Destiny Goes to War 
T H E N E W E U R O P E A N CONFLICT 

AND ITS AMAZING ENDING 

by Carl Adler 





D e s t i n y G o e s t o W a r 

T H E N E W E U R O P E A N CONFLICT 
AND ITS AMAZING ENDING 

European predictions 
arranged by 
CARL ADLER 

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I N T R O D U C T I O N 
Prophecies of all kinds have become a popular topic since the 

outbreak of the new European hostilities. The vast majority of 
them originates with the Holy Scriptures and especially with the 
Apocalypse of St. John, the Evangelist. Constantly repeated 
during the World War, they have made the gruesome theme of 
the Four Horsemen and their devastating march of horror com-
mon knowledge. 

But there exists a series of more recent and f a r more 
distinct prophecies which have never been published in America 
—at least not in a coherent manner. They come from Europe, 
where they are better known. As they are now disclosing the 
presumable happenings of the next ten years, it might be both 
interesting and advisable to learn what they have to tell us. 

These predictions are of a religious nature, and odd as they 
are and incredible as they seem, it must be conceded that they 
have established their veracity in a most astounding manner. 
Beginning in the year 385 after Christ and having increased in 
numbers and unanimity throughout the ensuing centuries, we 
are amazed to note that they have foretold us clearly such 
historic events as the birth and rise of Islam, the calamities 
of the 30 years' hostilities, the coming of Luther's Reformation, 
the outbreak and the f u r y of the French Revolution, the ex-
plosion of our World War, our American participation in it, the 
subsequent defeat of Germany, the banishment of the German 
Kaiser, the assassination of the Russian Tsar and his family, 
the signing of "an u n j u s t peace treaty," the establishment of 
European Republics everywhere and the aftermath of armed 
conflict: the world-wide depression. 

In order to understand religious prophecies—accepting 
them or not—we must honestly remember that they have nothing 
in common with crystal-gazing, occultism, spiritualism and the 
like, because they are not concerned with satisfying wordly 
curiosity or the making of money. They are proven to be of 
an unselfish, supernatural order, emanating mysteriously from 
that mysterious sixth dimension of which we still know so 
little. They are so-called Second Sights or, as the Christian 
believes, direct godly inspirations, given to and transmitted by 
pious persons for the exclusive purpose to warn mankind of 
impending dangers so that they can be averted in time by 
reflection and reformation. 

What ought to interest us most is the fact that almost all 
the European prophesies since 385 seem to concentrate with 



special force on our present decade. Alarmed, they admonish us 
to be prepared for a period of the most frightful catastrophes 
which the world had ever witnessed. They predict us a second 
deluge, a titanic purge, consisting of several most bloody wars, 
of cruel revolutions, of a pitiless Catholic persecution and of 
raving upheavals of Nature. They explain that after the dis-
mal failure of the World War only a still greater affliction, 
an unheard-of scourge of u t t e r destruction and despair would 
be able to reform the distorted minds of mankind and to bring 
Europe to h e r knees and senses, so that, at last, a genuine under-
standing among nations and a permanent peace could be 
established. 

I am not responsible for these often terrifying predictions 
and their quaint religious language — I have recorded them 
only. B u t I have selected them very carefully and have at-
tempted to arrange them chronologically for the sake of better 
understanding. They may not come t r u e in my order of class-
ification, they may not be fulfilled in our time, and they may not 
materialize at all—and yet: all signs on the wall seem to say 
that they again know what they are talking about. 

Diving and finding no pearls in the sea; 
Blame not the ocean; the fault is in Thee. 



P R O L O G U E 
Providence Takes a Hand 

"The world has grown hostile to faith in our times. On t h e 
whole line the impudent word is flung in the face of God: Go 
away from us! Leave us! We want to do everything without 
You and against Y o u ! 

"And God accepts the word of the nations for it and 
abandons them to their obstinacy and stubborness until they 
in their warring madness tear another asunder and cover 
Europe with blood and ruins. 

"And when battles have been fought in vain, then God will 
come again—but fully armed. And He will subject this ter-
restrial globe to His avenging wrath. 

"Et scietis, quia Ego sum Dominus. And ye shall know 
that I am the Lord!" 

Bishop M. Pie 
Poitiers, France 
In the-year 1880 



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C O N T E N T S 
PAGE 

T H E ERA OF TRIBULATIONS 9 
EUROPE I N UPROAR 1 1 
" I SEE N E W MARTYRS" 1 3 
RELIGIOUS BATTLE ON THE R H I N E 1 6 
I T A L Y — A PLAY-BALL OP WAR 1 9 
BLOOD PURGE I N FRANCE . 2 3 
ENGLAND'S HOUR OF DESTINY 2 5 
A MYSTERIOUS LEADER ! 2 7 
T H E ELEMENTS STRIKE 2 9 
T H E TIDE TURNS 3 3 
A TITANIC STRUGGLE 3 8 
T H E BATTLE AT THE BIRCH-TREE. 4 0 
PEACE MAKER AND RE-ORGANIZER 4 3 
A SAINTLY COMRADE 4 6 
T H E GOLDEN AGE 5 0 
T H E N E W ORDER OF THINGS 5 2 
I S DESTINY READY TO STRIKE? 5 6 
CLOSING REMARKS 6 2 

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EPILOGUE—THE LAST JUDGMENT 6 5 





THE ERA OF TRIBULATIONS 
(General Outlook) 

One of the best known German seers is Dr. Bartholomeus 
Holzhauser. He was born 1613, at Lugna, in Bavaria, and died 
1658 as pastor at Bingen on the Rhine. His greatest work was 
his explanation of the Revelations of St. John, a momentous 
book, written in Latin, in which he divided the history of the 
world into seven periods. 

The fifth epoch evidently applies to our time. He denoted 
it as the period of affliction (status afflictivus) and predicts great 
confusion of all sorts: 

"The Lord will unleash his preconceived anger because of 
the frightful godlessness. Kingdoms will fall into chaos. 
Principalities will be overthrown. Dominions will be reduced 
to naught. States will fall and poverty will be the lot of all-
Multitudes of people will perish . . ." 

The same seer saw at the same time terrible battles that 
were fought everywhere, a German invasion into France, revo-
lutions in many European countries and a bitter religious strife 
—predictions which will be analyzed in following chapters. It 
was this Holzhauser, by the way, who foresaw the outbreak of 
the new European wars for the time around 1940. 

Another person of highly visionary powers — St. Hildegard 
—divided the history of mankind into specific periods and 
designates the one in which we live as the age of despair. St. 
Hildegard is one of the very few Catholic prophets whose visions 
have received the approbation of the Church. One of the great-
est saints of the Middle Ages and one of the most brilliant 
scientific lights of her time, she was born to parents of noble 
ancestry in 1098 at Boeckelheim, Germany, and passed away 
in the year 1179. 

Why the age of despair? Because, as she explains, of the 
decadence of justice, order, and law, of the fall and disappear-
ance of the Kaiser and the impossibility to re-establish the 
sovereign dignity of his office, of the inordinate lust for power 
and the greediness of the new leaders in that they have no 
desire to act in accordance with the principles of t r u t h which 
they claim for themselves, of the general religious unbelief and 
infidelity among men in the highest as well as the lowest walks of 
life, of the weakening power and waning influence of the Pope 
in a very embarrassing environment and because of the outbreak 
of wars which will ensue during this time and which will be 
fought voluntarily and as a matter of expediency. 



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CRUEL LEADERS 
The sainted prophetess literally avows: 
"When t h e fear of God has been disregarded everywhere 

(see later. The Author) violent and furious wars will take 
place. A multitude of people will be slaughtered and many cities 
will be transformed into heaps of rubbish. A few uncommonly 
cruel people will play their game at the expense of the peace a~id 
tranquility of the others. As it h a s been f r o m the beginning of 
the world, God will deliver the rod of correction to his enemies 
for the extirpation of evil . . . " 

The strange "Secret of Melanie" follows to a great extent 
the same line of thought. Melanie Matthieu, a girl of 15 years, 
and Maximin Sivaud, a boy of 11, were tending cattle of peasants 
on the slope of Mount La Salette (hamlet in the French diocese 
of Grenoble) on September 19, 1846, when they were visited, 
according to Catholic documents, by Mary, t h e mother of God. 
Each child was entrusted with a separate message to the world, 
to be kept secret for 35 years. That of Melanie was made public 
1881 by Pope Leo XIII, while t h e secret of Maximin still re-
mains hidden "on account of its dreadful contents." Melanie 
had to flee to England to escape the ire of Napoleon III, against 
whom she had warned Pius IX, and she died 1904, at Altamura 
in Italy. Maximin's span of life came to an end in 1875. 

Let me quote first—at this introductory point of our dis-
cussion—the more general contents of Melanie's message, while 
I promise to be more specific as we move along. 

"God has then arrived at the point w h e r e he will mete 
out unparalleled punishments. Woe to the inhabitants of the 
earth! God will give f r e e reign to his anger, and no one will be 
able to escape the multiplicity of evils that will come to pass. 
Those in high places, the leaders of the people, . . . have become 
erring stars, to be swept away so t h a t they become extinct . . . 
Man will be subjected to t h e sufferings of physical as well as 
moral evils. God will abandon mankind to its own devices and 
will send tribulations that will endure and continue to pursue it 
for a period of more than 35 years . . . " 

And anew: "Society will find itself on the eve of the most 
horrible scourging and the greatest events. Man must prepare 
himself to be governed by the rod of iron and to drink the 
chalice of God's revenge . . . " 

It has been assumed by many interpreters that these pre-
dicted tribulations began with the World-War and that they will 
continue until 1950 or there abouts. 



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EUROPE IN UPROAR 
The era of sufferings and despair, supposedly to confront 

our unlucky generation, will set all Europe aflame and will not 
restrict itself to the opening war which we are witnessing now. 

A very noted French seeress is the saintly n u n Sister 
Nativitas of the Convent of the Urbanities in Fougere. Born 
in Beaulot in the year 1731 as Johanna Royer, the daughter of 
poor peasant parents, she became later on famous for her 
holy life and the extraordiness of her many visions. Death 
reached her in 1798. In reviewing her prophecies she herself 
calculated that they would begin to materialize in "the century 
that starts with the year 1900." 

While Sister Nativitas' predictions are mainly concerned 
with the horrors of the Christian persecution to come, of which 
we will hear more later, her attention is also aroused by the 
general European uproar, connected therewith. Out of her 
numerous warnings we select one which tends to sustain the 
assumption that the present European war is not the decisive 
one but merely the opening and fore-runner to additional and 
still fiercer hostilities and it is very significant to note that she 
calls one of the following combats the "red conflagration." 

"I see in God," the sister exclaims," that the world will then 
be afflicted with bloody wars. Nation will arise against nation, 
country against country. Now they will unite and then again 
will war against each other. They will band themselves to-
gether, some for and some against the same party. In frightful 
fashion armies will attack each other and on all sides and every-
where the earth will witness murder and carnage . . . Atrocious 
sacrileges, desecrations, abomination, and untold sufferings will 
be the result of these external and internal wars . . . " 

Internal wars are revolutions. Sister Rosa-Colomba Asdente, 
an outstanding Italian prophetess (born 1781 in Piedmont, buried 
1847 in Taggia) foresaw these uprisings, too: 

"Great revolutions will break out and the world will see 
nations warring against nations amid the sound of predatory 
weapons. The revolution will spread over all Europe, causing 
utter destruction and despair . . . " 

How these revolutions will presumedly affect the various 
European countries, shall be soon illustrated in detail. A sug-
gestive remark of Melanies secret, referring to four nations, 
might be used in advance: 

"France, Italy, Spain and England will be at war. Blood 
will flow in the streets. The Frenchman will be in arms against 



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Frenchmen. Italian against Italian. There will be a general 
war of most frightful nature. For a time, God will forget both 
France and Italy because t h e gospel of Christ is not known any 
more. The wicked ones will unfold all their wickedness. Men 
will kill themselves and one another. They will carry m u r d e r 
and death even into the homes." 

Additional prophecies, to be employed at the proper time, 
shall explain why Germany was not mentioned in the above 
prediction. That was probably due to the fact that Germany at 
this progressed state of developments had already passed through 
a paralyzing revolt of her own. 

