Some quotes from the Church Fathers (and other saints) which support the coming Great Monarch and the return of the Holy Roman Empire. Then the fall of the Roman Empire, and the rise of the anti-christ. [my comments in blue]
St Methodius (4th cent) speaking of the a coming Great and Holy King
"A day will come when the enemies of Christ [freemasons] will boast of having conquered the whole world. They will say, "Christians cannot escape now!" But a great King will arise to fight the enemies of God. He will defeat them, and peace will be given to the world, and the Church will be freed from Her anxieties."
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St Remigius (5th cent), Bishop of France who baptized King Clovis and 3,000 followers into the Faith in 496 AD.
"Take notice that the Kingdom of France is predestined by God for the defense of the Roman Church which is the only true Church of Christ. This kingdom shall someday be great among the kingdoms of the earth, and shall embrace all the limits of the Roman Empire, and shall submit all other kingdoms to its own scepter."
[France has never held this much territory under its power. It has never embraced all the limits of the Roman Empire. If this prophecy is true, it is yet to come.]
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St Caesar of Arles, France (6th cent), Father of the Church, according to Jurgen's "Faith of the Early Fathers". Presided over the 2nd Council of Orange in 529 AD against Pelagianism.
"When the entire world, and in a special way France - especially the provinces of the north, the east, and above all that of Lorraine and Champagne - shall have been laid waste by the greatest miseries and trials, then the provinces shall be comforted by a prince who had been exiled in his youth, and who shall recover the crown of the lilies. This prince shall extend his dominion over the total universe.
At the same time, by the will of God, a most holy man shall receive the Papacy, who will be most perfect in every spiritual perfection. This Pope will have with him the great Monarch, the most virtuous man, who shall be an eminent leader of the holy line of French Kings. This great Monarch shall assist the Pope in the reformation of the whole earth. Many nations and their princes 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 repentence, penance and good works. There will be one common law, only one faith, one baptism, one religion.
All nations shall recognize the Holy See of Rome, and shall pay homage to the Pope. But after an extended period of time, fervor will cool, inquity will abound and moral corruption shall become worse than ever before, which shall bring upon mankind the last and worst persecution of anti-christ and the end of the world."
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St Epheaem (5th cent):
"Then the Lord from his glorious heaven shall set up His peace. And the kingdom of the Romans [Roman Empire] shall rise in place of this latter people, and establish its dominion upon the earth, even to its ends, and there shall be no one who will resist it.
After iniquity shall have multiplied, and all creatures have become defiled, then Divine Justice shall appear, and shall wholly destroy the people, and coming forth from perdition, the man of iniquity [anti-christ] shall be revealed upon the earth, the Seducer of men, and the distruber of the whole earth."
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St Catald(us) (7th cent):
"The Great King will wage war till he is 40 years of age. He will assemble great armies and hurl back the tyrants out of his empire."
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Rabanus Maurus (9th cent), the most thorough chronicler of both prophecy and Oral Tradition in Western Europe. He was abbot of the famous Benedictine Monastery in Fulda. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "His fame as a teacher spread all over Europe. He was the most learned man of his age. In scripture and patristic knowledge, he had no equal and was thoroughly conversant in canon law and liturgy."
"Our principle Doctors [teachers of the Faith] agree in telling us, that towards the end of time one of the descendents of the kings of France shall reign over all the Roman Empire; and that he shall be the greatest of the French Monarchs and the last of his race. After having governed well his kingdom, he shall go to Jerusalem and lay down his scepter and crown at Mt Olivet. This shall be the conclusion of the Roman and Christian Empire."
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St Anslem (11th cent), Doctor of the Church
"Certian Doctors [esteemed teachers of the Faith] truly say, that one of the kings of the Frankish Empire shall possess it in its entirety, which King shall live in the last time and shall be the greatest and last of kings. Who after he shall have happily governed his Kingdom, shall come to Jerusalem and lay down his scepter and crown on Mt Olivet. He shall be the last and consummate Emperor of the Roman and Christian Empire.
And immediately thereupon [after he lays down his scepter/crown], according to the sentence of Paul, they [esteemed teachers of the Faith] say antichrist will come."
