Archive doesn't appear to have an English translation, rather only a blurb in this book, which starts on page 175:


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The Christian Trumpet

1875


Chapter VII: Prophetical previsions and predictions of the venerable Bartholowew Holzhauser


Interestingly, on page 176:

This venerable man divides the periods and the duration of the Church from Jesus Christ until the end of the world into seven ages or seven different epochs. He founds this seven-fold division on the seven churches of Asia, the seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the seven seals, seven spirits, seven trumpets, seven plagues of the Apocalypse, and also on the seven days of creation mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis. According to his statement, the first age or special epoch of the Church begins from Jesus Christ and lasts until the first persecution under the cruel pagan emperor, Nero; the second, from Nero to Constantine the Great ; the third, from Constantine till Charlemagne; the fourth, from Charlemagne to Charles V., the pontificate of Leo X., and the heresy of Martin Luther ; the fifth age, from Luther to the Great Pope, Papa Angelicus , and the Great Monarch; the sixth will open at the death of these two great men, and shall last till the last persecution of Antichrist ;

I know we are all looking for stuff that makes us feel better, but

I'm open to whatever God decides and won't be putting him into a box according to individual interpretations of private revelation,

so I'm wondering how this fits with Sacred Scripture and Traditional Catholic teaching?

Roman Catholic (the majority of Christendom), Eastern Orthodox, & many Protestant denominations  teach #3 & #4 or a combination of the two. Chart #1 & #2 are reserved for a minority of mainly Protestant denominations. To the point, we await the last judgment, preceded by calamity

Fitzpatrick Informer
@FitzInfo
Feb 12

"I may be reaching here, but if you substitute the New Pope/Great Monarch in the Fatima timeline with an anti-Christ, the Church would be set up for a massive deception (likely preceded by a false liberation)."


The Fatima (private revelation) "prophetic" timeline seems more consistent with #1. Therefore, it appears to be premillennialist, if anything. If correct, this would make the Fatima timeline inconsistent with Roman Catholic amillennialist teaching.



See full thread:
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Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser was a holy priest of the seventeenth century, founder of an Institute for the formation of priests approved by Pope Innocent XI in 1680. Holzhauser accurately predicted the execution of Charles I of England and the persecution of the Catholic Church in England for 120 years. (Prohibition of Mass under penalty of death lasted from 1658 until 1778.) The docuмents for his cause of canonization attribute miracles of healing to him. In one of his works, Venerable Holzhauser divided the history of the Church into seven periods and situated the seventeenth century Church in the fifth of these periods. He wrote:
During the fifth period, we saw only calamities and devastation; oppression of Catholics by tyrants and heretics; execution of Kings, and cօռspιʀαcιҽs to set up republics[32]…. Are we not to fear, during this period, that the Mohammedans will come again, working out their sinister schemes against the Latin Church?… During this period men will abuse the freedom of conscience conceded to them… there will be laxity in divine and human precepts. Discipline will suffer. The holy canons will be completely disregarded, and the clergy will not respect the laws of the Church. Everyone will be carried away and led to believe and to do what he fancies, according to the manner of the flesh[33]… But, by the hand of God Almighty, there occurs so wondrous a change during the sixth period that no one can humanly visualize it [34].
The sixth period of the Church will begin with the powerful Monarch and the holy Pontiff . . . and it will last until the revelation of Antichrist. In this period, God will console His Holy Church for the affliction and great tribulation she has endured during the fifth period. All nations will become Catholic. Vocations will be abundant as never before, and all men will seek only the Kingdom of God and His justice. Men will live in peace, and this will be granted because people will make their peace with God. They will live under the protection of the Great Monarch and his successors.
All nations will come to worship God in the true Catholic and Roman faith. There will be many Saints and Doctors on earth. Peace will reign over the whole earth because God will bind Satan for a number of years until the days of the Son of Perdition. No one will be able to pervert the Word of God since, during the sixth period, there will be an Ecuмenical Council which will be the greatest of all councils. By the grace of God, by the power of the Great Monarch, by the authority of the Holy Pontiff, and by the union of all the most devout princes, atheism and every heresy will be banished from the earth. The Council will define the true sense of Holy Scripture, and this will be believed and accepted by everyone (emphasis added).[35]
It is difficult for twenty-first century readers to imagine how unbelievable Venerable Holzhauser’s predictions of the rise of republics must have seemed to seventeenth century Catholics in nations where Christian monarchies had existed for many centuries. In our proud and unwavering faith in progress, we fail to consider that the restoration of monarchies in the future is no less likely today than the prophesied rise of republics in the seventeenth century. Moreover, Venerable Bartholomew was not the only authentic Catholic prophet to predict a future Ecuмenical Council in similar terms

