I wanted to wait a while until I came out in the public about this information. Yet, with tomorrow being a critical date as far as this theory is concerned, I feel it is my duty to inform ye of the knowledge that has been passed unto me. Take it for what you will.

(disclaimer: I could be wrong. I am not a prophet. I am not anything than who I am, a layman. Yet, increasingly throughout this research I am confident in this "theory".)

First, a few important docuмents that are important for this.

i) Look up "Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser" in google. Depending on how you search things on google, it should be the second link, or the one from "CathInfo" (I am not a Hobsonite, I find information wherever I can get it). In it is a short brief on Holzhauser's life, the holy man that he was, and his personal visions as well as the foundation in which the theory is built.

ii) https://archive.org/details/venerabilisserv00holzgoog
His work in Latin. A beautiful piece of art.

iii) https://archive.org/details/1610A.d.DouayOldTestament1582A.d.RheimsNewTestament_176
Next, is this link, which is the original Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible. In the back is a very handy time line of the Ages of the Old Testament. Use it when I reference the 5th Age later on.

And finally, the link above also contains the Bible! Which you can not only use on your spare time (it's a wonderful text) but you can also use it to look up the various Scriptures that I will quote in this passage.

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I won't go into too much detail here. If you want, you can either PM me or discuss the details of this theory with me on this thread. I would be more than glad to answer any questions, or hear any opinions/refutations on the theory.

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Ven. Holzhauser's argument is that the 7 Ages of the Church correspond to the7 Churches of Revelation, the 7 Ages of the Old Testament, the 7 Days of Creation, and the 7 gifts of the Holy Ghost.

Since we are living in the 5th Age currently, we shall start here. I also shall begin with the words of Holzhauser himself:

"'This,' says Holzhauser, 'is a state of trouble, desolation humiliation and poverty for the church. We may with just reason call it a state of purification, in which the Lord Jesus Christ has sifted His wheat, and will sift it again by wars, by ѕєdιтισns, by famines, by epidemics, and other scourges, by the tribulation and the poverty which He will suffer to weigh on the Latin church, by means of heretics and bad christians, who will take from her the greater part of her bishoprics and countless monasteries, especially the wealthier ones.

'The fifth day of creation, on which the earth brought forth birds, fishes, and beasts of the field, is a type of this epoch, wherein men, like to the birds of the air and the fishes of the water, give themselves up to license, sink to the level of the brute, and wallow in lust. In this lamentable state of the church, divine and human laws are without force, and made of light account; the doctrines and precepts of the church are despised; ecclesiastical discipline is not better observed by the priests, than political order is maintained by the people. Every one, like the beasts of the field, believes what he pleases, and doth what he wills.

'The correspondence of this period with the fifth age of the ancient world, from Solomon down to the Babylonish captivity, is extremely striking. Then Israel fell into idolatry, and Judah and Benjamin were alone true to the convenient. So in the times we speak of, a large portion of the Catholic population has fallen away from the true church; while a small number of good christians hath survived.'"

In the pdf docuмent I referred to that references Holzhauser, see p. 137 for the beginning of the whole text. The whole thing is a joy to read, anyway, and I did leave out some other parts, only leaving in what is absolutely necessary at this point in time.

Basically, the idea is this: the 5th Age of both Ages start with a schism, religious and secular wars follow suit, followed by a general lack of observance of the Law, ending with a disastrous event.

i) Split of the Kingdom: Protestant Revolution
ii) Wars of Punishment: Wars as a means of Punishment
iii) Lack of Observance of the Law: A large portion of Europe apostatizes
iv) Babylonian Captivity: Vatican II*

*I know this may cause controversy, but Vatican II has caused a significant alteration in the world around us as Catholics

Then taking this theory a bit further, one can add that the 7 Seals correspond to each Age (or transition between them).

Remember, I mentioned that the 7 Churches correspond to the 7 Ages of the Church.

