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Trinity · « **on:** April 13, 2007, 09:24:25 AM »

a prophecy about a german anti pope who will lead many astray in the last days? I read mention of it and it's the first I heard of that prophecy.

Dawn · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2007, 10:52:49 AM »

A German Anti-Pope has been Predicted For Centuries
In his classic 1941 Imprimatured book, The Prophets and Our Times, Father Gerald Culleton includes the prediction
attributed to the 7th century Holy Catholic Merlin the Bard. The Catholic Prophet Merlin the Bard foretold:
"There will come a German Anti-Pope. Italy and Germany will be sorely troubled ..."
(Father Gerald Culleton, "The Prophets and Our Times," 1941 A.D., Fresno California, p. 132.)

There you go friend :reporter:

Trinity · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2007, 10:56:05 AM »

Thank you very much. Is that all that was said about it?

Dawn · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2007, 11:59:35 AM »

All that I could find. But, I know that I have a book on Catholic Prophecy that has a little. Just have to find it

antyshemanic · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2007, 02:04:38 PM »

In his classic 1941 Imprimatured book, The Prophets and Our Times, Father Gerald Culleton includes the prediction
attributed to the 7th century Holy Catholic Merlin the Bard.

The Catholic Prophet Merlin the Bard foretold:
"There will come a German Anti-Pope. Italy and Germany will be sorely troubled ..."
(Father Gerald Culleton, "The Prophets and Our Times," 1941 A.D., Fresno California, p. 132.)

Merlin Ambrosius ~
The legendary Celtic magus Merlin Ambrosius supposedly brought the stones of Stonehenge from Ireland to Salisbury Plain by magical levitation, and counseled King Arthur. He has had over 100 pseudo-epigraphic Latin and vernacular texts attributed to him. Most of those texts were produced in Italy. The best representation of such writings is Les Prophecies de Merlin, composed in Venice by an anti-imperialist Franciscan circa 1275. The ascribed prophecies were proscribed by the Council of Trent. The following excerpts pertain to the Grand Monarch:

"There will come a German Anti-Pope. Italy and Germany will be sorely troubled. A French King will restore the true Pope.

"After the destruction of England by seven kings there shall come a dreadful dead man, and with him a Royal Great Monarch of the best blood in the world and he shall set England on the right way and put out all heresies. He shall be the last King over England.
"When the tail of Virgo shall enter Leo, and Scorpio shall ascend the back of Sagittarius, the northern kingdoms shall end in lust; and the power of the Island Monarchies shall be harnessed.

"Cruel wars shall be scattered by the wind -- whose beginnings were by a staff: their growth and continuance by b******* -- and gulled by a revengeful hail...
"Those on whom these things shall come, for grief and sorrow pine away. A prince of royal stock shall come forth, crowned from the northern parts --- to his own people unexpected, but desired by foreigners --- who, because he shall bear a "rampant lion" shall therefore be called a lion. He shall advance his conquering armies against his enemies and by woeful successes shall harness the territories of neighbor Princes. He shall exceed Alexander the Great in virtue and Cyrus in success. He shall cross the sea and be saluted Emperor by many kings. A certain ancient city he shall lay level with the ground.

"In the meanwhile a powerful Prince out of the East shall provoke him to battle. Against whom the Lion shall march with all his forces and pitching his camp on the side of the Euphrates, shall await him. If the prince shall come over the river the Lion shall be overcome; but the Lion shall cross the river with his army and give his enemy a bloody defeat and be master of all the East.

"Whilst these things are happening, divers petty kings from India shall break into Syria with mighty armies. provided for battle, they shall wait for the Lion about the Valley of Jehosephat, where they shall, by him, be all wholly cut off. Not long afterwards the Lion himself will die in eminent piety, after having established the Kingdom of the Fugitives...

"There will be a Pope who will not dare so much as look at Rome. Similarly, one thing the Romans must understand, among others, is that before the death of the Pope, our Lord will make him suffer such disgrace that there will be nothing to compare with it. It is likewise necessary that the Romans know, among other things, that from that time on will begin their destruction, step by step, and that it will be because of their sins...

"Merlin saith that in England shall be seen many strange things, as preaching of traitors, great rain and wind, great hunger among the common people, great oppression of blood, great imprisonment of many men and great battle; so that there will be few or no quiet places to abide in; the Prince shall forsake men of the Church, Lords shall forsake righteousness... Religious men shall be thrust out of their houses; the common people for fear shall not know which way to turn; parents shall be hated by their children; men of worship shall have no reverence of their inferiors; chastity will be broken by maids, wives and widows, religious men and virgins, with more ill than I can tell of, from the which God will defend us."

Prophesies Regarding the Coming Great Catholic Monarch
http://www.todayscatholicworld.com/great-catholic-monarch.htm