https://www.thepostil.com/the-prophecies-of-the-venerable-bartholomew-holzhauser/

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The Christian Trumpet

1875



SECOND PART.

TRIUMPH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.


Chapter VII: Prophetical previsions and predictions of the venerable Bartholowew Holzhauser


Quoting more:


Pages 177 to 178

We are at present more immediately concerned with the fifth age of the Church. According to the interpretation of Holzhauser, this age shall soon come to an end. During this epoch, he says, faithful Catholics shall be persecuted and oppressed by heretics and by bad Catholics. Everywhere shall be experienced deplorable calamities and terrible wars. Kingdoms shall be disorganized, thrones upset, monarchs killed. . Men will conspire to proclaim republics, and finally the Church of Christ and his sacred ministers shall be despoiled of their, property.

Are these tho predictions of prophecy, or the faithful records of history? Observe -that the predictions were made by the Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser about three hundred years ago. They have been literally verified, the last portion of them under our own eyes. Now that, like Thomas, we have seen and touched, shall we believe ? Let us now pass to his more hopeful and consoling promises for the immediate future.

At the sixth epoch of the Church, all unexpectedly shall, through the all-powerful hand of God, be effected such a wonderful change as to surpass all human imagination and expectation. There will be a great and holy pope, and a powerful monarch, who will come as the envoy of God to put an end to disorder. He will subject everything to his power, and will manifest a great zeal for the welfare of the true Church of Jesus Christ. All heresies shall be banished to hell, whence they issued ; the Turkish Empire shall be broken up, and all nations shall come to and worship their God in the true Catholic and Roman faith. Then true love, concord, peace, and perfect happiness will reign supreme upon earth.

That powerful monarch will then be able to consider almost the entire world as his own inheritance. With God’s special assistance he will free the earth from the presence of wicked men, will repair all ruins and banish all evil It is he who will help to carry to a happy conclusion, after having passed through many tribulations, a general council that shall be the greatest and the last of all. He will use all his authority to have all its decrees executed. The God of heaven will bless him, and will put everything in his hands. (Interpretation of the Apocalypse, Latin edition of Bamburg, 1784, Tom. I. page 184, and Tom. II. page 6.)

CHAPTER XV.  PROPHECY OP JANE LE ROYER, IN RELIGION SISTER OF THE NATIVITY.

Page 115 to 117

“My father, God has manifested to me the malice of Lucifer, and the perverse and diabolical intentions of his emissaries (secret societies) against the Holy Church of Jesus Christ. At the command of their master these wicked men have traversed the earth like furies, with the intention of preparing the way and the place for Antichrist, whose reign is approaching. Through the corrupted breath of this proud spirit they have poisoned the minds of men. Like persons infected with pestilence, they have reciprocally communicated the evil to each other, and the contagion has become general. [Is not here well described the pestilential influence of the International sect ?]

“ What convulsions ! what scandals !

“ The thick vapors which I have seen rising from the earth, and obscuring the light of the sun , are the false maxims of irreligion and of license (falsely called liberty), which in part originated in France, and in part came to us from abroad. These have succeeded in confounding all sound principles, and in spreading everywhere such darkness as to obscure the light both of faith and of reason. The storm began in France, which shall be the first theatre of its ravages, after having been its forge.

“ But the Church in council assembled (prophecy of the Ecuмenical Vatican Council) shall one day strike with anathemas, pull down and destroy the evil principles of that criminal constitution. (The impious revolutionary constitutions of modern times founded on the pretended rights of man, which make him independent of God.)