Let us now consider Christ's message to the 5th Church, our Age, to Sardis:

1 And to the angel of the church of Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know thy works, and that thou hast the name of being alive. And thou art dead.

2 Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God.

3 Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.

4 But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

5 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

(Revelation, ch. III, verses I-VI)

Look at verse 5: make a note of the white garments. Also take note that in each age, a specific reward is given to each of the people who triumph or overcome the trials. In this case, again, it is the white garments.

Now, let us go to chapter vi...

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11 And white robes were given to every one of them one; And it was said to them that they should rest for a little time till their fellow servants and their brethren, who are to be slain even as they, should be filled up.

We see that the white robes appear again, in correspondence to the 5th Church. We also must take note that martyrdoms had exponentially increased during the 5th Age, especially considering the damage done by Luther and the French Revolution. Think of the prelates... the nuns... who gave their lives for the testimony of Christ.

An undeniable link is established between the 5th Church and the 5th Seal.

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Also keep in mind this same idea can be applied throughout. If you want me to further expound on this concept, either PM me or post on this thread for discussion.

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So, we come to the main event. Why, did I decide today was a good day, after a while of exploring the theory, to post this online?

We direct ourselves back to chapter vi of the Apocalypse...

12 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

13 And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

14 And the heaven departed as a book folded up. And every mountain, and the islands, were moved out of their places.

15 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:

16 And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

17 For the great day of their wrath is come. And who shall be able to stand?

(Revelation, ch. vi, verses xii-xvii)

This seal corresponds with our current time. It is, in this poor sinner's humble opinion, a prophecy of the three days of darkness.

What are the events that precede this? A great earthquake, the sun becoming black as a sackcloth of hair (solar eclipse), and the moon becoming as blood (blood moon).

For a while, I thought that the earthquake was also literally going to be an earthquake, as the other events will be. However, I took into account also that Holzhauser says: "...Per terrae motum intelligitur maxima commotio, turbatio, concussio, et convulsio Regni Christi supper terram."

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disclaimer: Holzhauser does, I might add in all fairness, offer alternative explanations to each of the clauses mentioned above (sun becoming black, moon turning red...). Which I concede as a possible reason why I very well may be wrong.

Continuing...

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Which loosely translates to "Whereby 'earthquake' is understood [to be] a most powerful commotion, confusion [disorder], shaking, and convulsion of the Kingdom of Christ [throughout?] Earth." (It's been a while since I was in Latin class.)

Many prophets speak of a great war that proceeds the three days of darkness. Some can also argue that WWIII has begun, and began a long time ago with the proxy war in Syria. (Look up General Wesley Clark and the Pentagon's plan to take out 7 nations in 5 years). It's been heating up and is due to heat up even further in the next month.

"The sun became black as sackcloth of hair..." Well, this explains a solar eclipse. "Moon become as blood." This explains a blood moon.

I was convinced that this could have happened last year but I was missing key information then that I possess now.

That there is a solar eclipse followed by a blood moon... and tomorrow is a solar eclipse.

Not only is it a solar eclipse, but it is one that involves a super moon, on the Spring equinox, which would have started the beginning of the Jєωιѕн calendar (I also am not a Christian "Zionist", I just find it interesting that it would be the beginning of the Jєωιѕн calendar). This event has never happened in recorded history.

Also, on April 4th, there is a blood moon. Not just any ordinary blood moon... but a blood moon on Holy Saturday.

There are also prophecies that exist that tell of an early spring (prophesied from Europe) that precedes the war. I've been looking at the weather in France/Spain/Britain for the last few weeks and there has been hardly a time when the weather has dipped below freezing.

There's also the prophecies that state the three days of darkness will happen in the spring as well. That they will occur on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday... in interruption of a most terrible war that is ensuing across the globe at that time. We are on the brink of such a war.

