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Virgin Worship later became integral with Church theology. This
was apparent at the coronation of Medici Pope Leo X. He paraded from
the Vatican to the Church of the Lateran for the ceremony. The
Florentine physician Gian-Giacomo Penni described how this grand
procession passed through a magnificent new arch endowed by the banker
Agostino Chigi. Priceless marble, alabaster and porphyry treasures of
pagan Rome adorned it. On the approach to the arch, Pope Leo X read a
message written in gold: 558
The time of Venus has passed: Gone, too, is Mars
Now is the rule of Minerva.
Immediately through the arch, Pope Leo X encountered a
beautiful Greek statue of Aphrodite with the rest of the message in gold:
Mars has gone and Minerva Reigns
But Venus still our worship claims.
Indeed, in 1964, the Roman Catholic Church finally succumbed
to popular pressure for Virgin Worship. Pope Paul VI elevated the Virgin
Mary to Mater Ecclesiae, the Mother of the Church. 559 From that
moment, those of the Roman Catholic faith could only speak to God the
Father through Mary the Redemptress.
Perhaps the Medici Pope Leo X made the greatest Papal faux pas
of all time when ebullient and jesting, he quipped to the Venetian scholar
Pietro Bembo: 560
How very profitable this fable of Christ has been to us through
the ages.
We look at the survival of ancient Melchizedek traditions in
Southern France in the next chapter.
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