“ I saw in God’s essence a numerous assembly of ministers of the Church, who, like an army in battle array, and like a firm and unflinching column, shall sustain the rights of the Church, and of their Head, aud shall re-establish its ancient discipline. . . . .

“ What consolation, what joy, for all the truly faithful ! . . . .

“ I saw in the Divinity a great power, guided by the Holy Spirit, which shall restore right and order. (France through its great monarch.)

“ All false religions shall be abolished. All the abuses of the Revolution shall be destroyed; the altars shall be re-established, and religion shall more than ever flourish.” Amen

CHAPTER II.  PROPHECY OP ST. CESARIUS.

Pages 148 to 149

“ When the entire world, and in a special manner France, and in France more particularly the provinces of the north, of the east, and above all that of Lorraine and Champagne, shall have been a prey to the greatest miseries and trials, then the provinces shall be succored by a prince who had been exiled in his youth, and who shall recover the crown of the lilies. Juvenis captivatus qui recuperabit coronam lilii.

“ This prince shall extend his dominion over the entire universe. Dominabitur per universum orbem . At the same time there will be a great Pope, who will be most eminent in sanctity and most perfect in every quality. Per voluntatem Dei assumetur unus Papa , vir sanctissimus, et in omni perfectione perfedus. This Pope shall have with him the great monarchy a most virtuous man, who shall be a scion of the holy race of the French kings. Habebit suum virum sandissimum qui erit de reliquis sanctissimi Francorum sanguinis Begum.

This great monarch will assist the Pope in the reformation of the whole earth. Many princes and nations that are living in error and impiety shall be converted, and an admirable peace shall reign among men during many years, because the wrath of God shall be appeased through their repentance, penance, and good works. There will be one common law, one only faith, one baptism, one religion. All nations shall recognize the Holy See of Rome, and shall pay homage to the Pope. But after some considerable time fervor shall cool, iniquity will abound, and moral corruption shall become worse than ever, which shall bring upon mankind the last and worse persecution of Antichrist, and the end of the world.”

CHAPTER IX.  VISIONS OF ELIZABETH MORA.

Pages 186 to 189

“ On the Feast of St. Peter, 29th of June, 1820, whilst I was praying,” our venerable Elizabeth says, " for the wants of the Church and the conversion of sinners, amongst whom I am the first, I was ravished in spirit, and drawn very near to God. Through an infinite light I was so intimately united to him that I lost all sentiments of myself The sweet impressions of the love of God replenished me with an inexpressible joy and satisfaction. My soul, however, remained calm in these tokens of Divine kindness. Then it seemed to me to behold the heavens opening, and St. Peter, prince of the Apostles, coming down, surrounded with great glory and by a numerous escort of heavenly spirits, singing canticles. St. Peter was dressed in his pontifical robes, and held in his right hand the pastoral staff, with which he used to draw upon the earth an immense cross ; at the same time the angels sang these words of the Psalmist, Constitues eos principes super omnem terram , — You will constitute them princes over the whole earth.

“After this the holy Apostle touched with his staff the four extremities of the cross, from which instantly sprung up four beautiful trees loaded with blossoms and fruits. These mysterious trees had the form of a cross, and were surrounded by a splendid light. Then I comprehended in the depth of my soul that St. Peter had produced these four symbolic trees to the end that they may serve as a place of refuge to the little flocks of the faithful friends of Jesus Christ, and in order to preserve them from the fearful punishment which shall convulse the whole earth. All good Christians shall then be protected under these trees, together with all those religious persons who shall have faithfully preserved in their hearts the spirit of their order. I say the same thing in relation to the secular clergy and to all other persons of every class who shall have kept in their heart the Catholic faith, — they shall all be protected. But woe, to those religious who do not observe their rule ! thrice unhappy they ! for they shall all be struck by that terrible punishment. I say the same to all secular clergy, and to all classes of people in the world who give themselves to a life of pleasure, and who follow the false maxims of modern ideas, which are opposed to the holy precepts of the gospel. These wretched people, who through their scandalous conduct deny the faith of Jesus Christ, shall perish under the weight of the indignant arm of God’s justice. Not one of them shall be able to escape the punishment.