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In conclusion, I believe that this theory is very telling for the events that are about to unfold. I can be wrong. I can accept being wrong. None of you who read this has to believe me.

However, things just keep adding up to this end game. That's why I waited this long to publish this.

 

The Catholic Church is the True Church outside of which there is no salvation.

Our Lady of Good Success, pray for us.

http://shadowandsubstance.com/

As you can see from the link, although the northern Arctic Ocean (particularly the Faroe Islands) will see a total eclipse- The whole of Europe will, at least, experience a darkening of the Sun.

Dublin- 92% (close enough!)
Copenhagen- 84%
London- 87%
Paris- 81%!

Isaiah ch. xiii

1 The burden of Babylon which Isaias the son of Amos saw.

2 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.

3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.

4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.

5 To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.

7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

12 A man shall be more precious than gold*, yea a man than the finest of gold.

13 For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his fierce wrath.

14 And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

15 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.

16 Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.

17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

18 But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.

19 And that Babylon**, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.

20 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.

21 But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:

22 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.

*Note the value of the man: I will come back to that later
**This has been traditionally applied to the Persian take-over of Babylon. Yet, look at the prophetic context- it is within the timeline, remember

Voix Prophetiques, Abbe Curique of Metz, Anonymous prophecy:
"A terrible war will ensue. The enemy will come from the East like a flood. In the evening they will call 'Peace, Peace', but the next day they will be before our doors.

"There will be an early and beautiful spring in the year in which the war will start. The cows will walk through opulent grass in the meadows in April. Wheat can be harvested, but oats not any more.*

"The conflict, in which one half the world will oppose the other half, will not be of long duration. God will scare the warring factions by producing a terrible natural catastrophe."**

*First mention of early spring, I have other examples
**Great war, followed by three days of darkness

Sister Marie de Jesus Crucifice:

"All states will be shaken by war and civil conflict. During a period of three days of darkness, those who walk along the paths of deprivation will perish; only the fourth part of humanity will survive. The clergy, too will be greatly reduced in number, as most of them will die in the defense of the faith or their country."

Marie Dahenny de la Faudais:

"There will be three days of continuous darkness. During this fearful darkness only candles which have been blessed will burn. One candle will last for three days, but in the houses of the impious they will not burn. During these three days demons will appear in horrible and nauseating forms and will make the air resound with appalling blasphemies. Rays and flashes will penetrate through the streets at an unusual time of the year. The sea will reverse in foamy waves upon the Earth. Indeed, our planet will become one huge cemetery. The bodies of the impious as well as with those of the just will cover the soil. The famine which will follow will be enormous; all the vegetation of the earth will be destroyed as also will be three-fourths of mankind. The crisis will come suddenly and the disaster will be universal."

Marie de Terreaux de Lyon:

"These events will be preceded by a bad year. But, on the contrary, the year of the events will be an exceptionally fertile year, yet too few people will have remained on the earth to consume this abundance."

Hildegard von Bingen:

"The time is coming when princes and people will renounce the authority of the Pope. Individual countries will prefer their own Church rulers to the Pope. The German Empire will be divided. Church property will be secularized. Priests will be persecuted. After the birth of Antichrist heretic will preach their false doctrines undisturbed, resulting in Christians having doubts about their holy Catholic faith."*

"Toward the end of the world, mankind will be purified through sufferings. This will be true especially of the clergy, who will be robbed of all property.** When the clergy has adopted a simple manner of living, conditions will improve.

"A powerful wind will rise in the North carrying heavy fog and the densest dust by divine command and it will fill their throats and eyes so they will cease their savagery and be stricken with great fear.*** After that there will be so few men left that seven women will fight for one man, that they will say to the man: "Marry me to take the disgrace from me." For in those days it will be a disgrace for a woman to be without child, as it was by the Jєωs in the Old Testament.****

"Before the Comet comes*****, many nations, the good excepted, will be scoured with want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent by an earthquake, storm and tidal waves will be devastated. It will be divided, and in great part submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea, and lose its colonies in the east through a Tiger and a Lion. The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease. For in none of these cities does a person live according to the laws of God."

