns sponsa mirata est. Cui dixit Christus:
"Vide iusticiam et permissionem Dei! Mater huius pueri a demone incubo diu vexata est. Nam dyabolus, quia spiritus est, assumit sibi corpus de aere.
In quo lasciuiens ostendit se visibilem, exercendo cum illa femina quasi luxuriose maliciam et nequiciam suam.
Et licet puer de seminibus patris et matris natus est, maximam tamen dyabolus in eo potestatem habet, quia baptismate vero renatus non est sed eo modo baptizatus, quo mulieres ignorantes verba Trinitatis baptizare solent.
Ideo puer baptizetur in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, et sanabitur. Mater vero confiteatur peccatum suum et dicat, quando dyabolus accedit ad eam:
'Ihesu Christe, fili Dei, qui natus es de virgine Maria pro salute hominum et crucifixus es et nunc regnas in celo et in terra, miserere mei!'" Quod mulier faciens liberata est.
Notes
- 1 ↩The Latin 'lasciviens' and 'luxuriose' carry a strong sense of wantonness or lewdness, reflecting the demonic nature of the encounter described.
Revelationes (Heavenly Revelations) companion
Keep going — one revelation a day
The full 496-chapter Revelationes lives in the Chosen Portion app, served as free daily portions.
Birgitta's revelations arrived over three decades of daily attentiveness, and the Chosen Portion app lets readers receive them the same way — one portion per day.
- Finish the guided path in 8 weeks at roughly 15 minutes a day
- All 8 books, 496 chapters, in modern English — the complete transmitted text
- Daily delivery so a 30-year masterwork becomes a sustainable habit