“I beheld those good Christians, who had sought a refuge under those mysterious trees, in the form of beautiful lambs confided to the care and vigilance of St. Peter, their good shepherd, testifying to him the most humble and most respectful obedience. As soon as St Peter, the prince of the Apostles, had gathered the flock of Jesus in a place of safety, he reascended into heaven, accompanied by legions of angels. Scarcely had they disappeared, when the sky was covered with clouds so dense and dismal that it was impossible to look at them without dismay. On a sudden there burst out such a terrible and violent wind, that its noise seemed like the roars of furious lions. The sound of the dreadful hurricane was heard over the whole earth. Fear and terror struck not only men, but the very beasts.

“ All men shall rise one against the other, and they shall kill one another without pity. During this sanguinary conflict the avenging arm of God will strike the wicked, and in his mighty power he will punish their pride and presumption. God will employ the powers of hell for the extermination of these impious and heretical persons who desire to overthrow the Church and destroy it to its very foundation. These presumptuous men in their mad impiety believe that they can overthrow God from his throne ; but the Lord will despise their artifices, and through an effect of his almighty hand he will punish these impious blasphemers by giving permission to the infernal spirits to come out from hell. Innumerable legions of demons shall overrun the earth, and shall execute the orders of Divine justice by causing terrible calamities and disasters; they shall attack everything ; they shall injure individual persons and entire families; they shall devastate property and alimentary productions, cities and villages. Nothing on earth shall be spared. God will allow the demons to strike with death those impious men, because they gave themselves up to the infernal powers, and had formed with them a compact against the Catholic Church.

" Being desirous of more fully penetrating my spirit with a deeper sentiment of his divine justice, God showed to me the awful abyss ; I saw in the bowels of the earth a dark and frightful cavern, whence an infinite number of demons were issuing forth, who under the form of men and beasts came to ravage the world, leaving everywhere ruins and blood. Happy will be all true and good Catholics ! They shall experience the powerful protection of the holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, who will watch over them lest they may be injured either in their persons or their property. Those evil spirits shall plunder every place where God has been outraged, despised, and blasphemed ; the edifices they profaned will be pulled down and destroyed, and nothing but ruins shall remain of them.

“After this frightful punishment I saw the heavens opening, and St. Peter coming down again upon earth; he was vested in his pontifical robes, and surrounded by a great number of angels, who were chanting hymns in his honor, and they proclaimed him as sovereign of the earth. I saw also St. Paul descending upon the earth. By God’s command, he traversed the earth and unchained the demons, whom he brought before St. Peter, who commanded them to return into hell, whence they had come.

“ Then a great light appeared upon the earth, which was the sign of the reconciliation of God with man. The angels conducted before the throne of the prince of the Apostles the small flock that had remained faithful to Jesus Christ. These good and zealous Christians testified to him the most profound respect, praising God and thanking the Apostles for having delivered them from the common destruction, and for having protected the Church of Jesus Christ by not permitting her to be infected with the false maxims of the world. St. Peter then chose the new pope. The Church was again organized; religious orders were re-established; the private families of ordinary Christians, through their great fervor and zeal for the glory of God, became like the most exemplary religious communities. Such is the glorious triumph reserved for the Catholic Church; she shall be praised, honored, and esteemed by all men. Adi men shall become Catholics, and shall acknowledge the Pope as Vicar of Jesus. Christ. Amen.”

CHAPTER XI.  PROPHECY OF RODOLPHUS GEKNER.

Pages 192 - 193

“ Before the middle of the nineteenth century ѕєdιтισns shall arise in Europe, especially in France, Switzerland, and Italy. Republics will be proclaimed, monarchs will be killed, high and zealous ecclesiastics will be murdered, and religious persons will have to leave their monasteries and convents. Famine, pestilence, and earthquakes shall destroy many cities. Rome shall by wicked men be deprived of her sceptre. The Church of God will first be subject to pay tribute, then she will be despoiled of her temporalities.

