Description

This Brief comes in two sizes. The “small” one is 4.25″ x 3.5 inches.
The “large” one is 7 x 5.75 inches designed for display and comes on a 20 inch long cord for hanging above or on your doors. Handmade from 100% pure wool.

Each Brief is a third class relic blessed after purchasing with the relics listed below.

It comes with a pamphlet that includes the prayers and background.

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 a river. On her way to the river, she passed a shrine erected in honor of 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, 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!
Begone hostile enemies!
The Lion of Juda,
The Offspring of David has Triumphed, Alleluia!

The exorcizing proclamation is carried on the person or placed in homes. It is 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.

Sacred: Touched to Relics
After an item is purchased, just before it will be mailed out, we have them blessed by a priest, we sprinkle every item with blessed water before touching the Scapular off a relic of Jesus’ Manger, Jesus’ Crib (he slept in as a baby) and Jesus’ Tomb where he laid for 3 days.

It is also touched off the following first class relics (automatically turning this Brief and any other item into a third class relic)

Pope Innocent II
Pope Pius V
St. Teresa of Avila
St. John of the Cross
St. Theresa of the child Jesus
St. John Henry Newman
St. Simon Stock
St. Hyacinth O.P
Blessed Anne Marie Taigi
Blessed Marie Angela Truszkowska

Touched off the following second class relics:
St. Michael Relic Stone
St. Rita Cascia

We do this completely free of charge and only after the item has already been purchased by you, prior to mailing.