ST. ANTHONY´S BRIEF
In the 13th century, a Portuguese woman who’d been demonically oppressed resolved to do the unthinkable by taking her own life by drowning herself in the Tagus River. On her way to the river, she passed a shrine erected in honor of the great orator and miracle-worker, St. Anthony of Padua. She stopped to pray, one last time. As she prayed, she saw St. Anthony standing before her, saying, «‘Arise woman, and take this paper, which will free you from the molestations of the Evil One.» Then he gave her a parchment inscribed with what is now known as the «Brief (i.e., «Letter») of St. Anthony,» 1 and she was now free from demonic oppression and the desire to do away with herself.
News of this miracle spread, even to the King who asked the woman for the Brief. He placed it with the Crown Jewels of Portugal, which was fine for the King, but bad for the woman. After the Brief was no longer with her, she began to weaken and lapse, so the King made a copy for her that restored her to her healed state. Other copies of the Brief were spread to help the faithful fight the Evil One and remind them that Christ has conquered.
The Brief consists of a depiction of a Cross, and words which, forming a rhyme in the Latin, hearken back to Apocalypse 5:5, «And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: Behold the Lion of the Tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book and to loose the Seven Seals thereof.»
The words of St. Anthony’s Brief are:
Ecce Crucem Domini,
Fugite, partes adversae,
Vicit Leo de Tribu Juda,
Radix David, Alleluia.
English version:
Behold the Cross of the Lord!
Flee ye adversaries!
The Lion of the Tribe of Juda,
The Root of David has conquered, Alleluia!
The exorcizing proclamation is carried on the person or placed in homes.
It was also used in more specific situations, such as that encountered by the French seamen who found their ship tossed by an angry sea during a storm off Brittany’s coast in 1708. One of the men wrote the words of St. Anthony’s Brief, and threw it into the sea with a prayer to the Saint. Immediately, the seas calmed and the sailors were saved.
The words on this Brief are good ones to use when feeling tempted by evil, oppressed by demons, and in general spiritual warfare.
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