Some time after the Pope shall be no more. [This as well as other prophecies seems very clearly to indicate a long vacancy in the holy Roman See.] A great prince of the North with a most powerful army will traverse all Europe, uproot all republics, and exterminate all rebels. His sword, moved by Divine power, will most valiantly defend the Church of Jesus Christ He will combat in behalf of the true orthodox faith, and shall subdue to his dominion the Mahometan Empire. A new pastor of the universal Church (Pastor Funalis) will come from the shore (of Dalmatia) through a celestial prodigy, and in simplicity of heart adorned with the doctrines of Jesus Christ. Peace will be restored to the world.”

Ven. Bartholomew Holzhauser (1613-1658)


https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_57.html

“These are evil times, a century full of dangers and calamities. Heresy is everywhere, and the followers of heresy are in power almost everywhere. Bishops, prelates, and priests say that they are doing their duty, that they are vigilant, and that they live as befits their state in life. In like manner, therefore, they all seek excuses. But God will permit a great evil against His Church: Heretics and tyrants will come suddenly and unexpectedly; they will break into the Church while bishops, prelates and priests are asleep. They will enter Italy and lay Rome waste; they will burn down the churches and destroy everything.…”


(OBSERVATION: Ven. Holzhauser notes this period of degradation will LAST A CENTURY.  He  predicts this century of heretical intrusions and moral laxity int he Church will apparently be nearing its climax or basically reaching its end when ROME IS BURNED AND LAID WASTE. In another prediction, Ven. Holzhauser says Satan will be bound for a time when the Great Monarch comes, which means SATAN will be given liberty BEFORE ROME BURNS AND THE RENEWAL BEGINS.  So, could this be another prediction of 'SATAN's CENTURY' as foreseen by Pope Leo XIII?  If so, re will be nearing the end of Satan's Century when Rome burns and is laid waste.)

“The Sixth Age of the Spirit commences with the powerful Monarch and the Holy Pontiff as previously mentioned and will last until the appearance of the Antichrist. This sixth epoch of the church – “the time of consolation” begins with the Holy Pope and the Powerful Emperor and terminates with the reign of Antichrist. This will be an age of solace wherein God will console His church after the many mortifications and afflictions she has endured in the Fifth period, for all nations will be brought to the unity of the True catholic faith. The sacerdocy will flower more than ever, and men will seek the kingdom of God in all solicitude. The Lord will give good pastors to the Church. Vocations will be abundant as never before and all men will seek only the kingdom of God and His justice. Men will live in peace and this will be granted because people will make their peace with God. They will live under the protection of the Great Monarch and his successors….”

“The Great Monarch will come when the Latin Church is desolated, humiliated, and afflicted with many heresies….”

“The Sixth Epoch of the World, which commences with the emancipation of the people of Israel and the restoration of the Temple and of the city of Jerusalem, will endure until the advent of Jesus Christ…For likewise, in this epoch, the people of Israel will be consoled to a very high degree by the Lord, our God, who will deliver them from the captivity of Babylon. The kingdoms, the nations, and the people will submit to the Roman Empire, furiously vanquished by the very powerful and very illustrious monarch who will govern during fifty-six years, rendering the peace of the universe and reigning alone until the advent of Jesus Christ and even after him. Thus, in the Sixth Age, God will delight his Church with the greatest prosperity…”

“The “angel” is the Great Monarch: “from heaven” means he will be a catholic: “clothed in clouds” implies he will be humble and modest; “rainbow” he will bring peace to the world; “sunshine” refers to his wisdom, talents and title; “feet” refers to his power and zeal; “Open book” he will rule with justice “Right and left foot” he will exercise power over all the world; “Lion Voice” he will put fear into the wicked. The “Golden Crown” refers to his Holy Roman Empire; “Cutlass” means his victorious army; the other “angel” refers to the pope (Angelic pastor). “Other angels” are the other helpers of the Great Monarch who will help him crush the Turks…”

