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The official painted model of Junith Eruita's Pulpit of Saint Holline’s Basilica has a bunch of High Gothic script on the side and I am struggling to decypher it.

Part of the issue is that the text is in four parts. There are upper and lower scrolls on the left side of the model (all directions assume the viewer is looking at the model from the front) and upper and lower scrolls on the right side. It could be argued that all of the text on the left side goes together, or it could be argued that the upper and lower scrolls continues on either side of the eagle statue. It is also possible that each of the four are supposed to be separate. I have reproduced the text below:

♦DURA♦EX♦FIDES♦.................♦SANCTUM♦ET♦VERUM♦

♦CORDA♦INCDENDIUM♦ ........♦DOMINA♦MARTYRIS♦

If you take each one separately then they mean something like:

HARDENED BY FAITH.........HOLY AND TRUE

HEARTS BURNING..............MARTYRED LADY

However, the meanings change slightly if you start combining them, and I am not sure of the original intention.

Can anyone come up with any better translations, or indentify the correct way of combining the phrases?

Thanks!

Eruita is the Canonness Superior of the Order of the Martyred Lady, so that explains the last bit.

The rest is just the usual Imperial Creed mumbo jumbo.

The ‘hearts burning’ presumably is meant to be ‘Fiery Heart’, the original name of the order before it was renamed to Our Martyred Lady.

I agree with Gert that the first two are probably just Imperial Creed mumbo jumbo.

Yeah, I guess you guys are right.

I did notice the similarity to Fiery Heart, but I am pretty sure that 'Corda' is plural.

Just because you're aware of that, doesn't mean the sculptor is/was.

Yeah, I'm not convinced there's too much of a plan anytime there's High Gothic involved.

High Gothic is also not Latin. It's Cool Latin where it's used exclusively for cool names even if it doesn't make sense in actual Latin.

When I pained my Junith, I just put 'Stop me and buy one' into a Latin translator and went with that.

The official painter probably just put those exact words into google translate and then started painting.

Good enough for the vibes.