A less known but equally enlightened seer is the so-called 
Franciscan Brother of Mt. Sinai, Palestine. He died in the 
monastery of the "Holy Mountain" in t h e year 1806 at the age 
of 92. This prophet predicted in earlier visions t h e assassination 
of the Tsar and his family and the abdication of the "kings and 
princes of Germany," adding: "Much more grief and sorrow, 
however, is reserved for the king of Prussia." (Ex-emperor 
William). A few hours before his death, the pious F r i a r cried 
out: 

"Trying times will come thereafter. In all of Europe a 
frightful civil war will break out. One will tear the other to 
pieces and the blood will flow in streams . . . " 

And a little later: 
"Italy, Italy, thou lovely land, over thee I weep. A number 

of thy blossoming cities will be ravaged. Here many Ger-
mans (!) will find their graves . . . " 

Germans, fighting for or against the Italians? That, too, 
we shall discover very shorty. Monarchical uprisings in Austria 
were felt also by the Friar (as well as by Holzhauser): 

"Austria seemed to have gone under b u t free-minded n a t u r e 
will again rebel . . . After numerous struggles and gory, she will 
fall into ruins, yet t h e genius of the old reigning house (Habs-
burger? The Author) will protect t h e dynasty. Vienna will 
be besieged twice and after it finally has drawn upon itself the 
hatred of all other nations, will be severely punished. (See 
later. The Author). Vienna will become desolate and t h e great 
palaces will stand empty. Grass will grow at the Cathedral of 
St. Stephan's and all nobility will cease to exist . . . " 

The dying Brother conceived finally the f u r t h e r destinies of 
Hungary, the Balkans, Poland, Belgium, Holland and Scandina-
via, but these visions must also await their logical setting. 



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"I SEE NEW MARTYRS" 
One of the most shocking happenings in the European 

tragedy of the f u t u r e is—in the light of our prophecies—the 
allegedly impending persecution of the Christian and especially 
the Catholic faith. So numerous a r e the visionary allusions to 
this theme that we have to restrict ourselves to summarizing 
excerpts. 

Anna Katherina Emmerich (1774-1824, Blessed Virgin, 
stigmatized, one of the greatest seeresses of all times), lamented: 

"I see new martyrs, not of the present time, but in the next 
century. I see them pursued. I see how here and there good 
pious people and especially the religious orders, are tortured, 
imprisoned and murdered . . . " 

Holzhauser: 
"And while I trembled exceedingly and was amazed, I 

saw how everything turned against God . . . And I saw men and 
beasts being killed everywhere. A great wound was on the 
earth and it was overflown with blood. The bloodhound will 
harass the Church, and the greatest distress and chaos will 
reign . . . " 

Abbot Werdin (1220-1298): 
"Four years will the nations wage war against one another 

and a large part of the world will be destroyed. The head of 
the world (Pope) will fall . . . ' " 

Franciscan F a t h e r Lavinsky (died in Mikahera, Transyl-
vania, 1708): 

"In those days of Germany's sudden rise and fall the whole 
world will be chastized by external and internal wars and will 
be compelled to suffer greater devastations than ever before. 
Religion for the greater part will be suppressed and the monks 
will be banished . . . " 

Johannes von Lilienthal (Augustinian Prior in Utrecht, 
Holland, about 1350): 

"At that time, the church will suffer severe pressure, will 
practically lose all its wealth and will be severely oppressed by 
internal and external enemies . . . " 

F a t h e r Hieronymus Botin (Benedictine of St. Germain-des-
Pres, Paris, died 1420): 

"And after the end of five centuries the servants of the 
altar will weep and suffer persecutions for the sake of justice. 
The shepherd (Pope) will be smitten and the fold scattered . . . " 



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Elizabeth Eppinger (born 1814 in Alsace, founder of t h e 
Order of the "Daughters of the Divine Redeemer," died 1862): 

"In the impending revolutionary chaos eminent religious will 
be assassinated by dignitaries. Rome will see the blood of 
priests flowing. Convents will be sacked. Churches laid waste. 
Laws will be enacted against religion and the worship of God. 
Through the stroke of the scourge t h e Lord wishes to re-awaken 
the right spirit among those in holy and sacred positions. 
Secretly conducted agitations, revolts, insurrections, slaughter 
and the creation of a state of alarm and anxiety within the 
r a n k s of general society will be characteristic signs of the times 
when the evil ones shall have established themselves in power. 
God wishes to administer punishment for allowing faith to wane 
and for the sins t h a t engulf the world, and therefore permits 
the raging passions of man to have f r e e reign until they reach 
a point where they will subside of themselves . . . " 

And again, another vision: 
"A great persecution of priests will break out, but it will 

not be so severe in Alsace and, therefore, many foreign priests 
will fly thither . . . For many clergymen are no longer zealous 
for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Their hearts are 
set on the spacious goods of this life. Through chastisement 
they must be torn away from these things in order to bring about 
a change in their point of view , . . " 

Sister Rosa-Colomba Asdente: 
A f t e r the rise of a "childish regiment in Italy"—"a great 

persecution of the Church will break out, which will be the work 
of her own children. (Catholics?) One of these great enemies 
of the Church will assume the name of "Redeemer" and will 
be a predecessor of the Anti-Christ . . . " 

Other seers describe this coming leader of the fight against 
the Church as a small, worldly, h a r d looking up-start, a born but 
tepid Catholic. Sister Colomba continues: 

"Many sects will unite with this m a n and will demand con-
formance to their principles against the Church at the point 
of the dagger. Their cunning will be so great t h a t they will even 
win over righteous men to their cause. Withal the Episcopate 
will stand firm, and only a very few will waver in faith, b u t all 
will be called upon to bear great h a r m because of their courage 
and loyalty towards the Church . . . " 

"A wild demagogy will have the upper hand for a time. It 
will rob t h e religious orders and t h e estates and properties of 
good Catholics. This furious storm against the Church will 
leave, besides the Hospitalers, only two other religious orders in 



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function: the Dominicans and the Capuchins. The Hospitalers 
will attend the pilgrims who will journey to Italy (see later. 
The Author) to visit the martyrs who during the course of this 
persecution of the faithful have been murdered. And during 
the course of this persecution priests and monks will be cut into 
pieces like slaughtered cattle . . . " 

Sister Nativitas: 
"In the wave of the internal and external wars the Church 

will be pounced upon and she will be robbed of her legitimate 
rights, bringing her great suffering . . . " 

"Thereupon I saw a great power arising against the Church. 
It despoiled, plundered and laid waste to the vineyard of the 
Lord, made of it a foot-path for those passing over it, and derided 
it before the nations as an object of scorn and mockery. A f t e r 
desecrating the celibate and suppressing monasticism, this power 
boldly confiscated the properties of the Church and at the same 
time usurped the powers of the pope, whose person and laws they 
condemned . . . " 

We leave it to our readers to guess who this "redeemer" 
and which this Church-storming power may be, and proceed 
with additional predictions which might throw more light on 
both questions as well as on the nefarious n a t u r e of the alleged 
persecution. 



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RELIGIOUS BATTLE ON THE RHINE 
Staring at the thunder and lightning that is now engulfing 

Europe, the supermost question arises: What is going to happen 
to Germany? Well, according to our prophecies, if interpreted 
correctly, the Third Reich is to experience a revolution, a re-
ligious war and a French invasion. Let us begin with the two 
first mentioned predictions. 

The so-called Goerres Prophecy, a strictly German legend, 
which also is supposed to have originated with Holzhauser, states 
after a definite description of the French revolutions and the 
recent World War: 

"In the second period (ending the World War. The Author) 
peace will come b u t it will be a peace in name only. Because 
in fact there is no peace, as under it the afflictions will be even as 
great as they were during the war." 

The peace treaty of Versailles? And then "after a betrayal 
of the Kaiser," there will reign a new government in Germany, 
which will oppose the Church and will lead the land into great 
distress: 

"Those at the helm of the German government, already 
fallen away from the old loyalty, will abandon the leader, and 
through an unrighteous peace-pact (to follow the present war? 
The Author) will unite against the Catholics. Like wolves they 
will destroy all the archbishoprics, dioceses, monasteries and 
corporations that for the most part were founded on the pious 
incentives of the good fathers of the Church. Because Germany 
will then be a nation divided against itself (civil war. The 
Author) and because its governing officials (!) have become 
associates and companions of rage and fury, deluged with the 
spirit of giddiness . . . And this spirit of giddiness will have such 
effect that the leaders will grope about in midday as if they were 
in the blackest darkness, because their powers of perception are 
so out of place that they are virtually blinded. But that will be 
what they had prepared for themselves . . . " 

The Rumanian Franciscan Father Lavinsky whom we have 
cited before, also declares that Germany after great victories 
will be a disunited nation and remarkable, too, is the fact that 
the Sister Rosa-Colomba speaks at this date of her predictions 
only of a united "Russia, Austria and Prussia," (!) never men-
tioning Germany again. 

One of the most widfely circulated German Folk-Sagas is the 
legend of the battle at the birch-tree. We have to employ it 



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later in full, b u t will use the first paragraph as relevant to our 
theme: 

"There will come a time when the world is averse to God. 
Loyalty and faith rule no more . . . Then there will arise a 
general insurrection, so that the father will fight against the s o » 
and t h e son against the father. (Again: the civil war. T h e 
A u t h o r ) . At this time attempts will be made to distort the 
dogmas of faith in Church and school. New books will be 
introduced. The Catholic Church will then be greatly oppressed 
and h e r enemies will cunningly strive to annihilate h e r alto-
gether. B u t then it will not be long before a change takes place. 
A frightful w a r breaks out . . . " 

That would b e the last and decisive war, on which we re-
ceive detailed information in succeeding chapters. As the above 
6aga concerns itself with Germany only, its contents must be 
logically applied to Germany. 

Bernard Remscheidt or "Spielbaehn" as he was called be-
cause of his great love for his violin, who was born 1699 a t 
Eschmar on t h e river Sieg and was buried 1783 in Cologne, stands 
with Holzhauser in the first r a n k of German seers. A humble 
messenger-servant between t h e cloisters of Heisterbach and 
Oberpleis, this very pious man prophesied in his time—over 
200 years ago—such f u t u r e events as t h e guillotining of the 
French king Louis XV, the appearance and banishment of 
Napoleon I, the imprisonment of Pius VIII, t h e invention of tele-
graphy, steamships, automobiles, railroads, flying machines etc., 
the outbreak and results of our World War and t h e dethrone-
ment of t h e Kaiser. 

A f t e r the World War, people would become godless in 
Germany, especially in the reigning ranks, and they would 
endeavor to establish a new German religion. The National 
Church of which w e hear so much about lately? Anyhow, i t 
will be a strange religion, according to "Spielbaehn:" 

"They want to found a new kingdom of Christ, and all f a i t h 
is to be banned and people do not care a n y more whether to go to-
church or not. 

"They call themselves servants of God, but they a r e s e r -
vants of t h e flesh. 

"They take unto themselves one woman, t h e n two, t h e n 
three, and m a k e a religion out of their sinfulness." 

"For their belly is their God and the destruction of Christ 
their goal." 

As a result, violent Christian persecutions would arise, to 
be followed by a civil and religious war, causing t h e collapse o£ 



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a great nation. (Germany or Italy? See later). The religious 
strife in Germany, assisted by strangers, would culminate in a 
bloody battle at Cologne on the Rhine. 

"With it (the great nation. The Author) the false prophets 
will fall. As such many will b u r n themselves with their wives 
and children. And four hundred of them will be strangled with 
intestines. And those that are left will be cast from a rock on 
the Rhine. That is the beginning of the blood-era. The Holy 
City of Cologne will then witness a frightful battle. Many 
strange people will be murdered here, and men and women will 
be fighting for their faith. And it will not be possible to avoid 
a horrible devastation of Cologne. And there one will wade in 
blood u p to the ankle . . . " 



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ITALY — A PLAY-BALL OF WAR 
"Spielbaehn" remarks at another point of his eerie visions 

that a religious persecution would rage at the same time in 
another great European country. Most exegetes apply this 
assertion to Italy, and there are certainly enough direct pro-
phecies to share such a belief. 

We recall the references to internal Italian strifes, made by 
the Franciscan Friar of Mt. Sinai, by Melanie, St. Hildegard, 
Abbot Werdin, F a t h e r Botin, Elizabeth Eppinger, and Sister 
Rosa-Colomba, and now a few more. 

J u s t about 100 years ago, there ruled in Rome the saintly 
invalid-pope Pius IX, who was strongly gifted with the so-called 
second sight. During the course of a conference with the 
superiors of the Order of St. Francis he became exhausted and 
fell asleep, b u t suddenly awoke affrighted. In a disturbed voice 
he said: 

"I saw one of my successors fleeing over the corpses of my 
brothers. (Cardinals. The Author). Do not tell this to anyone 
as long as I am alive." 

The same pontiff lamented on a later occasion: 
"The revolution will come to triumph and our Church will 

again be subjected to extraordinary sufferings. Her servants 
and her pontiff will be outraged, persecuted and martyred." 

The Secret of Melanie resumes h e r corresponding revela-
tions: 

"Italy will be severely punished for her efforts to shake off 
the yoke of t h e Most High Lord. She will become the play-ball 
of war. On every side blood will flow. The temples will either 
be closed or desecrated. Priests and members of religious orders 
will be p u t to flight. They will be beaten to death and other-
wise die cruel deaths. 

