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"We Are Warned- The prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny" which can be read in its entirety here. The webmaster would like to gratefully thank E.A. Bucchianeri for her work in compiling and adapting the information for this website. May God reward her for her efforts.]
Marie-Julie Jahenny was born in Coyault on February the 12th 1850 in the village of Blain in Brittany, France. When she was three or four, her family moved to a cottage in a hamlet called La Fraudais just northeast of Blain where she lived for the rest of her life. She was the eldest of five children, and as with many of God’s chosen souls, she came from a humble background. Her parents, Charles and Marie Boya, were hardworking and pious peasants. Little did they suspect that their daughter would be granted an extraordinary number of graces by Heaven and be given a special mission: to spread the love of the Cross and the importance of holy suffering, becoming a victim soul to make reparation to God and save sinners. Through her Heaven would remind the world of the coming chastisements foretold by so many other saints and mystics, and forewarned those who would listen on how to prepare both spiritually and temporally, calling to mind once again the numerous past prophecies regarding the appearance of a Great Monarch, a saintly ruler beloved by Heaven who would restore the Roman Catholic Faith after years of chastisements, persecution and desolation in union with an Angelic Pontiff who would reign over the Roman Catholic Church in the final days before the appearance of the Antichrist. This promised final time of peace and triumph would be the greatest that the Church and the world has ever known.
Marie-Julie of the Crucifix, Virgin of the Cross: Her Holy MissionThe first sign of the extraordinary life destined for Marie-Julie began at a very young age when at church she heard an interior voice say: “Stay a little longer with Me.” From that time on she was drawn to the tabernacle and would spend long hours of prayer in the church, or find a quiet place to pray and meditate. When she was older she entered the Third Order of St. Francis and was always the perfect model of modesty, piety and spiritual perfection for the parish, receiving Holy Communion with the “devotion of an angel” according to witnesses.
In February 22, 1873, just before Marie-Julie turned twenty-three, she grew seriously ill and was on the point of death. Our Lady appeared to her and said she would be healed, but also asked if she would be willing to suffer the same agonies as her Son. Marie-Julie accepted to offer herself as a victim soul. Our Lady appeared again on March 15th and asked a second time if she was willing to suffer, and Marie-Julie replied once more that she was willing. The agonies she promised to undergo were foretold in advance, allowing witnesses to see the appearance of the miraculous wounds. The Five Wounds were the first of the stigmata she received, which appeared on March 21st 1873. However, more agonies were to come. She received the Crown of Thorns on October 5th, and on November 25th she received the Wound Our Lord suffered on His Shoulder when He carried His Cross. The Wounds of Our Lord’s Scourging then manifested on her back December 6th, and on January 12th 1874 not long into the New Year she received painful marks on her wrists where Our Lord’s hands were held bound, and also, a wound over her heart. Two days later she received additional scourge marks on her ankles, legs and forearms, two days after, she suffered two scourge stripes on her side. The Passion of Our Lord manifested itself on her body by degrees. However, a new and mysterious wound appeared on the ring finger of her right hand on February 20th 1874: it was an espousal ring in blood showing that she had been chosen by Our Lord as His Spiritual Spouse. One final and most astounding stigmata mark then appeared on December 7th also seen by witnesses, a wound that was not manifested with other stigmatists of the Church: a cross and a flower appeared on her chest with the words ‘O Crux Ave’, (Hail to the Cross), accompanied by extraordinary perfumes emanating from her body.
On June 25, 1875 Our Lord promised her: “I will not be long in making known to you My secrets. Soon the secret will be discovered and the whole world will witness My love and My Power.” Three days later Our Lord further promised: “I will operate greater miracles for you than for your sister Margaret Mary.” (St. Margaret Mary)
(Marie-Julie with the stigmata. The espousal ring can be seen on her right ring finger.)
A new name was accorded her as so often displayed in the Scriptures when God calls a chosen soul to a new way of life in His service, for she humbly replied during an ecstasy dated March 14, 1876 that St. Francis of Assisi appeared with a white stone, apparently, a great cornerstone for the great and holy work of the Cross that was to begin at La Fraudais. Our Lord blessed the stone, then angels brought a book displaying her new name in golden letters: “I see, my dear Spouse, this place marked where I am going to keep in your presence. This stone is white, carved, stone brought from heaven by my Seraphic Father (St. Francis). Our Lord has blessed it, angels surround Him. Other angels bring an open book, written in letters of gold and blood. I see signed my name at the top of the book. Tell me what that means, I see my name, 'Marie-Julie of the Crucifix'.” Marie-Julie then revealed the mystic book would not be opened until seven months after her death, only then would the work of the Cross, that started during her lifetime, would begin to spread in earnest, saving many souls.
As if to proclaim Marie-Julie in her mission as victim soul and spouse of Christ, the Eternal Father asked her “what her name is” on August 1, 1876.
“I am Marie-Julie of the Crucifix, virgin of the Cross, the great sign of the sinful (i.e. the greatest of sinners), me, Madeleine repentant, contrite, penitent and forgiven, my dear Spouse who promised grace to whom He gave the flower. He made me His spouse. It is I that He will soon reap the harvest of the Cross, of suffering, of the Eucharist. (...)”
