re revelations babylon rex rexlex fnal fnal gov writes it is also of interest to note that in on the occasion of a jubilee pope leo the th had a medallion cast with his own image on one side and on the other side the church of rome symbolized as a woman holding in her left hand a cross and in her right a cup with legend around her sedet super universum the whole world is her seat you read more into the medal than it is worth the woman is the church catholics have always called our church holy mother church and our mother an example would be from st cyprian of carthage who wrote in ad can anyone have god for his father who does not have the church for his mother hence the image of the church as a woman holding a cross and a cup which tell of the crucifxition of our lord and of the power of his blood the grail legend but also more significantly it shows that this is the cup of the new covenant in my blood which shall be shed for you and for many luke the cup represents the new covenant and holds the blood of redemption the fact that the woman is holding both and is said to have the whole world for her seat is that the catholic church is catholic that is universal and is found throughout the world and the church shows the crucifixtion and applies the blood of redemption to all mankind by this spread of hers thorugh which the holy sacrafice of the mass can be said and celebrated in all the nations as malachi predicted in malachi from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the gentiles and everywhere there is sacrafice and there is offered to my name a clean oblation for my name is great among the gentiles says the lord of hosts and so we acknowledge what st paul wrote for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you show the lord s death until he comes corinthians you are quite right about the identification of babylon the great mother of all harlots with rome i think we simply disagree as to what time period of rome the apostle john is talking about andy byler