"The Vicar of My Son (Pope. The Author) will be com-
pelled to suffer much because for a time the Church will be 
delivered to great persecutions. That will be the hour of d a r k -
ness, and the Church will experience a frightful crisis. T h e 
powerful officials of the State and the Church will be suppressed 
and done away with, and all law and order as well as justice 
which exist then, will be murder, hate, envy and deceit, with n o 
love or regard for one's country or family . . . " 

Attempts will be made to assassinate the Pope: 
"The Holy Father will suffer exceedingly. I will be with him 



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until to the end to accept his life as a pleasing sacrifice. The 
wicked ones will make many attacks against his life, but neither 
be nor his successor, who will reign only for a short time, will 
witness the final triumph of the Church. (See later. The 
A u t h o r ) . The worldly governments will all have but one aim, 
namely to annihilate, discourage, and remove all religious prin-
ciples in order to make room for materialism, atheism, spiritism 
and all manner of blasphemy . . . " 

That the pope will be murdered, is asserted by Don Bosko, 
famous educator and founder of the Salesians, who died in Turin, 
1888: 

Much blood will flow in Italy and the pope will be assassin-
ated . . . " 

Something similar is indicated b y Sister Maria Steiner 
(born in Tyrol, passing away 1862 as t h e principal of the St. 
Clarissa Convent in Nocera, Italy): 

"The friars will be compelled to leave their monasteries and 
the nuns will be driven out of their convents, especially in Italy. 
The Church will be persecuted and Rome will be b e r e f t of the 
pope. If forbearance is not implored through prayer, the time 
will come when one will be able to see the sword and death, and 
Rome will be without shepherds . . . " 

Brother Johannes of the Clover Rocks, a hermit who lived 
around 1330, assures us, however, that the pontiff will merely 
be driven from Rome: 

"The tyrants and the hostile people will suddenly fall upon 
t h e prelates of the Church and the religious orders to rob them 
of their earthly possessions. They will be despised and be made 
the victims of all manner of deception and f r a u d . During the 
time of this terrible oppression the pope, together with his car-
dinals, will flee from his See and live in sorrow and distress. They 
will be able to find but a little peace and calm in a small locality 
where they are not known. These sufferings will f a r surpass 
any that the Church was called upon to endure during earlier 
times . . . " 

There will be many apostates, too, among priests and higher 
Catholic dignitaries and even a schism will hold sway for a 
while as numerous prophecies bitterly decry. 

F I N A L TRIUMPH 
While all interpreters concur in the opinion that the new 

persecution of the Christians, whenever it shall come, will be 
even more ferocious than Nero's bloody assault on the Church, 
they are at variance with one another concerning the period of its 



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duration. And scy it seems, are as a matter of fact the prophets 
themselves. 

So prophesies, by way of example, Sister Marianne (pious 
portress of the Ursuline Convent in Blois, France, where she 
died, 1804): 

"When the great w a r has been fought, there one will have 
to pray very fervently because the evil ones will want to destroy 
everything. Before the great final struggle, they will be t h e 
masters. They will bring about as much wickedness as they 
possibly can, however, not as much as they would like to, because 
they will not have sufficient time. The less numerous good 
people will come very close to annihilation . . . " 

Almost literally does this prediction coincide with observa-
tions by t h e Belgian Jesuit Rector Nectou, who died at Bordeaux, 
France, 1172: 

"When these f u t u r e days of horrors dawn, there will reign 
much disorder and such confusion on earth that one will not be 
prone to believe that God still concerns himself with the world. 
The intentions of the wicked ones will be to completely destroy 
the Church. The time in which to accomplish this end will, 
however, not be of sufficient duration, as this dreadful period 
will last b u t a short time. At the moment when it is supposed 
that everything is lost, everything will be saved . . . " 

We will soon learn how this sudden rescue is to happen. 
The Blessed Hospital Sister of Belley (who died 1830, in France) 
announced in a related vein: 

"I saw a great struggle, more furious than ever was seen 
in the past. The enemies of God sought to exterminate all the 
servants of the religion of Jesus Christ and all his adherents. 
They extirpated a great number and already raised the cry of 
victory. The time of all this overthrow will, however, not 
exceed a period of more than three months, and the great crisis 
in which the good ones will finally triumph, will only last a 
short time . . . " 

With these "three months" and this "short time" these three 
seers have possibly meant the actual persecution or its zenith, 
while other prophets, who speak of a longer period, might 
have had the entire catastrophical era in mind. For instance, 
Sister Maria Lataste, one of the most gifted French seeresses 
(born 1822 in Mimbaste, to die 1847 as a member of the Congre-
gation of the Divine Heart of Jesus) noted: 

"When the new afflictions fall upon the earth, Rome also 
will encounter oppression in sorrow and desertion. During the 
course of three years and more (!), it will seem that this city 



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h a s succumbed to defeat. Then the Blessed Virgin (St. Mary. 
The Author) will descend into the city, grasp the hand of t h e 
aged m a p occupying the throne and speak to him: Now t h e 
h o u r has come! Arise against thy enemies . . . " 

"However, before all this comes to pass" (the rescue of 
the Church. The A u t h o r ) , "evil will have made such progress," 
so predicts Father Bernard Maria Clausi of the Order of the 
Lesser Brothers, who died 1849 at Paolo, Italy, "that it will seem 
as though all the devils in hell have been unleashed. So great 
will be the persecution of the evil ones against the just, that 
the latter will be suffering veritable martyrdom . . . " 

So much about the new religious strife which is predicted 
with such impressing unanimity. As it has not as yet made its 
appearance, it may well be that the f u t u r e will bring it on, and it 
might come soon, when we consider t h e happenings in Russia 
and Spain and the present European developments. The end 
and the results of the foretold persecution will be the object 
of following disclosures. 



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BLOOD-PURGE IN FRANCE 
The sensational collapse of France is a matter of history. The 

prophecies which foresaw such a sudden disaster have, there-
fore, become obsolete. But there remain those parts that have 
not been fulfilled as yet. They attempt to tell us what is going 
to happen next in this unfortunate country, and they seem pos-
itive that France will experience a brilliant come-back, but only 
after a furious civil war. 

It was the Sunday preceding All Saints Day in the year 
1816 when the Sister of Belley, already known to us, was deeply 
absorbed in a religious meditation: 

"Suddenly there appeared before me horrible things. I saw 
persons in all walks of life who had surrendered themselves 
again to the most horrible evils. I was told: Thou seest the 
crimes that man commits, and who withholds my avenging arm? 
I therefore wish to strike France again for the weal of one and 
the woe of the other. 

"At t h a t instant I saw a heavy cloud, which was so very 
black that it frightened me. It covered the whole of France. 
Out of the depths of this cloud I heard confused voices that cried: 
Long live the Republic! Long live Napoleon! Long live religion! 
Long live the great monarch whom God has prepared for us! . . 

Here we see vividly a French civil war in which the Repub-
licans, the Bonapartists and the friends and foes of the faith take 
up weapons against each other. The above mentioned "great 
monarch" will be fully described a little later. The next obser-
vation of the Sister reveals the bloody nature of the revolution: 

" A great battle took place, more terrible than anyone has 
ever witnessed before. Blood ran, as though it were raining 
heavily, especially from the South towards the North. The West 
seemed to be calmer. In this struggle the majority of the evil 
ones will perish . . . " 

When will this revolt from the South (unoccupied France. 
The Author) eventually begin? The Franciscan Friar of Mt. 
Sinai exclaimed shortly before his death: 

"France will be involved in a foreign war. Soon after this 
war, the citizens will rise and assassinate the president which 
will start a dreadful blood purge. More than half of the City of 
Paris will be transformed into ashes . . . Then the African pos-
sessions of France will tear themselves away from the mother 
country . . . " 



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" A t this time (civil and religious wars in Germany. The Au-
thor) France will be divided unto herself," the pious "Spiel-
baehn" asserts. 

This new French uprising, evidently a result of the defeat 
on the battlefields, was already foreseen in t h e year 1756 by the 
previously mentioned Jesuit, Rector Nectou: 

"Two parties will begin to form in F r a n c e and they will fight 
each other to death. The one will be f a r stronger t h a n the other 
in numbers but the weaker party will be victorious. So terrible 
an epoch will then begin that people will believe that the end of 
t h e world is at hand. Blood will flow in many of the great cities 
and there will be disturbances of the elements. (See later. The 
Author.) It will be like the Last Judgment in miniature. I n the 
catastrophe a great multitude of people will die . . . And during 
this dreadful upheaval which, as it seems, will be general and 
not confined to France alone, Paris will be destroyed." 

Elizabeth Eppinger, too, envisaged Paris in flames, insur-
rection and chaos, Anna Katharina Emmerich beheld the entire 
city disappearing during a frightful struggle and Melanie's Secret 
discloses: 

"Paris will be burned and Marseilles will be swallowed up 
by the sea. Numerous great cities will be shaken, convulsed and 
destroyed. The populace will believe that everything is lost, will 
see nothing but murder, and will hear only the clang of arms and 
sacrilegious blasphemies . . . " 

Another French seer, the Blessed J . M. Vianney, better 
known as the Vicar of Ars (born 1786, died 1859) warned: 

"A time will come when people will believe that the end is 
near. It will be a sign of the last Judgment. Paris and two or 
three other cities will experience a transformation. Paris will 
be demolished but not altogether. However, one will behold still 
more frightful things to come. There is, nevertheless, a limit 
beyond which the demolition will not progress . . . " 

The Vicar saw "those still more frightful things to come," 
but the French government confiscated this part of his prophecies 
and they were hidden as well as the Secret of Maximin, from 
which one may draw his own conclusions. B u t we have other 
prophecies to this point, which will be divulged in one of the 
n e x t chapters. 



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ENGLAND'S HOUR OF DESTINY 
Since a number of months England is engaged in a life-and-

death struggle with h e r German foe. How will t h e desperate fight 
end? I n the light of the few prophecies which touch this ques-
tion, with England's dissolution as a world power, and with a 
raving revolt on the British Isles in the wave of the French rev-
olution. It may be appropriate, however, to call attention to the 
fact that these prophecies are evidently anti-British inclined. 

Let u s cite first a prophecy of the 14th century, known as 
the Regensburger Vision, which expresses itself generally along 
this line: 

"In England the struggle between the Democrats and the 
Aristocrats continues and as nothing lasting can assert itself to 
combat the influences that oppose t h e well-being of the people, 
avarice and lust for power must eventually give way. Where, 
however, such vices are as deeply rooted as they a r e in England, 
one cannot drive the evil from the field of battle with a single 
blow, but he will assuredly be destroyed, as his hour cometh." 

And then—more positive: 
"In Germany and other lands England instigated much mis-

fortune and suffering and heaped insult and ignominy upon them. 
Through a r t f u l intrigue and bribery she will continue to attempt 
to f r u s t r a t e every move on the part of these countries to improve 
their conditions and circumstances. Should this selfish party 
succeed, a war, the like of which no eye has ever beheld, would 
devastate Europe . . . " 

We had the World War, in the meantime, which was terri-
ble enough, and now we have the new conflict, which is a still 
greater terror. And again, as in the World War, t h e eyes of 
England's enemies are focused on Ireland. Will Eire t a k e ad-
vantage of the opportunity to completely liberate herself this 
time? Our prophecy says: Yes! by continuing: 

"But woe to those who spread discord. Ireland will rise and 
emerge from the struggle victorious. Despair will give the peo-
ple of this unhappy land the strength and prowess of giants. The 
havoc will b e frightful and deeds of u n n a t u r a l abomination and 
horror will be perpetrated because foul and heinous crimes have 
been committed for a long time . . . " 

In conclusion: 
"England's lucky star is growing pale, and only continued 

intrigue can save this commercial nation for a short time from 
complete r u i n . . . " 



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Scotland will join Ireland to combat England, the Franciscan 
F r i a r of Mt. Sinai is sure: 

"England, this Merchant State, which out of a spirit of greed, 
countenances all sorts of injustices, will become the theatre of 
w r a t h where t h e perpetration of the greatest acts of abomination 
will t a k e place. Ireland, united with Scotland, will invade Eng-
land and devastate it. The royal family will be p u t to flight, 
and half of t h e inhabitants of the kingdom will be slaughtered. 
Poverty will reign and all of England's foreign possessions will 
make themselves f r e e and i n d e p e n d e n t . . . " 

And t h e Jesuit F a t h e r Nectou augments: 
"When t h e might of England once begins to totter, then a 

general catastrophe will be imminent. As one recognizes the 
approach of summer in the budding fig-trees, so will this event 
be heralded b y the beginning of the disintegration of England. 
England, for her own part, will see a revolution more terrible 
t h a n the one t h a t took place in France, and it will last long 
enough to m a k e it possible for France to come to h e r assis-
tance . . . " 

England's hour of destiny and destruction! Has it really arrived? 



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A MYSTERIONS LEADER 
Revolts and religious wars rage throughout battle-torn 

Europe. What is the next development in this nightmare of 
slaughter and suicide? I t seems t h a t France will be the first 
country—always assuming that we interpret our prophecies right 
—to recover and to stage a mighty, if only temporary come-back. 
Because the prophets say that "out of the West" a mysterious 
king will arise to readjust France and to bring the rest of Europe 
into the grip of his dictatorial hands. Detailed predictions sug-
gest that this aggressive warrior probably is the man who 
emerges victoriously from the new French revolution. Other 
exegetes, however, think backwards and claim to recognize in 
him none else than the former French emperor Napoleon I. Still 
others a r e inclined to the belief that Adolf Hitler impersonates 
this mighty fighter. I leave the decision to my readers and con-
tinue as usual to report "without any editorial comment." 