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St Thomas a'Becket (12th cent)
"A knight shall come from the West. He shall capture Milan, Lombardy and the three Crowns [Italy]. He shall then sail to Cyprus and Famagoste and land at Jaffa [the oldest part of Tel Aviv, Israel], and reach Christ's grave, where he will fight. Wars and wonders shall befall until the people believe in Christ toward the end of the world."
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St Hildegard (12th cent)
...There are so many prophecies from St Hildegard that you can look them up yourself.
William D'Otrante (13th cent), an abbot of a monastery in Southern Italy
"The Great Monarch and the great pope will preceed anti-christ. The nations will be at war for 4 years and a great part of the world will be destroyed. The pope will go over the sea carrying the sign of Redemption on his forehead. The Great Monarch will come to restore peace and the Pope will share the victory. Peace will reign on earth."
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John of Vatiguerro (13th cent)
"Spoilation, pillaging and devastation of that most famous city which is the capital and mistress of France [Paris] will take place when the Church and the world are grievously troubled. The Pope will change his residence and the Church will not be defended for 25 months or more, because during all that time, there will be no Pope in Rome, no emperor and no ruler in France. But, after this, a young captive Prince shall recover the Crown of the Lilies and shall extend his dominion all over the world."
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St Vicent Ferrer (14th cent), known as the "Angel of Judgement" spoken of in the Apocalypse.
"Armies from the East, West and North will fight together in Italy and the Eagle [Great Monarch] shall capture the false king, and all things shall be made obedient unto him, and there shall be a new reformation in the world."
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Concerning the Fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the anti-christ...
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St Cyril of Jerusalem (4th cent): Speaking of the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the anti-christ
"Since the true Christ is to come a second time, the adversary makes use of the expectation of the simple, and especially of those of the circuмcision [the joos]; and he brings in a certain man who is a magician, and who is quite expert in sorceries and enchantments of beguiling craftiness. This one shall seize the power of the Roman Empire, and shall falsely style himself Christ. By the name of Christ he shall deceive the joos, who are expecting the Annointed and he shall seduce the gentiles by his magical illusions.
This aforementioned anti-christ is to come when the times of the Roman Empire have been fulfilled and the end of the world is drawing near. There shall rise up together ten kings of the Romans, reigning in different parts, perhaps, but all reigning at the same time. After these there shall be an eleventh, the anti-christ, who by the evil power of magic [false miracles] shall seize upon the Roman Power. Of the kings who reigned before him, 3 shall be humble and the remaining 7 he shall have as subjects under him [see book of Daniel]. He shall desplay against all men and especially against Christians, a spirit that is murderous and most cruel, merciless and wily. For three years and six months only shall he be the perpetrator of such things.
Now these things we teach not of our own ingenuity...that this kingdom is that of the Romans has been the tradition of the Church's interpreters..."
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St John Chrysostom (4th cent):
"In the same way as those kingdoms which existed before the Roman Empire were destroyed (the Babylonian by the Persian, the Persian by the Greek, the Greek by the Roman), so will the Roman Empire be destroyed by anti-christ. This will happen when the Roman Empire shall have been divided into 10 kingdoms [after the Holy Monarch dies]."
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St Jerome (4th cent)...in his commentary on the Book of Daniel:
"Therefore, let us state what all the Ecclesiastical writers [omnes scriptores ecclesiastici] have passed down [tradiderunt]: At the consummation of the world, when the Kingdom of the Romans has been destroyed, when ten kings shall have divided the territory of the Romans between themselves, an eleventh shall rise to a small kingdom, who when he shall have overcome three of the ten kings, i.e. the kingdom of the Egyptians, of the Africans and of the Ethiopians and consequently as we learn more manifestly - whom he shall have killed, the other seven kings shall submit their necks to the victor [the eleventh king].
Who is the eleventh king? St Jerome explains:
"Nor do we think him to be the Devil or a demon, as some others do, but one of mankind in whom satan shall dwell totally...his mouth uttering great boasts, for he is the man of sin, the son of perdition, such that he will seat himself in the Temple as if he were God. [Here Jerome is directly quoting from St Paul's description of the anti-christ in 2nd Thessalonians, 2:15]
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There are many, many, many more where this came from.
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