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Handout #134 |
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The complaint of Lady Church, by the theologian Jean Petit in 1393 A.D., during the Great Schism |
| Alas, what shall I
do in the midst of my sufferings, when for more than fifteen years a
sickness has tormented me, so severely that all my limbs are broken.
My head and body are divided, split into several parts. For the love
of God, Christians, See how I could be soon cured...
For this reason those who have made this storm around me are the servants of the Anti-Christ. It seems that they want to make me wife of two husbands and a widow at the same time; Many people are afflicted by this... I am wife of Robert of Geneoa. The others cry, 'No, no, It is not true, by Saint Genevieve, but she is the true wife of the successor of Bartholomew of Bari. The third say, 'No, by God, in justice neither the one nor the other is the Holy Father. And so they say that I am a widow... This affair must be settled first by the greatest who are not doing their duty. Neither Pope Clement nor Boniface. The two of them leave me here to rot they do not care if I trespass... So without delay take steps for me to be cured and pray God with a sincere heart that this shall be so and that he will grant it. Amen. |