There is an age-old French folk-saga which longingly cries 
out: 

"When France fights h e r interior battles against partisans 
of the dethroned reigning houses, then a second Napoleon will 
arise, loved by his heroic people, fired with lust for conquest and 
feared by all other nations . . . " 

Whoever the new light on Europe's military firmament is, 
he does not like Germany and Italy. Holzhauser saw him with 
his enormous army in subdued Vienna and our Goerres prophecy 
continues after its blasts at the godless leaders of "divided Ger-
many": 

"But now, which is hard to believe, a person will appear 
whose name will be unknown and whose country not too well 
known. H e will conquer Italy and vanquish Rome in one day. 
God's omnipotence destined him to become one of the great mon-
archs and to punish a great part of t h e world. This strong mon-
arch, girded with the mighty sword, will totally destroy all the 
republics which the pupils of the false philosophers have found-
ed, and subjugate the host of godless disciples who do not obey 
the Church and the law . . . " 

The remark that the republics will be removed may account 
for the puzzling fact that all prophecies, referring to this time 
of general chaos, always mention the existence of "kings and 
princes in Germany," probably a result of the predicted German 
revolution. The Goerres prophecy resumes its narrative as fol-
lows: 

"Religion, for the most part suppressed, will through the 



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conversion of the perverted French nation be reinstated by him. 
And with one mighty swoop, under the sign of the rapacious 
eagle, he will subdue with terror and cruelty the Reich (Ger-
many. The Author) which always falls first into errors which it 
tries to avoid. 

"The spirit of discord which now penetrates into other 
nations will aid this mighty monarch, especially in the case of 
those that lie on the other side of the Rhine (Germany again. 
The A u t h o r ) , to chastise them for their godless and wicked gov-
ernment. For in priestly vestments and worldly raiments have 
they forsaken the faith and t h e laws. Therefore he will devas-
tate the greater part of their governments and shatter the scep-
t r e and crowns of their kings. 

"Exceedingly great will be the misery in the nations, and 
signs will h u r r y on before the tribulations. Ancient States will 
disappear and new ones will arise. Under t h e wings of this 
predatory eagle the Roman empire will be miserably torn asun-
der and everything will be overthrown because many struggle 
for supremacy. 

"And this mighty monarch will for a time, but not for an 
extended period, rule a part of the Orient as well as of the Occi-
dent, so that all t h e world will be impoverished as a punishment 
of the nations in order that they will r e t u r n to God, our Lord . . " 

No, he will not last long—he will go as he came like a comet. 
His mission is fulfilled and he has to make room for a still greater 
successor, the real and final saviour of Europe whom we will 
describe shortly. 

The above illustration of the godless conditions in Germany 
reminds us of "Spielbaehn's" reference to the "new kingdom of 
Christ" as a "nursery of all sorts of sins and evil," and as if he 
had intended to support the other contents of the Goerres proph-
ecy, too, he adds to his vision on t h e religious battle at Cologne: 

"And now will arise an alien king, who will wage a victor-
ious struggle for the right cause. Those of the enemy that are 
left will flee to the birth-tree. Here the last battle for the good 
cause will be fought. The strangers brought the Black Death 
with them into the (German. The Author) land. What the 
sword spared, the pest will devour. The sheltered land (Rhen-
ish-Prussia. The Author) will be without inhabitants and the 
acres lordless . . . " 

According to this vision, which is substantiated by others, 
the invasion of Germany must, indeed, be thorough, because the 
birth-tree stands deep in German-Westphalia. We would like to 
describe now this odd tree and the decisive battle of t h e f u t u r e , 
fought in its vicinity, but there explodes another catastrophe 
ever t h e European countries which has to be taken care of first. 



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THE ELEMENTS STRIKE 
I feel that my readers, who have followed me so loyally, will 

agree with me that occurrences of such a crucial nature as we 
have witnessed them, should suffice to appease even the blindest 
sort of hatred, the most unruly lust for power and the most blas-
phemic faithlessness, at last compelling the stricken nations to 
return to the realm of rational understanding and peace. But it 
seems that the passion which has been for so long a time gath-
ered and nourished in the European physique is too deeply 
rooted therein to subside even in utter exhaustion. And so the 
most bitter tribulation has yet to come—the upheaval of nature 
—and since our prophecies are religious visions, they conceive 
this deluge-like happening as a direct intervention on the part 
of God, fulfilling the warning words of the Holy Scriptures: 

"Then He shall speak to them in His wrath and trouble them 
in His sore displeasure." (Psalm 2, verse 5.) 

"For then shall be great afflictions, such as were not seen 
since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be. And 
except those days should be shortened, there would no flesh be 
saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." 
(Matthew 24:21-22) 

I will not even try to explain the predictions of this amazing 
chapter, but I will mention that scientists consider t h e occur-
rences, as described therein, as being entirely possible—due to 
the heavy air convulsions, caused by incessant gun fire, to the use 
of poisonous weapons of all kinds, to the bacteria-laden accumu-
lations of unburied corpses and to the already existing irregular-
ities in the machinery of Nature as indicated by ever-enlarging 
sunspots,etc. 

Whatever the cause of the new visitation may be, it will be 
extraordinarily dreadful and world-wide, so Father Bernard 
Maria Clausi tells us: 

"In those days (of the Christian persecution. The Author) 
a great divine judgment will come. It will be terrible and a new 
punishment the like of which has never taken place. This judg-
ment will make itself felt in the whole world, and it will be so 
dreadful that those who live through it, will imagine that they 
are the only ones saved. This judgment will be sudden and of 
short duration but frightful . . . " 

The unheard-of character and the sudden appearance of the 
unusual event is attested by dozens of seers and the Secret of 
Melanie exclaimed, as we partly know: 



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"At the first stroke of the flashing intervention of God, the 
mountains and all n a t u r e will quake with fear, because the dis-
orderliness and crime of men has penetrated the very vault of 
heaven. Paris will be burned and Marseilles will be swallowed 
u p by the sea. Numerous great cities will be shaken, convulsed 
and destroyed. The populace will believe that everything is lost, 
will see nothing but m u r d e r and will hear only t h e clang of arms 
and sacrilegious blasphemies. 

"The just ones, too, will have much to suffer. Their prayers, 
their acts of penance, their cries will rise to heaven, and all of 
God's people will implore only for forgiveness and mercy, invok-
ing my help (St. Mary. The Author) and intercession. 

"Then Jesus Christ, through an act of his justice and great 
mercy for the righteous, will command his angels to slay all of 
his enemies. Immediately, suddenly the persecutors of J e s u s 
Christ and all those whose lives have been devoted to sin will 
perish and the earth will be like unto a desert..." 

Sister Nativitas also perceived the convulsions of an en-
raged n a t u r e amid t h e general chaos: 

"And now I see that in various places frightful earthquakes 
and convulsions ensued. I see mountains splitting and bursting 
asunder with horrifying noises. Fortunate it would be, if the 
deafening din and awful fright would be the end. But n o ! A f t e r 
t h e mountains have been torn apart, I see flames of fire, smoke 
and brimstone issuing from their interiors and they will trans-
form entire cities into heaps of ruins and ashes. All this and 
even more frightful occurrences will then happen . . . " 

Even more frightful occurrences? Crop failures, famine, 
old and new pestilences are predicted by "Spielbaehn," the 
Franciscan Friar and other seers, and the Roman prophetess 
Elizabeth Canori-Mora (1774-1825) indicates a wave of m u r -
derous insanity: 

"The heavens became overcast with clouds so dark and 
dense t h a t they horrified everyone. Suddenly a mighty storm 
arose, the howling of which sounded like the roar of an enraged 
lion. Terror and dread took possession of m a n and beast. 

"The people will be then in a state of riot. They will slaugh-
ter one another, insanely and without mercy." 

Hell opens at God's command, the seeress continues: 
"God will make use of the might of the dark regions to ex-

tirpate the sectarians and the godless who sought to overthrow 
and to destroy his Church to h e r very foundations. In their 
arrogant malice they fancied they could thrust him from his 
throne. But he laughs at their crafty cunning, and through a 



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sign from his almighty hand h e will punish them. H e will per-
mit that these blasphemers and hypocrites be chastened through 
the ruthless cruelty of demons and die agonizing and barbaric 
deaths, because they willingly surrendered themselves to the 
powers of hell and allied themselves with them against the 
Church . . . " 

"Yes, it seems," F a t h e r Bernard Maria Clausi confirms, "as 
though all the demons of hell have been given f r e e reign during 
the unheard-of and terrible j u d g m e n t . . . " 

And yet—there is more horror to come. The sun darkens 
for three days. The Blessed Italian Sybil Maria T a ( d i e d 
1837) describes it: 

"God will decree two afflictions. One will originate on earth, 
namely: wars, revolutions and other evils. The other judgment 
comes from t h e air. 

"There will come over the land a dense gloom t h a t will con-
tinue through three days and three nights. This darkness will 
make it utterly impossible to see anything. F u r t h e r , it will be 
accompanied by an infection of the air by pestilence. During 
this terrible visitation the enemies of religion—principally but 
not exclusively—will be swept away. Only blessed tapers will 
b u r n and shed their lights. Whoever attempts, out of curiosity, 
to look out of the windows or go out of doors during this period 
of darkness will fall dead on the spot. During these days people 
should r a t h e r remain within their houses, pray the rosary and 
implore God to be merciful . . . . " 

Similar and additional warnings are to be found in the vis-
ions of the stigmatized virgin Marie Julie Jahenny, who was born 
at Fraudais, Alsace-Lorrain, in 1856. 

"A three-day period of u t t e r darkness will come, and during 
these three days and nights evil spirits will appear in t h e most 
loathsome shapes and most horrid figures. In the air they will 
give expression to the most dreadful blasphemies. Flashes of 
lightning will penetrate your homes, but they will not extinguish 
the lights of blessed candles. Neither the wind nor the storm 
nor the earthquakes will extinguish them. 

"Clouds as red as blood will pass over the skies. The crash 
and roar of the t h u n d e r will convulse the world. Calamitous 
flashes of lightning will throb in the streets and this is at a time 
when lightning usually does not occur. (Winter-time?) The 
earth will be rocked to its very foundations. The sea will cast 
foaming waves over the mainlands. The dead bodies of the god-
less and the righteous will cover the surface of t h e earth. Great 
will then the famine be. Much will be destroyed and three 
quarters of the earth's population will perish. The crisis will 



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break out suddenly and the chastisement will be general all over 
the world." 

This allegedly gigantic f u t u r e sacrifice of h u m a n lives is also 
prophesied by many other seers; and interpreters submit an ad-
ditional observation: 

"In the Apocalypse of St. John this extraordinary judgment 
of God is mentioned, also. It informs us that f o u r angels stand 
prepared on the hour, day, month and year to slay a third part 
of the h u m a n race, and it describes f u r t h e r m o r e a host of riders. 
200 million strong, seated on horses, from whose mouths issue 
fire, smoke and brimstone, through which millions will be de-
stroyed. As the number of all human beings at the present time 
amounts to about 1600 millions, over 300 millions wouid fall vic-
tims to the great purge in the event of the fulfillment of these 
prophecies." 



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THE TIDE TURNS 
The earth steams and reeks in the blasting fire of God's 

wrath, and the people, as many as have been spared, find them-
selves amidst mountains of ruins and in the deepest depths of 
blackest despair. What can they, what shall they do? All seems 
to be lost, everything seems to go into oblivion. 

And at this eleventh hour a great miracle comes to pass in Europe. 
"For, when after the great afflictions the nations have s u n k 

into the depths of poverty," so comforts the Goerres Prophecy, 
"then they will t u r n to God in prayer and implore his mercy so 
that h e will deliver them from the threefold punishment of warr hunger and pestilence. And behold, the help of the Lord will 
manifest itself in such a manner that all the world will be con-
strained to believe in him . . . . " 

And the same prophecy repeats vigorously: 
"Even were the whole world to collapse, such an exceed-

ingly wonderful transformation will then take place that n o 
normal being would have imagined such a change in matters . 

In a similar spirit the Jesuit Father Ricci joyously exclaims: 
"When all the nations are reduced to poverty and are suffer-

ing under appalling chastisements, then the help of the Lord will 
show itself in a moment in which the whole world, seemingly, 
was at the point of collapse . . . " 

Holzhauser, too, rejoices: 
"When the murderous wars and the gory persecutions of the 

Christians have r u n their course, then will ensue, through the 
h a n d of the Almighty, such a wonderful transformation that it 
will be humanly impossible for anyone to describe it . . . " 

Yes, already in the year 1375 St. Catherine of Sienna sensed 
in advance the help in the hour of greatest need: 

"When the grief and the worst misery shall have passed, 
then God will purge the Church in a manner that is withheld 
from the imagination of all human foresight . . . " 

Of what, then, is this "wonderful transformation" to consist? 
In the sudden appearance of a new warrior—the mightiest 

ever seen—who will force all Europe under his permanent con-
trol, rehabilitate everything and lead the whole world towards-
the glorious golden age of lasting peace and solid prosperity. 



