Signs of the Times  

      (con't) "....... First, several earthly scourges will come.  They are going to be dreadful, but they will be mitigated and shortened by the prayers and penances of many holy souls.  There will be great wars in wich millions of people will perish through IRON.  But after these earthly scourges will come the heavenly one, which will be directed solely against the impenitent.  This scourge will be far more frightful and terrible.  It will be mitigated by nothing, but it will take place and act in its full rigor."
                                                                 BL. ANNA MARIA TAIGI (d. 1837)


    "So long as public prayers will be made, nothing shall happen; but a time will come when public prayers shall cease.  People will say, 'Things will remain as they are.'  It is then that the great calamity shall occur.  This great calamity shall consist in:
1. a great flight;
2. great tribulations in many large cities of France;
3. a horrible massacre in the capital, namely, Paris.
   During the battle, people shall hear the noise of the cannon nine leagues distant.  Before the great combat the wicked shall be masters.  They will perpetrate all the evils in their power, but not as much as they desire, because they shall not have the time.  Good and faithful Catholics, less in number, shall be on the point of being annihilated, but a stroke from Heaven will save them."....
     ....O power of God! O power of God!  All the wicked shall perish, and also many good men.  O, how frightful shall these calamities be!  The churches shall be closed, but only for the space of 24 hours....At this time, such extraordinary events shall take place that the most incredulous will be forced to say, 'The finger of God is there!'
    O power of God!  There shall be a terrible night during which no one will be able to sleep.  These trials shall not last long because no person on earth could endure them.  When all shall appear lost; all will be saved..."
                                                                           SISTER MARIANNE (d. 1804)


     "All men shall rise one against the other, and they shall kill one another without pity.  During this sanguinary conflict, the avenging arm of God will strike the wicked and in His mighty power He will punish their pride and presumption.  God will employ the powers of Hell for the extermination of these impious and and heretical persons who desire to over throw the Church and destroy it to its very foundation.  These presumptuous men in their mad impiety believe that they can over throw God from His throne, but the Lord will despise these artifices, and through an effect of His Might Hand, He will punish these impious blasphemers by giving permission to the infernal spirits to come out from Hell.  Innumerable legions of demons shall overrun the earth and execute the orders of Divine Justice by causing terrible  calamities and disasters; they shall attack everything; they shall injure individual persons and entire families; they shall devastate property and alimentary productions, cities and villages.  Nothing on earth shall be spared.  God will allow the demons to strike with death those impious men because they gave themselves up to the infernal powers AND HAD FORMED WITH THEM A COMPACT AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

   ......Being desirous of more fully penetrating my spirit with a deeper sentiment of His Divine Justice, God showed to me the awful abyss.  I saw in the bowels of the earth a dark and frightening cavern, whence an infinite number of demons were issuing forth, who under the form of men and beast came to ravage the earth, leaving everywhere in ruins and blood.  Happy will be all true and good Catholics!  They shall experience the powerful protection of the holy apostles, Sts. Peter and Paul, who will watch over them lest they may be injured either in their persons or their property.  Those evil spirits shall plunder every place where God has been outrages, fespised, and blasphemed; the edifices they profaned will be pulled down and destroyed, and nothing but ruins shall remain of them.

   After this frightful punishment, I saw the Heavens opening and St. Peter coming down again uon earth.  He was vested in his pontifical robes and surrounded by a great number of angels who were chanting hymns in his honor, and they proclaimed him as sovereign of the earth.  I saw also St. Paul descending upon the earth.  By God's command, he traversed the earth and chained the demons whom he brought before st. Peter, who commanded them to return into Hell whence they had come.  Then a great light appeared upon the earth which was the sign of the reconciliation of God with man.  The angels conducted before the throne of the prince of the Apostles, the small flock that had remained faithful to Jesus Christ....."
                                                                    ELIZABETH CANORI-MORA (d. 1825)


     "There will be a great slaughtering whereby the wicked will try to eradicate the religion of Jesus Christ.  After they have killed a great number they will raise a cry of victory, but suddenly the good will receive help from above.  This great crisis, in which the good will evenutally triumph, will be of short duration...the majority of the wicked will perish and the lving will be very much afraid over the chastisement of the others.  They cannot but recognize the finger of God and adore His omnipotence.  Many will then be converted and justice restored."
                                                                     NURSING NUN OF BELEZ (d. 1830)


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