*good example of the 5th Age
**Holzhauser mentions this
***three days of darkness?
****Here is that mention of the fewness of men after the three days
*****There is also frequent mention of a "comet", although I have not researched it thoroughly enough to conclude that...

One can see the obvious parallels that exist within this literature, and how they correlate to the theory.

As time went on... the earlier prophets referred to the three days as either "the Day of the Lord" or a "natural catastrophe", a "great event"...

example:

St. Columbkille:

"Then a great event shall happen. I fail not to notice it: rectitude shall be its specious motive, and if ye be not truly holy, a more sorrowful event could not possibly happen."

His whole prophecy is a great one.

"Hearken, thou, until I relate things that shall come to pass in the latter ages of the world. Great carnage shall be made, justice shall be outraged, multitudinous evils, great suffering shall prevail, and many unjust laws will be administered. The time shall come when they will not perform charitable acts, and truth shall not remain in them, and truth shall not remain in them. They will plunder the property of the church, they will be continually sneering at each other, they will employ them at reading and writing. They will scoff at acts of humility; there will come times of dark affliction, of scarcity, monarchs will be addicted to falsehood. Neither justice nor covenant will be observed by any one people of the race of Adam; they will become hard-hearted and penurious, and will be devoid of piety. The clergy will become fosterers, in consequence of the tidings of wretchedness; churches will be held in bondage by the all-powerful men of the day. Judges will administer injustice, under the sanction of powerful, outrageous kings; the common people will adopt false principles.
 
Oh, how lamentable shall be their position! Doctors of science will have cause to murmur, they will become niggardly in spirit; the aged will mourn in deep sorrow, on account of the woeful times that shall prevail. Cemeteries shall become all red, in consequence of the wrath that will follow sinners; wars and contentions shall range in the bosoms of every family. Excellent men shall be steeped in poverty, the people will become inhospitable to their guests, the voice of the parasite shall be more agreeable to them than the melody of the harp touched by the sage’s finger. In consequence of the general prevalence of sinful practices, humility shall produce no fruit. The professors of science shall not be rewarded, amiability shall not characterize the people; prosperity and hospitality shall not exist, but niggardliness and destitution will assume their place. The changes of the seasons shall produce only half their verdure, the regular festivals of the Church will not be observed; all classes of men shall be filled with hatred and enmity toward each other.
 
The people will not associate affectionately with each other during the great festivals of the seasons; they will live devoid of justice and rectitude, up from the youth of tender age to the aged. The clergy shall be led into error by the misinterpretation of their reading; the relics of the saints will be considered powerless, every race of mankind will become wicked! Young women will become unblushing, the aged people will be of irascible temper; the kine will seldom be productive, as of old; lords will become murderers. Young people will decline in vigor, they will despise those who have hoary hair; there will be no standard by which morals may be regulated, and marriages will be solemnized without witnesses. Troublous shall be the latter ages of the world, the dispositions of the generality of men I will point out, from the time they shall abandon hospitable habits -- with the view of winning honor for themselves, they will hold each other as objects for ridicule.
 
The possessors of abundance shall fall through the multiplicity of their falsehoods; covetousness shall take possession of every glutton, and when satisfied their arrogance shall know no bounds. Between mother and daughter anger and bitter sarcasms shall continuously exist; neighbors will become treacherous, cold, and false-hearted towards each another. The gentry will become grateful, with respect to their trifling donations; and blood relations shall become cool towards each other; Church livings shall become lay property. Such is the description of the people who shall live in the ages to come; more unjust and iniquitous shall be very succeeding race of men. The trees shall not bear the usual quantity of fruit, fisheries shall become unproductive and the earth shall not yield its usual abundance. Inclement weather and famine shall come and fishes shall forsake the rivers. The people will be oppressed for lack of food, shall pine to death. Dreadful storms and hurricanes shall afflict them. Numberless diseases shall then prevail. Fortifications shall be built narrow during these times of dreadful danger.

