Eternal, Everlasting King, and that He would recline His sacred limbs on the lap and arms of the Queen of Heaven. She is depicted robed in green garments, her head crowned with flowers, and bearing a laurel branch in her hand. THIRD SIBYL SIBILLA DELPHICA She was called by this name because she was born in Delphos, a city of Boetia, close to the Parnassus. She was daughter of Tyresias and Daphne. Some call her Themis, others Anthemis, and others Sibyla, on which account all the others were called Sibyls. She wrote before the destruction of Troy, and prophesied much of Priam and Hecuba about the union of Paris and Helen. The Romans erected a statue in her honour. Iliad. Homer took many of her verses for his She lived about the year 2802 B.C. Το her is ascribed the following prophecy : 'Ipsum tuum cognosce Dominum qui vere' Dei Filius est." And also the following "Nascetur Propheta absque matris coitu ex virgine eius." She wrote very carefully concerning the Incarnation of the Divine Word, life and miracles of Christ Our Lord, His betrayal, imprisonment, Passion and shameful death, Resurrection and Ascension, with such good order and style, that it reads more like the records of a past history than the narrative of events which were yet to come. This is expressed by the author of the Treatise on the Sibyls. She is depicted with a closed book, because the mysteries she wrote about were hidden from the people. Of the Passion of Christ she wrote the following prophecy : "Impinget illi colaphos et sputa subrectis Which is: The wicked people of Israel will give the Messiah blows, and will spit on His face, and they will give Him gall for His food and vinegar to drink. Here is also found a prophecy concerning the Virgin Mary quoted by Chrysippus : "Qui virginea conceptus ab alvo Prodidit hæc, sine contactu maris, omnia vincit |