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Foretold Long Ago 
There is scarcely anything in the realm of religious mysti-

cism that has been foretold so often, so forcefully, so convincing-
ly and so universally as the coming of this powerful Saviour of 
Europe. 

Yes, it seems that he has already been felt by Isaiah, the 
prophet of the Old Testament. Looking down the vista of cen-
turies, he saw the dawn of a golden age with a great leader and 
sings in his psalms: 

"And the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, t h e mighty God, the 
Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his 
government and peace shall be no end . . . " 

There is also seen in that mighty man of the f u t u r e the 
strong angel who according to the Apocalypse descends to earth 
to allow the ire of God's justice to have its due and forcibly to 
compel the world to mend its ways: 

"And the angel laid his keen scythe upon the earth and cut 
the vineyard of the earth and cast it into the great winepress of 
God's wrath. And the winepress was trodden beyond the city 
and the blood issued therefrom even until it reached the reins of 
the horses at a thousand six hundred stadia . . . " 

But we need not depend on allegorical references regarding 
this topic, for prophecies that directly announce the appearance 
of the Messiah of the Eastern world a r e counted by the dozens. 
Those that are not immediately employed here, are scattered 
throughout the following chapters in coherent connections. 

As early as 385 St. Methodius, the holy Bishop and martyr, 
saw him in a vision. The saint, who at the same time announced 
the birth and rise of Islam, proffered the following explanation 
regarding the "age of despair": 

"Miraculous events will then take place. Thrones and do-
minions will fall before the arm of the mighty m a n who will 
appear. Kingdoms will go to ruins and out of the debris new 
ones will blossom forth . . . " 

The same seer deplored the fact that the Christians of that 
time will fail to display sufficient gratitude for the awakening of 
the great man who bestows upon them a long period of peace. 

In the year 1346 six kings, together with their kingdoms, 
were shown to St. Brigitta in a vision. Of t h e last king who 
evidently symbolizes the great monarch, it is said: 

"I will awaken one who is hungry and who will devour the 
things you have that a r e pleasant. The inherent evils will not 



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cease and there will exist an abundance of discord. The fools 
will rule and the aged ones and sages will not raise their heads. 
Honor and t r u t h will lie prostrate until the coming of him who 
will appease My wrath and who, out of love for righteousness, 
will not spare his soul . . . " 

And the Franciscan Father Lavinsky prophesied: 
"And when in those days religion to a great extent has been 

suppressed, Germany has been dismembered and wars and u n -
heard-of destruction afflicts the entire globe, then, to the aston-
ishment of the world, a great monarch will appear, who will set 
all and everything in order again . . . " 

And anew: 
"Yes, all this will be accomplished by a great monarch to come . . . 
And our Holzhauser: 
"There will then (in the sixth era) be an intrepid monarch 

who will make his appearance and whose name will be "Help of 
God." He will lead everything back to its former state . . . " 

On another occasion: 
"Tandem veniet ille vir fortissimus missus a Domino ex ori-

ente." (Finally this exceedingly gallant man, sent by God, will 
appear out of the East.) 

Out of the deafening uproar of the f u t u r e "French r e v o l u -
tion," Sister of Belley heard, as we will remember, the loud b a t -
tle-cry resounding: 

"Long live the great monarch whom God has prepared for u s . . . " 
The Blessed Amadeus de Silva who died 1482 in Italy, where-

he was born, exclaimed: 
" B u t out of the North a great and very mighty prince will 

come to wage war upon the cities and the mighty ones (of Italy. 
The Author) with unconquerable power . . . " 

And "Spielbaehn," after having spoken of the impending 
battle at the birch-tree and a "German peasant king" at that time: 

"He, then, who wears the imperial crown a f t e r him will be 
the m a n for whom the world had long hoped. He will be the-
Roman Emperor and will give peace to mankind . . . " 

German or Frenchman? 
Holzhauser's assurance that the great man will come out of 

the East and the assertion of the Sister of Belley that she h e a r d 
his name in the revolutionary battles of France brings u s at once 



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face to face with an old and very lively controversy, namely to 
the question: Of what nationality will the f u t u r e hero be? Be-
cause not only Germany and France but Austria and Hungary 
as well claim him as their own. All signs seem to point, however, 
to his German descendency and the French standpoint might be 
easily explained by the assumption that at the time of the great 
German monarch an equally great French king will appear and 
rule in France—an assumption which is substantiated both by 
the Goerres Prophecy (see later) and the previously cited 
French Folk-Saga which states in connection with the appear-
ance of a "Second Napoleon": "France will become next to Ger-
many (!) the greatest political power in Europe." That his name 
is supposed to be K a r l (Charles), that he was allegedly born on 
t h e 17th of August in the year 1887 and that pictures of him 
which existed already in 1490 describe him as "short of stature 
with a parted beard, a large forehead, high eyebrows and an 
aquiline nose," is irrelevant to our theme because genuine proph-
ecies never indulge in trivial details. 

"And in Germany," so announces triumphantly the "Mys-
terious Parchment," a German folk-legend of 1645, "a great man 
will arise, the like of whom has never lived. He is of lowly de-
scent and station but intelligent, courageous and determined, one 
chosen by God as a tool. He assembles a great army and wher-
ever he goes, he conquers the enemy in many great battles and 
they are unable successfully to resist him. On this account he 
is highly honored and all willingly follow him into battle and 
death. Then the enemy will be driven out of Germany, shot to 
pieces and scattered and Germany will be free. Then the people 
will joyously shout Hosannah to the hero, honor him beyond all 
bounds and set a golden crown upon his head and call him em-
peror. Then finally everything will again be put into proper 
order and on the right track . . . " 

It is added, however, that Germany, before all this happens, 
will experience one more catastrophical convulsion of unparal-
leled f u r o r and misery, surpassing even the horrors of the 30 
years' war. 

The assertion that the enemy will be driven out of the land 
sustains again the repeatedly cited prediction that Germany has 
been previously invaded and the Goerres Prophecy illustrates 
now the liberation of Germany, continuing: 

"The end of the mighty monarch (the first one, as we will 
recall. The Author) is now decreed. Because the word is now 
fulfilled and a greaf part of t h e world is chastised through h i m . . " 

What will happen then? All Germany unites anew and rises 
against the invader under national leaders: 



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"Through the help of the Lord, exceedingly powerful gen-
erals will arise out of an old and noble house. As deeply humil-
iated as they were through the above mentioned powerful mon-
arch and brought to dire extremity through distress and calam-
ity, no one could have expected such a transformation . . . " 

And one man stands in the forefront of the movement for 
freedom: 

"For the hands of this strong leader shall be miraculously 
strengthened, and his arm will avenge fatherland, law and 
faith . . . " 

Other nations will ally themselves with him and another 
prophet says, that Spain will belong to them: 

"There will be only one joint action against that strong mon-
arch and against the princes and kings allied with him for the 
betrayal of the fatherland. The influences and the helpful ser-
vices of the whole world will be employed to wage w a r against 
this monarch and his allies. . . " 

The contents of some of these paragraphs caused some in-
terpreters to conclude that Napoleon I (battle of Waterloo) was 
meant by the "great monarch," but the rest of the Goerres proph-
ecy seems to exclude such a belief. And the additional glances 
which we will soon have at these allied nations and the course 
and end of the raging battles confirm our deduction. 



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A TITANTIC STRUGGLE 
It will not be an easy task for the f u t u r e ruler of Europe to 

gain control, because his French predecessor is still strong and 
victorious while he, at first, stands alone with "Prussia, Austria 
and Russia," as the Sister Rosa-Colomba discloses. In addition, 
Vienna is evidently in the hands of his adversary at this time. 

"And I saw," so writes the venerable Servant of God Holz-
hauser, "on the ninth day of April a tempest coming from the 
West (!). And behold: The waters that were in the Danube rose 
and poured out. The same rose to the heights, pressed on the 
city and transformed it almost into a desert . . . " 

That reminds us of the "besieged, severely punished and des-
olate Vienna," as the Franciscan F r i a r of Mt. Sinai beheld it. 

"And I perceived a king (!) in his diadem and an exceeding-
ly great multitude of soldiers. Then, at the same time, I saw t h e 
peace treaty and all men were under the impression t h a t there 
was peace and victory . . . " 

It is therefore assumable that the French king at the height 
of his j triumph forces the conclusion of this new European peace, but the reaction has already set in and the temporary 
victor has to take steps against the new warrior: 

"And behold! I perceived a long chain of tongues and na-
tions and of enemies of the cross of Christ. But they had this 
chain prepared against the house of His great one . . . " 

Frightful is indeed the superior opposition which he has to overcome: 
"And no one believed it. And they came and conquered 

many times, captured the strongest cities, had success in their 
undertakings and prevailed in their predominance . . . . And it 
was taken for granted that it was the end of t h e Reich . . " 
(Germany. The Author) 

Yet, the desperate fight ended with its victory: 
"But still they did not maintain their mastery. Because 

Jesus defeated them, so that all might know that might and 
power, victory and supremacy come from the Lord. They how-
ever, had p u t their confidence in their weapons, their counsels 
their horsemen, their armies. But it was the Lord alone who 
granted them victory and fought His battle through his righteous 
leader . . . 

And the leader strikes with an iron hand: 
"And I saw because of his wrath kingdoms falling into a 



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state of confusion, principalities being overthrown, dominions 
humiliated, states destroyed and practically all reduced to pov-
e r t y . . . " 

Italy and France (see later) will feel the leash of his rage 
especially heavy. The Blessed Amadeus de Silva prophesies: 

"Before the countenance of this mighty m a n and his uncon-
querable leadership Italy's alliances and her might will be un-
done . . . " 

Anna Katharina Emmerich watches him anxiously as he 
strides from battle to battle, f r o m defeats to victories, from pub-
lic acclamations to dangerous desertions, from the very brink of 
destruction to new heights of successes. H e helps t h e church 
and incessantly collects new adherents. Then the decisive hour 
struck. 

"All around him and in the distance I saw a frightfully 
bloody struggle and saw, especially from midnight and evening, 
a great battle. I t was a terrible picture . . . " 

And again: "I saw a picture of a dreadful battle. The en-
tire field was covered with vapor. They shot everywhere out of 
thickets and t h e air, which were full of soldiers. The place was 
low-lying territory and in the distance were great cities. I saw 
St. Michael descending with a great multitude of angels and dis-
persing the combatants. That, however, will only happen when 
everything seems lost. There will be a leader who will invoke 
St. Michael and t h e n victory will descend . . . The enemy were 
in t h e majority b u t the small loyal band overthrew whole lines. 
It was a frightful battle, and a t last only a small band of good 
people were left and they became the victor . . . " 



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THE BATTLE AT THE BIRCH-TREE 
The struggle which Anna Katharina Emmerich witnessed is 

evidently the already-mentioned battle at the birch-tree ("Spiel-
baehn")—the greatest battle of the future, the decisive struggle 
between the old and the new monarch, between light and dark-
ness, between faith and infidelity. This strange birch-tree stands 
in the Prussian province of Westphalia between the villages of 
Holtum and Kirchhermede on the one and Unna and Werl on 
the other side, not too far from the great cities (Anna Katharina 
Emmerich) of the Rhenish industrial center. The original tree 
withered many years ago but in its place another was planted 
immediately by royal command and this tree still stands there. 
And to this day the crucifix, mentioned below, still stands be-
tween two linden trees near Holtum—and the brook, referred to 
in one of the next paragraphs, still flows from "evening to morn-
ing." 

Innumerable articles, books and even dramas have been 
written about this herculean battle of the future, but we will 
satisfy ourselves with two basic prophecies. The first one, handed 
down from mouth to mouth through many centuries, begins, as 
we already know: 

"There will come a time when the world will be averse to 
God . . . Then there will arise a general insurrection so that the 
father will fight against the son and the son against the father 
. . . But then it will not be long before a change takes place. A 

frightful war will break out . . . " 
An alliance of the South marches against the armies of the 

North, according to this prophecy, and the Northern armies are 
headed by a mighty leader: 

"This prince will come from Midday. He wears a white gar-
ment with buttons all the way down. He carries a cross on his 
breast, rides a white steed and mounts the horse from the left 
side because one foot is lame . . . " 

Because of this remark, it is said, Exkaiser William, who suf-
fers from a like infirmity, held that he was the great prince of 
the future; and in this connection it is f u r t h e r interesting to note 
that because of a prediction which said that the battle banner of 
the great monarch would be emblazoned "with lilies in the midst 
of which is depicted the Sacred Heart of Jesus" French regi-
ments purposely had standards of this design made for them at 
the beginning of the World-War, carrying them into battle as 
they believed that conflict to be the great struggle of the future. 
This banner, as well as the white garment and the cross, might 



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be just symbols of faith and light or they might indicate his 
priestly profession as it is suggested later on. 