"Then a great event shall happen. I fail not to notice it: rectitude shall be its specious motive, and if ye be not truly holy, a more sorrowful event could not possibly happen.

"I cannot observe after the death of Conn, aught but a sameness among his kindred clans, until the son of Ruadh from the glen appear, the span of the kingly reign shall be but brief. After the blameless son of Ruadh, Cathbarr from Cruachin shall assume the sovereign power, and though many fraudulent acts will be committed during his reign, he will be upon the whole friend to the church.

"After the conclusion of a long and blood rule of Ireland by England, the garment of death will descend and the rowing wheels will arrive. Ten hundred compartments shall be in the fleet, and each compartment shall contain ten hundred men. The armament will spread its forces over the sea and land and rear up mounds with mangled bones. They will inflict on their enemies a severe, flesh-hewing course of warfare to such a degree that scarce a man of them shall escape. The fleet of rowing vehicles will remain two short years and a half.

"This fleet that will come across the sea shall consist of ten ships, ten hundred fairy barks, ten hundred boats, ten hundred cock-boats and ten hundred spacious skiffs. The principal seaport belonging to the country abroad shall look to the west. Such a large assemblage of men never before met in the east or west; and never again shall such a muster congregate while Ireland is a sea girt island.

"The nobility shall sink into humble life before the great war; that war will be proclaimed against them from beyond the seas, by means of which the frantically-proud race shall be subdued. The enemies of the English shall be aroused into activity --- they who reside in the eastern and western parts of the world --- so that they will engage in a battle on the circuмscribed sea, in consequence of which the English will be defeated.

"A fleet belonging to a foreign country will come hither, manned by the descendants of Golimh of the gold-embroidered garments, they shall lay prostrate the Gauls of the ships, and liberate the people who have been held in bondage. This fleet that shall arrive here from the east, cannot be impeded by the mighty ocean; through the impetuosity of its noisy breathing, its strange appearance shall be marked by flaming mouths. They will engage in furious conflict, it shall be a wonder that it will not be a mutual slaughter, the conflict of those who will come hither to sever the intricate knot.

"After the English shall be defeated in this battle, they shall be harassed from every quarter; like a fawn surrounded by a pack of voracious hounds, shall be the position of the English among their enemies. The English afterwards shall dwindle down into a disreputable people, and every obstacle shall be opposed to their future prosperity; because they did not (rather: as long as they do not) observe justice and rectitude, they shall be forever after deprived of power! Three warnings will be given them before their final fall, the burning of the Tower of the great kings; the conflagration of the dockyard of the English, and the burning of the Treasury where gold is deposited."

Well, of course regardless of this information we should always be moved to penance, works of charity, etc. I am not doing this to scare anyone.

The purpose of expounding this theory is for a proper understanding of the current times. Having an understanding is beneficial to being able to "see through the façade", so to speak.

Also, I encourage people to do their own research into this as well. Why does the 4th Age correspond to the 4th Church so well? How many miles and how much time separated the different three days of darkness prophecies? What has God have in store for our future?

Are these not questions that God wants us to ask? "Do not despise prophecy..."

Just because I am not a scientist, does not mean that there is absolutely no importance in the study of true science, science that confirms God.

Just because I am not a mathematician does not mean that the study of numbers has no value. Without mathematicians and scientists, we would not have the computers we are using right now.

So, to answer the second part of the question, just because a study may not, per say, be relevant in your life, does not automatically make it irrelevant in the bigger picture. For we all are assigned different roles...

Also, a due note before I continue on...

The seven candles and the seven candlesticks are what represent the 7 Ages of the Church, which are then paralleled to the 7 Churches of Asia, etc.