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Lightening above St. Peter's, 5-5-25
« on: May 17, 2025, 01:23:05 PM »
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  • Novus Ordo Watch  @NovusOrdoWatch
    May 6
    Lightning above St. Peter's early on May 5, 2025: "The lightning bolt came down upon the dome of St. Peter’s, but did not strike it, as in 2013. Rather, it divided into three almost equal parts, a bolt descending, then splitting into two bolts continuing to descend" - https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-34-2025-monday-may-5-lightning/… Photograph copyright by Marilis A. Pineiro. 

    https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-34-2025-monday-may-5-lightning/
    Letter #34, 2025, Monday, May 5: Lightning

    The 9th and last of the “Novemdiales” Masses in prayer and mourning for the death of Pope Francis was celebrated yesterday St. Peter’s Basilica, as I wrote yesterday evening. It was celebrated by French Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, 73, a respected Church diplomat who was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Francis in 2015. He is the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in the Roman Curia.


    There is just one day now — Tuesday — before the beginning of the papal conclave on Wednesday, May 7.

    Another lightning bolt on the cupola…

        At 2:49 am on the morning of Monday, May 5, 2025, I was awakened suddenly from a sound sleep by a huge thunderclap. It seemed that the entire city of Rome must have been shaken. “What the heck was that?” I thought, wondering whether the enormous sound might have been a bomb exploding. Then, through my window, I saw a massive lightning bolt light up the sky. It was about 2:50 a.m.
    Then quickly followed by a second massive thunderclap, and a second lightning bolt at 2:52, followed by a 3rd thunderclap. (I did not see the first lightning bolt, because I was sleeping, and was only awakened by the thunder that followed that first, unseen bolt.)
    Then it began to rain.  At 6 p.m. this afternoon on via delle Fornaci, by chance, in bright sunshine now (because the rain stopped early this morning) a young, smiling woman came up to me and said, “Hi! Do you remember me? I once visited your offices in Front Royal, Virginia!”
    “I do remember you!” I said. “But… I forget your name…”“I am Marilis, Marilis Pineiro,” she said. “Remember? I was the nun who used to work at the Washington nunciature when Archbishop Viganòwas there… you and I met when you visited him… Then I came to visit you…”
    “Ah!” I said, “yes… of course…”I asked Marilis to sit down with me for a moment to have a coffee and talk of old times…“Did you hear that thunderclap last night?” I asked. “It was so loud! It woke me up from a sound sleep…” “I did!” she said. “It was a tremendous blow, and woke me too. I went to the balcony of my apartment, just near here (she pointed up) and I could see the dome of St. Peter’s from my balcony. I snapped a picture just as another lightning bolt fell on the cupola…”
    “You took a picture of it!?!” I asked, incredulously. “Is it like that picture from the night Pope Benedict resigned in 2013, on February 11, at about 6 p.m.? May I possibly see it?”  “Sure, I have it right here on my cellphone.”  She showed the picture to me.


    The lightning bolt came down upon the dome of St. Peter’s, but did not strike it, as in 2013. Rather, it divided into three almost equal parts, a bolt descending, then splitting into two bolts continuing to descend.
    “Could you email that photo to me?” “Sure,” she said. And she did. “Could I publish it in one of my letters?” “Yes, sure,” she said.
    And then we began to speak about other things, about Archbishop Viganò, and about the late Pope Francis, and about the upcoming Conclave, and about our lives in general…The photo Marilis took is above…
    (Photograph copyright by Marilis A. Pineiro. Please credit her for any republication)    
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    Re: Lightening above St. Peter's, 5-5-25
    « Reply #1 on: May 17, 2025, 01:25:33 PM »
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  • Interesting. Maybe it’s a warning, not a judgment.  


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    Re: Lightening above St. Peter's, 5-5-25
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  • Before the sack of Rome in 1527, lightning struck the Vatican, and this was universally taken as an inauspicious omen.

    In 1860 and 1870, in a violent siege by Italian Freemasonic forces, the Holy See had its Papal States (about a tenth of Italy) stolen.  From 1870 to 1929 the Popes refused to leave the Vatican, and called themselves prisoners in the Vatican. 
    On February 11, 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed between the Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See, creating the newly formed territory of the present day city state of Vatican City. 

    Benedict XVI resigned on February 11, 2013, marking the 84th anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Treaty.  A few hours later, lightning struck the Vatican not once, but twice.


    What followed was a "double papacy" where there were 2 " men in white."  Now that the 2  "men in white" are dead, the day after the last of 9 Masses for Francis, this interesting lightening with the 2 branches falling on either side of St. Peter's Basilica.


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