"This prince will be so daring that no one will resist him. 
He will be founder of peace. Stern will be his rule, as he will 
ban all dance-music and sumptuous mode of dress . . . " 

Then a f t e r a series of preceding battles, h e will engage in 
t h e final struggle at the birch-tree: 

"In the morning in the church at Bremen (village near Werl 
in Westphalia. The Author) he will hear (or read!) mass. From 
Bremen he will ride towards Haar (a hill near Werl. The Au-
thor) and through his field glass will look in the direction of the 
birch-tree to behold his enemies. After that he will make prep-
arations at Holtum. Near Holtum stands a crucifix between two 
linden trees. Before this crucifix he will kneel and pray for a 
time with outstretched hands. (See Anna Katharina Emmerich. 
The A u t h o r ) . Then he will lead his soldiers, who are clothed in 
white, into the line of battle and a f t e r a bloody fight will remain 
the victor. At a brook that flows from evening to morning the 
b r u n t of the battle will rage. Woe to Budberg and Soendern 
(neighboring hamlets. The Author) in those days! A f t e r the 

battle the victorious leader will assemble the people and address 
them in the church . . . " 

The second prophecy regarding this battle originated at the 
outbreak of the World War in the tiny village of Pier near Due-
ren on the Lower Rhine. The 70 years old widow Mrs. Johanna 
Jaquet, who lived there, disclosed that she as a young girl often 
heard her clairvoyant mother saying: 

"There will be sometime in the not too f a r f u t u r e a great 
battle at the birch-tree. This will occur when people come 
through the air and when women wear trousers. The battle will 
be so bloody that one will wade in blood knee-deep. The four 
hostile powers will meet at the tree and the battle will t a k e place 
there. The victor at last has but a small band of soldiers left, 
and he can gather them under the tree . . . " 

A prophecy that dates back to the year 1670 describes in a n 
astonishing manner the new weapons of modern w a r f a r e as well 
as the economic aftermath of the Westphalian battle: 

"Amazing things will happen. Man like the birds of the 
heavens will fly in the air, will ride in wagons without horses 
and artillery will throw shells which in t u r n will fire still f u r -
ther. (Big Berthas. The A u t h o r ) . And the unquenchable 
naphta fire (poisonous gas. The Author) will destroy cities and 
country towns. Women will also take part in the fighting. (See 
"Spielbaehn." The Author.) There will be a multitude of widows 
and orphans and the world will cry: Woe! woe! Hunger and 
misery will be rampant and three acres of the best land will be 



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offered for a loaf of bread. Crop failures and grasshoppers will 
come and the misery will continue for years . *. . " 

Cleaning Up 
The final battle has been won, but the victor is not resting 

on his laurels. He rounds u p a new army and pursues the beaten 
foe. 

"After that strong leader has ferreted out that monarch in 
the open field, he will," so continues the Goerres Prophecy, 
"drive out with the keenness of his sword all his enemies both 
on this side and the other side of the sea . . . " 

That means England and France and his special attack is 
concentrated on France: 

"With unheard-of vengeance he will strike, tear asunder 
and annihilate Gaul (France. The Author) which is stripped of 
every defender and which is in itself disorganized through de-
feat, misery and adversity. Towards midnight as a n eternal 
reward he will give a portion of the land to a descendant of the 
family of kings that left the land in children's shoes. Then woe 
to those who before rent the lilies and took the crowns away 
from them . . . " 

The lily is the flower of the French Bourbons and here we 
might have the great f u t u r e king of France, previously men-
tioned, who will make France next to Germany the greatest pow-
er in Europe. The last reigning Bourbon was Louis XVI, who 
during t h e French revolution was executed with his queen. His 
son fled prison as a child, assumed the name of Wilhelm Nauen-
dorff, reached Delft in Holland in 1834, married Johanna Einert, 
became the father of six children and died 1845. All of his de-
scendants, some of whom live in Switzerland and some in Aus-
tria, bear a marked resemblance to the Bourbons. 

Whatever the new European dictator will do to France and 
other countries he will purge his own land no less severe: 

"Then woe also to those who acquired goods and property 
unrighteously! Woe unto those who have given scandal and 
usurped the sceptre! H e will take terrible vengeance on princes 
and kings who previously were betrayers of t h e fatherland. 
(Presumably after the collapse of Germany and during or after 
the civil war. The Author.) Then woe also to those who robbed 
from the land of their fathers and from the Church! They will 
be compelled to make restitution with interest and thenceforth 
t h e r e will be n o prosperity in the houses of those thieves. In-
escapable punishment will p u r s u e them . . . 

"For, t h a t strong leader has sworn an oath before the coun-
tenance of the Lord t h a t h e will not sheath his sword until he 
has avenged the fatherland an hundredfold . . . " 



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PEACE MAKER AND RE-ORGANIZER 
The first part of the mission of the saviour of the f u t u r e has 

been accomplished. He has put an end to the internal and exter-
nal wars and has laid a firm foundation for a n e w and better 
Europe to live in. 

What will be, then, his next move in the midst of t h e gen-
eral state of ruination and exhaustion? 

H e will calm the lands and will remove t h e debris: 
"All ruins will be removed and what has been demolished 

will be rebuilt. Those who suffer will be provided . . . " (Re-
gensburger Prophecy.) 

He will re-establish discipline and dissolve t h e causes that 
led t o the eternal unrest and hostilities: 

"He will restore decency and simple life and put every-
thing in moral order again . . . " (Lavinsky.) 

"He will r e t u r n all stolen goods . . . to their lawful owners 
and punish the thieves . . . " (Goerres Prophecy.) 

"He will destroy all republics f r o m the ground up which 
were erected by the enemies of order and God . . . " (Holz-
hauser.) 

"He will banish all false worship and the abuses of religion 
will cease . . . " (Sister Nativitas.) 

"He will bring the powers of the State in accord with the 
divine and ecclesiastic statutes and Christian teachings, and the 
trade-guilds will be restored . . . " (Sister Marianne of Blois.) 

"He will bring quietness and security everywhere, convert 
swords into ploughshares, and a general peace will bless all . . . " 
(The Irish priest J o h n Wallich who died 1678.) 

He will consolidate t h e Reich in addition to his kingly friend 
in France and secure permanency to his regime: as the sole ruler 
in Germany: 

"The German lands of Austria will annex themselves now 
voluntarily and permanently to Germany and hold together 
fast. No kingdoms or principalities will exist any longer. In-
stead there will be but one Germany and one branch of the im-
perial family will wear the crown. This sovereign will strength-
en and consolidate Germany. Under his prudent government 
harmony and prosperity will again flourish and Germany's might 
will shine f o r t h over all t h e powers. For Good is with his 
regency ¿". . " (The Franciscan F r i a r of Mt. Sinai.) 



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The same Brother on the sixth day of his visions: 
"The Hanseatic cities, Belgium (!), Holstein, Schleswig, 

Switzerland (!), too, will annex themselves to Germany . . . " 
And the Goerres Prophecy rejoices: 
"That powerful leader will become the mightiest monarch 

of the entire world and his sceptre will be like unto that of Ma-
nasseh . . . " (See later.) 

As a German Catholic h e will bring his fatherland back into 
the folds of the Catholic faith: 

"At that time there will be no more Jews in Germany, and 
the heretics will strike their breasts . . . " (Spielbaehn.) 

The surprising prediction of Germany's complete r e t u r n to 
the Roman Church is clearly confirmed by a n u m b e r of other 
prophets. 

The perpetual danger spot of the Balkans will disappear and 
its nations, too, will be converted to Catholicism: 

"The Slavs will unite and form their own great Western 
Catholic Slavonic State in order to drive t h e T u r k s out of Eu-
rope. The Hungarian nation will go out of existence . . . " (The 
Franciscan Friar of Mt. Sinai.) 

It seems, however, that the great monarch as in t h e case of 
the readjustment of the Balkans is the guilding h a n d in ejecting 
the Turks: 

"The Russians, admonished by the Pope, will become more 
humanely disposed towards the Catholics. Buther the other (the 
great Monarch. The Author) will drive t h e T u r k s out of Eu-
rope . . . " (Sister Rosa-Colomba.) 

Bishop St. Methodius augments: 
"In consequence of the activities of the great monarch Islam will disappear from the West . . . " 
The Jesuit F a t h e r Ricci in a like spirit: 
"The hand of that powerful man will be miraculously 

strengthened and his a r m will avenge the faith . . . Protestant-
ism will vanish and the realm of the T u r k s will end . . . " 

Even they will embrace the Christian creed: 
"The Turks will be driven out of Europe and subsequently become Catholics . . . " (The Bavarian seeress Maria Schuh-macher.) 
What will happen to the Turks who will be driven back into 

Asia? The Franciscan F r i a r answers this question, too: 
"The Turks will settle in Africa and from Constantinople 

the crescent will disappear and in its place the cross will be ven-



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erated, and the Christian religion will spread into their new 
lands. But many inhuman and savage deeds will be perpetrated 
and horrible plagues will be visited upon them before they ac-
cept the t r u e faith . . . 

"Jerusalem will become their capital and salvation and 
blessings will then bestow happiness on these lands. The king of 
Egypt will die and these lands will then become the recipients of 
the benefactions of Jerusalem . . . " 

That Poland will be brilliantly restored, is finally claimed by the venerable Brother: 
"Poland will become independent and more powerful t h a n she ever was . . . " 
And so, at last, the Divine word has come to pass in w a r 

troubled Europe: "Fiat tranquilla magna . . . There will be a 
great calm!" 



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A SAINTLY COMRADE 
His third mission, that of a world-wide peace movement, 

confronts now the great monarch after his reorganization of the 
Old Continent, and that is a task that would probably have been 
too gigantic even for a man of his herculean prowess, had not 
fate provided him with a no less genial and saintly comrade, 
namely an extraordinary Pope. And such a pontiff shall arise out 
of the persecution of the Church. 

Holzhauser perceived in several visions the glorious pair: 
"And behold, after the great struggle I perceived calm in the 

land and observed how the murderers took to flight and how the 
enemies of the Cross perished. Peace made its appearance and 
a triumph-chariot rode towards the West. In this chariot sat 
three great ones in triumphal pomp. I saw these three. The 
tumult of victory calmed down on the globe and the name of the 
Lord Jesus Christ was extolled and glorified over t h e whole 
earth . . . 

"The three great ones are those who will peacefully govern 
the globe and who will hold together the realm in unity. Thou 
sawest the first person in the chariot clothed in ecclesiastical 
vesture and adorned with the crown of a priest. That is the re-
consoled church which will triumph over erroneous doctrines. 
Thou also sawest, f u r t h e r , two others, of which one looked to-
wards midnight and evening and the other towards mid-day and 
morning. These are they who, in holding together all good, will 
maintain the Realm's unity in the closest kind of confedera-
tion . . . " 

Of these two others, the second one is evidently the great 
pope of the f u t u r e who hastens to p u t at the service of the first 
one: the great monarch, the whole stupendous apparatus of the 
chastened and new blossoming Church for t h e world-wide pro-
gram of rehabilitation. 

And in fact, he must also be a man of extraordinary energy 
and piety—this pontiff of the future—if one lends any credence 
to the prophecies which herald his coming and describe him. 

Already in the 13th century the Abbot Werdin saw him at 
the side of the great monarch: 

"The son of man (Pope) will cross the seas (propagation of 
faith. The Author) and after the victory of the son of man and 
the eagle (The great monarch) peace will reign in all the w o r l d . " 

Anna Katharina Emmerich beheld him after the decisive 



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battle and joyously cried aloud: "I saw a n e w pope who was filled 
with glowing zeal for the House of t h e Lord . . . " 

Lamentingly the Benedictine F a t h e r Botin prophesied, as 
we have heard: "The shepherd will be slain and the fold scat-
tered." But t h e n confidently he continues: "And indeed there 
will be t h e n a shepherd who will lead t h e nations in equity and 
the kings in justice. He will be highly honored and esteemed by 
princes and nations." 