“During the fifth period we saw only calamities and devastation, oppression of Catholics by tyrants and heretics, executions of kings and cօռspιʀαcιҽs to set up republics but by the hand of God almighty there occurs so wonderful a change during the sixth period that no one can humanly visualize it. The powerful Monarch, who is sent from God, will uproot every Republic. He will submit everything to this authority and he will show great zeal for the true church of Christ. The empire of the Mohamedans will be broken up and the monarch will reign in the east as well as in the west. All nations will come to worship God in the true and Catholic Roman faith. There will be many saints and doctors of the church on earth. Peace will reign over the whole earth because God will bind Satan for a number of years before the days of the Son of Perdition. No one will be able to pervert the word of God since during the sixth period there will be an ecuмenical council which will be the greatest of all councils. By the grace of God, by the power of the great Monarch, by the authority of the holy pontiff and by union of all the most devout princes atheism and every heresy will be banished from the earth. The council will define the true sense of Holy Scripture and this will be beloved and accepted by everyone.”

“When everything has been ruined by war; when Catholics are hard pressed by traitorous co-religionists and heretics, then the Hand of Almighty God will work a marvellous change, something apparently impossible according to human understanding. There will rise a valiant monarch anointed by God. He will be a Catholic, a descendant of Louis IX, yet a descendant of an ancient imperial German family, born in exile. He will rule supreme in temporal matters. The Pope will rule supreme in spiritual matters at the same time. Persecution will cease and justice shall rule. Religion seems to be suppressed, but by the changes of entire kingdoms it will be made more firm….He will root out false doctrines and destroy the rule of Moslemism. His dominion will extend from the East to the West. All nations will adore God their Lord according to the Catholic teaching. There will be many wise and just men. The people will love justice, and peace will reign over the whole earth, for divine power will bind Satan for many years until the coming of the Son of Perdition.”

“The reign of the Great Ruler may be compared with that of Caesar Augustus who became Emperor after his victory over his enemies, thereby giving peace to the world, also with the reign of Constantine the Great, who was sent by God, after severe persecution, to deliver both the Church and State. By his victories on water and land he brought the Roman Empire under subjection which he then ruled in peace”

"On account of a terrible war Germany will wail, France will be the cause of all the woe, Germany will be miserably wounded, all will be impoverished. England shall suffer much. The King shall be killed.

"After desolation has reached its peak in England peace will be restored and England will return to the Catholic faith with greater fervor than ever before.

(NOTE: apparently, a King of England will be killed during this conflict or on account of it, this conflict will cause great hardship and poverty for all.)

“[After a world war] will come a new period, in which two mighty ones will face each other. The wrangle between these two will begin in the second half of the twentieth century. It will overthrow mountains and silt up rivers. A great change will come to pass, such as no mortal man will have expected; Heaven and Hell will confront each other in this struggle, old states will perish and light and darkness will be pitted against each other with swords, but it will be swords of a different fashion. With these swords it will be possible to cut up the skies and split the earth. A great lament will come over all mankind and only a small batch will survive the storm, the pestilence and the horror. And neither of the two adversaries will conquer nor be vanquished. Both mighty ones will lie on the ground, and a new mankind will come into existence. God possesses the key to everything. Blessed is he who will then be able to praise him, having obeyed all his commandments. And the great monarch of the world will create new laws for the new mankind and will cause a new age to begin, in which there will be only one flock and one shepherd, and peace will be of long, long duration, for the glory of God in heaven and on earth…”

(NOTE: this section shows Ven. Holzhauser obviously believed in the Birch Tree Prophecies written by Windecke.)

“Now the Great Monarch also will dominate over all the beasts of the earth, that is to say over the barbarian nations, over the rebellious peoples, over the heretic republics and over all men dominated by their evil passions…”

“It is in that age that the relation of the sixth Spirit of the Lord will be known, that is to say the Spirit of Wisdom that God diffuses over all the surfaces of the globes in those times. For men will fear the Lord their God, they will observe the law and serve it with all their heart. The sciences will be multiplied and complete on the earth. The Holy Scriptures will be unanimously understood, without controversy and without the errors of heresies. Men will be enlightened, so much as in the natural sciences and in the celestial sciences…”

“Finally, the Sixth Church, the Church of Philadelphia, is the type of this sixth age, for Philadelphia signifies friendship of brothers, and again guarding the heritage in union with the Lord. Now all these characters convene perfectly in the sixth age, in which they will have love, concord and perfect peace and in which the powerful Monarch will have to consider almost the entire world as his heritage. He will deliver up the earth, with the aid of the Lord his God from all his enemies, of ruin and of all evil…”

Dear trad123,

You're now on my perpetual prayer list! What a favor you have done, by going through the material and posting it in the thread. 

