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Poema sacrum, in diem purificationis, augustissimae Dei genitricis Mariae : ad nobiles et optimae spei adolescentulos Joannem, Martinum, Petrum, Nicolaum, Franciscum et Joannem Ludovicum Reiff, fratres germanos, &c. scriptum
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
No English translations of Pierre Cardinaux's 'Poema sacrum' (1587) were found in the UNESCO Index Translationum, Open Library, or other scholarly catalogs. The work is an obscure Neo-Latin poem, and the lack of any catalog entries for translations suggests this is the first time it has been rendered into English.
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Pierre Cardinaux wrote this 1597 poem to challenge the sons of the Reiff family to pursue academic excellence alongside moral virtue. Readers will find a powerful meditation on Mary's purity and the heavy weight of Simeon's prophecy.