And, one day, as Sister Superior Maria Alphonsa (Elizabeth 
Eppinger) was praying for the Church and the pope who reigned 
through the stormy days, she heard the following words spoken 
by a supernatural voice: 

"The sorrows which I will send to the head of my Church 
will transform themselves into joy and jubilation. The Holy F a -
t h e r will set all shepherds who a r e subservient to him a great 
example. That which was foretold regarding him shall be ful-
filled, namely: That I will endow him with wisdom which will 
fill the great ones with astonishment and amazement . . . " 

Impulsively the Sister added the following words of her own: 
"This holy father will be counted among t h e most glorious popes 
who ever lived . . . " 

The pious hermit Johannes of the Cloven Rocks (1234) saw 
the great pontiff even earlier t h a n the Abbot Werdin: 

"In the final age of the world God will awaken a pope who 
leads such a saintly life that even the angels in heaven will have 
cause to rejoice . . . " 

Regarding t h e same subject, the Monk John Vatiguerre, who 
lived in the 13th century and who died as Prior of Weiler, made 
a detailed prophecy: 

"After many afflictions in the whole world a pope will be 
chosen from among those who escaped the persecution of the 
Church, and his election will be by t h e will of God. The angels 
will crown this perfect m a n and through his sanctity h e will re-
form the entire earth and lead all the clergy back to a mode of 
life truly representative of the disciples of Jesus Christ. H e will 
preach in his bare feet and will f e a r the might and power of no 
prince . . . " 

If he is barefooted, he is probably a member of a religious order. 
St. Catherine of Sienna, who perceived him in the year 1376, 

calls him "a holy shepherd of whom t h e nations shall be proud," 
and adds: " A t the mere thought of him m y spirit rejoices in the 
Lord . . . " 



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The Present Pope? 
If our prophecies which all point to the present age are rightly 

understood, then the period of t h e tribulations would have to 
come soon, if it has not broken out already with t h e present war. 
While two attempts were made on the life of the late Pius XI, he 
was neither martyred, driven into exile or even seriously mo-
lested, which is t h e supposed fate of the pontiff reigning during 
the persecution of the Church, and therefore interpreters believe 
that t h e present pope will be the martyr-pontiff. They base 
their calculations on the prophecies of St. Malachy (which are, 
however, not considered authentic by a number of recognized 
exegetes). 

These much discussed prophecies a r e attributed to St. Mal-
achy, bishop and "second apostle of Ireland," who was born in 
Armagh 1094 and died 1148 in Clairvaux, France. I n 112 sym-
bols they give short symbolizations of t h e various popes f r o m the 
year 1143 up to the presumable end of the world. There a r e 
only seven more popes left or fifteen if we include the 8 Anti-
Popes. In the first-mentioned instance, the following symbol 
would have applied to the recently deceased Pope Pius X I : 

"105—Fides intrepida," which translated into English 
means: Unshaken faith. 

In this instance, one is strongly tempted to accept the opinion 
that this characterization seems to tally precisely—as many 
previous symbols have been fulfilled in an astounding manner. 
Pope Pius X I impersonated resolute and fearless faith in a God-
estranged world against all enemies of the Church. 

The present pope would then be the pontiff who would see 
the persecution of t h e Church and who would be at the same 
time the great pope of the future—if the St. Malachy prophecies 
prove their correctness, if the anti-popes are not taken into con-
sideration and if some predictions, cited so far by us, a r e inter-
preted different f r o m our way. Because St. Malachy character-
izes him as follows: 

"106—Pastor Angelicus." I n English: Angelic Shepherd. 
That would conform with all descriptions regarding the ideal 

personality of the coming pope but it would be somewhat out of 
harmony with predictions which said that the saintly pope would 
be elected after the persecution of t h e Church. On the other 
hand, it might materialize after all that he is the pope of the per-
secution and of the victorious t u r n of the tide, while his succes-
sor would be the pontiff of the reformation and resurrection of 
the Catholic creed. His symbol is: 

"107—Pastor et Nauta"—Shepherd and Mariner. 



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and this name reminds us of the prophecy of the Abbot Werdin. 
who said that the great pope of t h e f u t u r e would cross the seas 
to carry the Catholic faith through the entire world. 

Whoever the great pope is, his span of life is very limited if 
we believe in an additional prophecy of t h e just mentioned Monk 
Hilarion: 

"A saintly m a n will come and establish a lasting peace be-
tween the eagle (great monarch) and the priesthood. (State 
and Church. The Author.) This holy man, who will be obeyed 
by all Christians, will reign four years and then lie down and 
die . . . " 

Disciples of his school, however, will follow in his footsteps: 
"And soon after him, God will send three men, bountifully 

endowed with wisdom and virtue. These m e n will administer 
the laws and regulations of the deceased saintly m a n and spread 
the unsullied teachings of Christianity everywhere . . . " 

One of thèse three: "shepherd and mariner" has already 
been symbolized. The two others a r e according to St. Malachy: 

"108—Flos Florum"—Flower of flowers, 
destined to see the height of the Catholic triumph and 

"109—De medietate lunae"—From the half of the moon 
fated to witness another gradual decline of faith "after 25 years 
of perfect peace." (Secret of Melanie.) 



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THE GOLDEN AGE 
Both titans of the f u t u r e will meet in Rome for historic con-

sultations and decisions. 
"Even before the Christian churches are revived and unit-

ed," so declares Hilarion, "God will send an eagle, who with the 
enlightened people near the Rhine and the sea towards the North 
as well as with several other nations will journey to Rome, 
bringing there much good and joy . . . " 

It is assumable that on this occasion the great monarch will 
officially be made Emperor (see "Spielbaehn"), that is that he 
will be formally invested by the pontiff with the crown of the 
"1000 years' Roman Empire of the German Nation," which be-
gan on Christmas 800 with Charles the Great and ended in 1806 
with Emperor Francis II of Austria. 

And it is also probable that on the same auspicious occasion 
the gigantic ecclesiastical Council will be held which Holzhauser 
in accord with many other seers predicts: 

"And then under his instigation and protection, there will 
be held in Rome a great and general Council which will prove to 
be t h e greatest and most magnificent in the history of the 
Church . . . " 

The purpose of this Council is to proclaim universal peace, 
to establish globe-encircling laws and to accept one common faith 
and Church for all: 

"And he (the great monarch) in t h e assembly of men, who 
are sincerely united through piety and wisdom, will," so explains 
the Goerres Prophecy, "with the assistance of the Holy Father 
draft new laws and regulations to fetter the spirit of dissension 
and swindle, in order to begin a new century and to educate 
where there will be only one fold and one shepherd, who will 
give peace to t h e world and to all those of good will. . . " 

Also a brilliant public festival of thanksgiving and victory 
will be celebrated—in St. Peter's Cathedral—as many prophets 
assert. 

The assembly in the rejoicing City of the Seven Hills will be 
climaxed by the fulfillment of a dream which President Wilson, 
Artiste Briand of France and other statesmen had vainly tried 
to make come true, namely: the formation of an ideal world-
wide League of Nations. Holzhauser spiritedly exclaims: 

"And there will be a great chain forged to weld the peace, 
a great and wonderful chain that will include the whole world 



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and all its inhabitants in the unity of an autocracy. And his 
dominion will be from the rising of the sun to the going down 
thereof . . . " 

The execution of the decrees of t h e powerful Council, com-
bined with the shining personal example of both the pope and 
the monarch, will lead, as all our prophets happily conclude, to 
a veritable heaven on earth: in short to the Golden Age of man-
kind. 

And the great monarch—the mighty warrior, t h e liberator 
of Europe and the creator of a new world? 

"He will journey into the Holy Land and lay his crown on 
the grave of the Saviour," (Telesphoros.) 



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THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS 
This Golden Age of our understanding must, of course, not 

be confused with the contemporary conception of t h e "new order 
of things" of which so much is said and written since the out-
break of the new European war; because these blissful days of 
the future, as our prophets see them, are evidently not mainly 
the result of military domination and regimentation, forced upon 
the defeated nations by the victorious country, but a voluntary 
and general r e t u r n of mankind to the former Christian princi-
ples of justice and charity which blossom f o r t h to their highest 
brilliance in the sunlight of heavenly graces and in the fertile 
soil of the rejuvenated Catholic faith. 

"Verily," F a t h e r Maria Clausi jubilantly exclaims, "the en-
tire world will then be reorganized through brotherly love and 
holiness. All h u m a n beings will respect and assist each other, 
and in their desire to do good, all strife and war will vanish . . . " 

Holzhauser: "At that time many just and learned men will 
be living on earth . . . The graces of the f e a r of God and piety 
will be showered upon man in abundance. As the Holy Scrip-
tures a r e fully and thoroughly understood, t h e r e will be no occa-
sion for disagreements, contradictions and heresies. And the 
people will be endowed with exceptional capacities in the realm 
of the divine as well as the natural sciences . . . " 

"Mighty men possessing great gifts of prophecy will arise," 
St. Hildegard asserts, "and in the sons and daughters of men the 
seeds of justice will germinate and blossom. The people of these 
days will revert to the practice of respectability a n d honor as 
was dictated by the customs and proprieties of the olden times . " 

The long-cherished dream of complete disarmament will 
finally come to pass: 

"The new kings will vie with their people in seeking to allow 
the divine law to be the governing factor in all things. They will 
be the right arm of the Church which will be strong, humble, 
poor, zealous and the imitator of the virtues of Jesus Christ. 
They will abolish and suppress the use of weapons of w a r and 
permit the use of iron only for the cultivation of the soil and 
the supplying of certain other necessities of life. Those who 
make any other use of it will be punished by iron and sentenced 
to banishment . . . " 

That in these same happy days a new world-wide League of 
Nations and an ideal United States of Europe will be established, 
Holzhauser has already given us to understand. 



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"An altogether new race of h u m a n beings, thus re-fash-
ioned," St. Hildegard continues, "will enter a veritable summer 
in spiritual life. Everything will again be restored in its reality. 
All religious as well as the various classes of society will remain 
steadfast in the path of righteousness, justice and goodness, with-
out concerning themselves about wealth and abundance, because 
the religious life will attain a height that will f a r transcend any 
thought of earthly riches and selfish interests . . . " 

Can it therefore be amazing that even t h e angels in heaven 
would find it pleasant to be on earth during this Golden Age? St. 
Hildegard concludes this part of her prophecies with the obser-
vation: 

"During this same time t h e holy angels will n o longer be re-
strained as they were previously by the noxious vapor of the 
sins of the world from mingling with h u m a n society and enter-
ing into intimate contact with h u m a n beings, because they will 
be enchanted by t h e rehabilitation and sanctity of their lives . . " 

Yes, Jesus and His mother Mary, too, will descend visibly 
upon the earth, if we accept the prophecies of the venerable 
Louis Maria Grignon de Montford, a n Apostolic Missionary of 
France, who lived from 1673 to 1716. In one of his many pre-
dictions he forebodingly wrote: 

"When Jesus in all His glory appears on t h e earth for the 
second time, as He certainly will, to reign Himself, He will choose 
no other way for His journey than through Mary, through whom 
He came so safely and with such perfection on t h e first occasion. 
But there will be a difference between His first and last coming. 
The first time He came in secret and in obscurity. The second 
time H e will come in glory and in splendor . . . and on the same 
advent H e will reveal Mary, His mother, as she actually is, in all 
h e r personal charm and beauty . . . B u t h e r e is a profound 
mystery that man cannot understand or comprehend. There 
speech fails: Hie tacet omnis lingua . . . " 

Bountiful Harvests 
Even the elements seem to wish to make these blessed days 

still happier in order that the Scriptural passage be fulfilled: 
"Seek ye therefore the kingdom of God and His justice; and all 
these other things shall be added u n t o you." 

Anna Katharina Emmerich (after she saw the conversion 
of three nations—Germany, France and England—to the Catholic 
f a i t h ) : 

"Now everything was gloriously renewed and revivified. The 
water courses had again attained the fulness of their flow and 



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the resplendent green of the flowers was richer and more beau-
tiful t h a n ever . . . " 

The Benedictine F a t h e r Botin: "About this time (after the 
European uproar. The Author) the dew of heaven will fall upon 
the Church and upon the earth and unusual f r u i t f u l harvests 
will follow . . . " 

And St. Hildegard again: 
"In these days of benediction, clouds of fruitfulness and 

magnificent prosperity will spread themselves over the earth be-
cause the people will have given themselves wholly to the works 
of righteousness, while in previous times the elements were des-
ecrated and, through t h e sins of humanity, their capacity for 
bringing forth good crops were rendered impotent . . . " 

The German clairvoyant Sibylle von Kernel (1670), after 
describing the late World War and its resulting depression: 

"And the misery will continue for years . . But then life will 
be lived in a simple and frugal manner and very rich harvests 
will f u r t h e r and promote t h e prosperity of t h e nations . . . " 

The Franciscan Father of Mt. Sinai: "Heaven's remunera-
tion will, in the end, be the reward of the persevering. Cut and 
withered flowers, plants and herbs will bloom in redoubled vigor. 
Blessed years will arrive . . . and blessed those who live to see 
them . . . " 

Adam's fall has been avenged and the Garden of Eden is 
marvelously returning. Erased is the judgment: "Cursed is t h e 
ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all t h e days of 
thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee." 

Instead, a restored ground and a restored climate will pro-
duce a restored flora by "handfuls and abundance," to be en-
joyed by all, Isaiah says. 

"The desert shall blossom as the rose . . . instead of the 
thorn shall come u p the fir tree, instead of the briar shall come 
u p the myrtle tree. 

And Isaiah adds: 
"The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard 

shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and t h e young lion and 
the failing together; and a little child shall lead them. And the 
cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down to-
gether: and t h e lion shall eat straw like t h e ox, and t h e sucking 
child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall 
p u t his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not h u r t or de-
stroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of t h e 
knowledge of t h e Lord, as the waters cover the sea . . . " 



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"And God shall wipe away all tears f r o m their eyes; and 
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither 
shall there be any more pain: for the former things a r e passed 
away." 