May God reward you!

The Christian trumpet

1875


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Page 202 to 203

Papa Angelina, the Angelic Pope, who is so frequently mentioned in these prophecies, deserves some special attention. It seems that this future Pope, who is now living, is a native of Dalmatia (see prophecy). He is described as being a learned, humble, and self-denying Franciscan religious of Friar Minors. This is expressly foretold by the Venerable Fra Bartholomew da Saluzzo, whose long prophecy in odd Italian poetry Pius VI. so highly esteemed as to have it enclosed in a silver urn, which is preserved as a precious relic in Rome. In relation to this holy person, at the present moment living in obscurity, and unknown to die world, Fra Bartholomew says : “ Blessed friar of the Minorites, the Lord, after freeing thee from thy afflictions, will give thee great honor and glory. Fear not; thou shalt be endowed with very great courage, and pusillanimity shall fly from thee. Bear all thy trials with humble resignation, for the sake of the Lord. Reflect that he suffered more than thou, and he will communicate his power and strength to thee.”

Rodolphus Gekner, another prophetical seer, calls him Pastor Funalis, or Pope girded with a cord like the Friar Minors. John de Vatiguerro, another prophet, foretells that he will, like the Friar Minors, go about with bare feet, preaching to the people.

The Admirable Life of Mother Mariana

Volume II

by Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira (Author), Ph.D. Marian Therese Horvat (Translator)


Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres


Chapter 14

Pages 213 to 214

“Into His Hands the Scales of the Sanctuary Will Be Placed”

“Pray insistently without tiring and weep with bitter tears in the secrecy of your heart, imploring our Celestial Father that, for love of the Eucharistic Heart of my Most Holy Son and His Precious Blood shed with such generosity and by the profound bitterness and sufferings of His cruel Passion and Death, He might take pity on His ministers and quickly bring to an end those ominous times, sending to this Church the Prelate who will restore the spirit of its priests.


“My Most Holy Son and I will love this favored son with a love of predilection, and we shall gift him with a rare capacity, humility of heart, docility to divine inspirations, the strength to defend the rights of the Church, and a tender and compassionate heart, so that, like another Christ, he will assist the great and the small, without despising the more unfortunate souls who ask him for light and counsel in their doubts and hardships. With divine suavity, he will guide the souls consecrated to the service of God in the cloisters, making light the yoke of the Lord, Who said, ‘My yoke is sweet, and my burden light.’


“Into his hands the scales of the Sanctuary will be placed so that everything is weighed with due measure and God will be glorified.


“The lukewarmness of all the souls consecrated to God in the priestly and religious state will delay the coming of this Prelate and Father. This, then, will be the cause of the cursed Devil taking possession of this land, where he will achieve his victories by means of a foreign and faithless people, so numerous that, like a black cloud, it will obscure the limpid heavens of the then-Republic consecrated to the Most Sacred Heart of my Divine Son.

“With these people, all the vices will enter, which will attract in their turn every type of chastisement, such as plagues, famines, internal fighting and external disputes with other nations, and apostasy, the cause of the perdition of so many souls so dear to Jesus Christ and to me.

“In order to dissipate this black cloud that prevents the Church from enjoying the clear day of liberty, there will be a formidable and frightful war, which will see the bƖσσdshɛd of countrymen and foreigners, of secular and regular priests, and also of religious. That night will be most horrible, for, humanly speaking, evil will seem triumphant.

“This, then, will mark the arrival of my hour, when I, in a marvelous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss. Thus the Church and Country will finally be free of his cruel tyranny.”