Doctor Imbert-Gourbeyre recounts one remarkable ecstasy confirming this mystic betrothal dated January 29, 1877 wherein the Eternal Father approved His Son’s spouse, blessing her and His Son in an extraordinary manner, uniting them forever in union with the Holy Spirit. Marie-Julie was brought up into the Second Heaven where she saw Our Lord seat Himself on a throne. The Eternal Father came down with a beautiful flower decorated with a rich chain. The flower had words on it which read, ‘Flower called by Jesus to the Eternal Father’, which the Eternal Father offered to her. Jesus then invited His Father to come to His Throne and the Father came down attended by all the Lights of the Holy Spirit. The Father presented all the Lights to His Son, and His Sacred Heart became more radiant than ever before. Jesus Thanked His Father for His Divine Illumination and directed Marie-Julie to do the same. The Eternal Father than asked her: “My daughter, the lights of My Divine Son will be lights for your heart. How long will you stay in the Heart of My Son?” Marie-Julie replied if this was a question that her love would endure, she answered it would endure forever. Jesus then asked her how much she wanted to repose in His Heart, and she replied: “I want to be every hour of my life trapped in the loving wound of My Divine Spouse.” The Eternal Father replied: “My Son, take this heart now and forever.” Jesus in turn raised His Hand to His Father and replied: “Your Holy Will, Father, is accomplished.” Jesus then turned to Marie-Julie: “My spouse, you will be at every hour in My Divine Heart. You will see its cruel tearings, you will also feel My powerful Love. Your heart is mine. Let me put a nail in your heart.” Marie-Julie immediately said to Him take it and do with it what He pleased, even to tear it, promising never to take it back from Him. Our Lord took it, presented it to His Father, Who in turn said to the angels of the Second Heaven: “This is the heart of the spouse of My dear Son. Come worship the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Who is in her heart.” The Eternal Father then blessed the mystic nail with the words: “My Son, I want to be present at the sacrifice of the heart of your spouse and I want to see the wound of love.” Jesus then removed every fibre of love in Marie-Julie’s heart and made the sign of the cross on her heart. Her heart opened in the shape of a cross wherein the blessing was passed through. Jesus then placed down into the very bottom of her heart a beautiful golden nail, the top shaped like a cross. As it passed, the nail increased her love for the Holy Eucharist and the Cross. The Eternal Father then exclaimed: “O My Son, how beautiful is the wound of the heart of Your spouse! It is the wound of love.” Our Lord then pierced her heart twice with the nail and removed it. The Eternal Father took the nail and gazed lovingly at it since Jesus had removed all the love from Marie-Julie’s heart with it, then He placed all her love in the Heart of His Son, saying: “Daughter of the Holy Spirit, you will nevermore love yourself, you will have the love of Jesus alone.” He gave the nail back to Jesus who pierced her heart a third time. Jesus pierced His Heart at the same time and they became mingled together. Marie-Julie felt an immense love. Finally, the Eternal Father created a chain in the shape of a cross, and placed it in the Sacred Heart of His Son and the heart of Marie-Julie, uniting them in Love.
Later Our Lord would call her by the special name given her as seen in another text dated February 22, 1877: “Marie-Julie of the Crucifix, come and stay in My loving Wound.” In humility, she was afraid to approach the Wound in His Heart due to her human misery, but Our Lord invited her again: “Come My spouse crucified, come to receive these sweet consolations.” He also declared: “Tu es davantage mon élue,” “You are (of) My highest elect.”
Our Lord would later reveal to Marie-Julie her mission on October 27, 1887 with St. Margaret Mary accompanying Him: “Victim of My Sacred Heart (speaking to St. Margaret Mary) and you, victim of My Cross, (Marie- Julie), you are not chosen for the same work. Blessed Margaret Mary was chosen to publish the glory of My Sacred Heart, and you, you are chosen to publish the glory of My Cross. She is the victim of My Sacred Heart, you are the victim of My Cross. The Work of My Cross is beautiful and grand, it will quickly follow the Work of the Sacred Heart.”
Apparently, Monseigneur Fournier, the local Bishop of Nantes began an immediate investigation into the gradual appearances of Marie-Julie’s miraculous stigmata and her extraordinary ecstasies during the early 1870s when they first appeared, entrusting the necessary medical investigations to Doctor Imbert-Gourbeyre, a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Clermont-Ferrand. When he asked her what she saw when she received the stigmata she answered:
“When I received the stigmata, Our Lord appeared to me with radiant wounds, it was as if a sun surrounded them. A luminous ray came out of each Wound and struck my hands, feet and side, at the end of each ray there was a drop of red Blood. The ray that left the side of Our Lord was twice as wide as the others and was shaped like a lance. The pain I felt was great, but it lasted barely one second.”
The doctor quickly observed that in the case of Marie-Julie, her wounds were not of a natural or self-inflicted kind, and were indeed supernatural in origin, writing to the bishop that, “There was no fraud in La Fraudais.” Bishop Fournier also agreed with the doctor’s findings as seen by a letter he wrote to him on June 6th 1875:
“The reports that I receive daily on Marie-Julie show me more and more the action of God on this soul. He grants graces of an obvious supernatural order. At the same time she grows in virtue and noble sentiments. The natural and human disappear in her, and she often speaks to people she sees or who are referred to her giving instructions which are not in keeping with her normal state (in life). Therefore be confident, dear Doctor, the time will come when Marie-Julie herself will be the proof.... She is sincere: what she manifests is supernatural. I see nothing but good, edifying and in conformity with the principles of spirituality. Therefore it is God who favours her, you maybe sure it will turn out well.”
(Bishop Fournier who declared Marie-Julie’s stigmata and ecstasies were of a supernatural order.)
Doctor Imbert-Gourbeyre continued his investigations years afterwards and witnessed many miraculous events. The stigmata bled every Friday, then later, only on Good Fridays, but the pain of the various wounds continued to increase, particularly on Fridayshttps://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2015/07/marie-julie-jahenny-breton-stigmatist.html
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