Obviously, however, humanity will not be able to enjoy this 
supreme happiness for very long, as the Golden Age will last 
only a q u a r t e r of a century. Why? Mary, the Mother of God, 
in her revelations to the shepherdess Melanie on t h e heights of 
La Salette lamented: 

"This peace between the people will not be of long duration; 
twenty-five years of rich harvests will cause them to forget that 
t h e sins of humanity are the cause of all the evils which come 
upon the earth." 

The Anti-Christ will be born, the last days of the world 
are forming shape. 



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IS DESTINY READY TO STRIKE? 
On our way through the mysteries of the f u t u r e we now 

come face to face with queries that belong in the category of the 
most difficult and perplexing questions with which our theme is 
concerned. 

Has the hour of the great catastrophe arrived? Is the new 
European War the beginning of the so often indicated decade of 
despair? Are the great monarch and the Anti-Christ prepared 
to appear? Will we witness the ruin and rebirth of the Occident, 
the reformation of mankind and the Golden Age, or do these 
predicted events, wrongly interpreted, lie in a remote distance? 
Who could give a positive answer to these riddles? 

Following our prophecies, however, we find two clearly rec-
ognizable lines of demarcation along which it would be possible 
for the mighty drama and the tragedy of the future's destiny to 
unfold. 

On the one side they seem to mark plainly the recent World 
War as the prologue and the first step to the general European 
clean-up, while on the other hand they see in t h e eclipse of the 
Golden Age of peace and the Christian triumph the public ap-
pearance of the Anti-Christ. At the same time, they repeatedly 
designate the whole era of the coming gloomy and joyous occur-
rences as the "last century," the "last age," the "final period of 
the world." 

If, out of all this, a deduction is permissible, it would be that 
the age of catastrophe began with the World War and that this 
era of catastrophe ushers in the last century of the world. 

Events which we are witnessing now in Europe tend to con-
firm this assumption, and if f u r t h e r developments sustain it, 
then we would find ourselves much nearer to the Last Judgment 
than many assume. 

By the way, what are "last ages," what are centuries con-
sidered in the light of religious mysticism? As Sister Nativitas 
in spirit once saw the coming war and the triumph of the Church, 
she cried aloud with a sigh: 

"But when, O Lord, will come the time of joy? How long 
shall we yet be compelled to wait?" 

A voice answered her: 
"Behold, the age of the world is transient and the time of 

My last coming draws nigh . . . " 



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The n u n ventured to ask for more specific informations and 
the supernatural voice replied: 

"This is a mystery that I have reserved for Myself in the 
innermost depths of My heart." 

The n u n only sensed that the time of happiness would pre-
cede that of the Anti-Christ. Some time later the mysterious 
voice allowed itself to be heard again: 

"Do not forget that one can no longer speak of things con-
cerning the world in terms of thousands of years. To her is 
vouchsafed only a span of several, and indeed, only a few, cen-
turies." 

Alarmed by the thought that the earth was destined to sink 
into oblivion so soon, t h e n u n piously sought f u r t h e r to interro-
gate t h e invisible herald, in whom she had recognized t h e Sav-
iour, b u t in a spirit of resignation finally abandoned t h e attempt. 

"I recognized that it was His will to reserve for Himself the 
knowledge of the exact time of this event, and therefore did not 
feel inclined to ask any more questions." 

Nevertheless, she often pondered this experience, and d u r -
ing the hours of a certain night she heard a loud voice thun-
dering: 

"Woe, woe, woe to the last century which is descending! 
What tribulations precede its commencements!" 

"Out of this mighty voice I recognized," the n u n explained, 
"that these woeful tribulations will m a k e their appearance in t h e 
age before the judgment. And as I pondered over and weighed, 
in God, the century, I saw, that which begins with 1800 will not 
yet be t h e last." 

Sister Nativitas lived, as w e have previously read, between 
t h e years 1731 and 1798. 

Directly in our 20th century is set by t h e Sister Bertina 
Bouquillion of St. Louis (1850) t h e appearance of the Anti-
Christ after the advent of t h e Great Monarch: 

"The end of t h e ages draws on apace and the Anti-Christ 
will not delay his coming. Neither we nor-the sisters who suc-
ceed us will see him, b u t they who come thereafter will fall un-
der his dominion." 

The same n u n then very definitely prophesies: 
"So f a r as t h e end of the world is concerned, this will occur 

during this century, but the time of t h e tribulations and conse-
quent judgment will take place between the years 1900 and 
1950." 



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The end of the age of catastrophe was predicted by the 
Franciscan Friar of Mt. Sinai as follows: 

"Blessed years will t h e n again m a k e their appearance, and 
the year 1957 will heal all wounds. Blessed are they who live 
to see this year." 

With the same definite certainty the ecstatic virgin Maria 
von Moerl (1812-1868) who like Anna Katharina Emmerich 
bore the stigmata of the five sacred wounds of Christ, prophesied 
similarly: 

"The f o u r t h successor of Pope Pius I X will live to see the 
great revolution within the Church." 

That would again in accordance with all papal prophecies 
indicate our present pontifex. 

We now come to a n u m b e r of private reckonings, several of 
which are based on corresponding visions and others predicated 
upon conjecture and supposition. Naturally, they are all of a 
purely subjective character and therefore must be considered 
in this sense. 

Referring to the prophecy of Sister Bouquillion regarding 
the year 1950 one interpreter remarks: 

"In the event that Sister Bertina prophesied correctly and 
the Anti-Christ should actually make his appearance in the 20th 
century, it would of course be obvious that the time under t h e 
Great Monarch would necessarily have to arrive soon. And, 
incidentally, this period of time would last a generation, as we 
were told. All this is possible because the World War proved 
that rapid and momentous changes are the order of the day." 

Specially in our days when nations crash over night and 
empires are threatened with sudden destruction, when every-
thing is in full uproar and everything points to still worse events 
to come! 

However, we have an additional deduction that was made by 
no less a personage than Holzhauser himself. This German vis-
ionary, so often quoted by us, who so astoundingly and correct-
ly foretold the occurrence of so many f u t u r e events, finds the 
duration of the existence of the Church set forth in t h e Mystical 
Revelations of St. John—in the passage where it is said that the 
woman will be nourished in the desert for 1260 days (meaning 
years. The A u t h o r ) , and he reckons therefrom that the duration 
of t h e Church's existence will last either to t h e year 1995 or 
2015. With this h e is in accord with other prophecies and deduc-
tions and therewith with the alleged period of the birth and reign 
of the Anti-Christ. 



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In the figure 666 of t h e Revelations Holzhauser recognizes 
the birth-day and the age of the Anti-Christ and deduces there-
from that 1944 would be the year of the birth of the Son of Cor-
ruption and Ruin. 

The religious publication "Voices of St. Canisius" brought 
out a corrective revision of Holzhausers's writings and concluded 
that Holzhauser really meant the year 1954. 

If all this is so, another conclusion is clearly within reach: 
namely, that the Great Monarch is actually in readiness for an 
early appearance and the following chapter shall have more to 
say regarding this particular point. 

"A Historical Birth" 
Daily, for a span of nearly forty years, a very pious French 

Friar has been praying to heaven: 
"Mitte, Domine, quem missurus es!" "Send us, O Lord, him 

whom it is Thy will to send us!" 
Since the great World War that so clearly indicated the f u r -

ther development of affairs, multitudes of Christians and reli-
gious congregations in Europe have been praying the same 
prayer with him. Because they feel and know that there must 
arise in the world a great leader, who, with iron hand, can rescue 
humanity from the swampy abyss of its present aberrations and 
lead it back into the sunlight of salutary understanding and en-
during peace. 

Evidently these prayers shall soon be heard, for t h e great 
man, the mighty emperor, the Titan of the future, is actually sup-
posed to be living in our midst. 

Yes, he is supposed to have been born quite some time ago— 
to the preparing himself for his herculean task somewhere in 
concealment, ready to appear in those fateful hours which, ac-
cording to our prophecies, a r e destined to result from the present 
war and its catastrophical developments. 

In this connection, considerable attention was attracted to 
an article which was published in 1923 in the German "Zentral-
blatt f u e r Okkultismus" (Central Newspaper for Occultism) 
which spoke of a world-historical birth in Europe. 

"The effect of this birth made itself perceptible from the 
East to the West (see Holzhauser. The Author) but to t h e short-
sighted its outward significance was not to become apparent un-
til between 1935 and 1936." 

While this mystic announcement was previously and almost 
generally applied to our great monarch, it seems now that it had 



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meant either Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, the alleged pred-
ecessors of the mighty m a n of the f u t u r e . 

More to the point is a German folk-prophecy that had its 
origin in the year 1622. Ostensibly referring to the recent World 
War, it reads: 

"The month of May will arm itself with might for war, but 
it is not yet the time. 

"The month of J u n e will likewise extend an invitation to 
war, b u t it is also not yet the time. 

"The month of J u l y will be the first to act so inhumanly 
cruel that many will be compelled to take leave of wife and child. 

"The month of August will hear of wars at all ends of the 
world. 

"September and October will bring with them a great blood-
shed. 

"In November one will see miraculous events. About this 
time the child, whose wetnurse will be from the morning (East), 
is 28 years old. H e will perform great things." 

A well-known interpreter explained this strange prophecy 
as follows: 

"In May preparations were made in Serbia for an attempt 
on the life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the successor to the 
Austrian throne, and world-wide pacts and alliances were con-
cluded. 

"On J u n e 28th the Archduke and his consort were assas-
sinated. 

"On J u l y 28th, following the mobilization of Austria, Serbia 
and Russia, t h e Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against 
Serbia ensued. 

"In August fourteen additional declarations of w a r resulted. 
"In September and October bitter battles were already en-

gaged in in Belgium, Northern France, East Prussia and Serbia. 
"The unexpected effects of t h e German and Austrian giant 

guns were experienced in November, together with the sensa-
tional flights of the Zeppelins over distantly located enemy teri-
ritory and the German army's signal march of victory. In this 
same month the surprising battle of the Marne was fought which, 
over night, turned the tide of the conflict in favor of the Allies. 

"At about this time, the m a n to whom t h e prophecy of the 
year 1622 seems to point was in his 28th year, for he was born 
on the 17th of August in the year 1887." 

Therefore, he would be 53 years of age at the present time. 



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If that tallies, it would indeed seem very strange that the 
man who, already at that time must have found himself at the 
battle f r o n t did not arise to perform his great deeds. But the 
devastating struggle of t h e nations that transformed t h e world 
into a veritable ruin, passed on into the annals of history with-
out even so much as a trace of his existence having been dis-
covered. 

Hed he not yet learned the role that destiny assigned to him 
in the cradle? 

Or are our prophecies right again when they aver that the 
recent World War was only an overture to the ensuing and still 
greater hostilities? That t h e great m a n was to be held in reserve 
to appear in the most critical, in the eleventh hour? 

If such is t h e case—if this mysterious man lives—waiting, 
what impressions and thoughts must flare up in his soul at the 
sight of the present European conditions t h a t rashly press for-
ward against his avenging anger and annihilating sword! 



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CLOSING REMARKS 
Unquestionably, the minds of my American readers who 

have traveled so f a r with me through the inferno of Europe's 
agonizing tribulations and the heaven of the world's jubilant re-
incarnation, have often asked themselves t h e uneasy question: 

What predestined role will America play in these world-
transforming times of fate? Will American soldiers march again 
"over t h e r e " to sacrifice their lives for belligerent leaders of 
European nations? 

We must frankly admit, and all have certainly noticed for 
themselves, tRat our prophets and prophetesses have concerned 
themselves either very little or not at all with this matter. Their 
minds were evidently too heavily burdened with thought and 
reflection on the unusual character of the events which, in spirit, 
they saw coming to their own native land, so that they did not 
ponder, t h e destiny of a country so little (if at all) known at 
that time and so remotely situated from the immediate scene of 
action. 

Nevertheless, America could become directly or indirectly 
involved in the vortex of European catastrophes — directly 
through her help to the Allies and through the universal effects 
of t h e severe convulsions of n a t u r e which allegedly are to occur 
in the entire world, and indirectly through the economic and 
other obstructions and disturbances which such revolutionizing 
happenings must necessarily bring about to the detriment of the 
whole globe. 

B u t at the same time a glorious missionary task has there-
with been assigned to America: namely, to give a guiding and 
admonishing example to the deluded Old Continent; to help it at 
the proper moment in the re-establishment of peace and, in a 
spirit of f r a t e r n a l co-operation, to do its full share in hastening 
the dawn of the Golden Age. America will nobly acquit herself 
in the performance of this sublime task, if t h e r e is any t r u t h in 
two ancient German legends. 

While the first one, which originated in Austria, indicates 
an armed American entry in the European hostilities (provided 
that it did not refer to the American participation in the World 
W a r ) , it suggests, at the same time, a final co-operation between 
America and the Great Monarch: 

"The Lily, reigning in the upper part, will be agitated against 
the Lion, invading his land and killing his children. In the same 
year, the Son of Man who leads the ferocious warriors and rules 



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in the land of the moons, will navigate the sea with a large army, 
to enter t h e helpless country of t h e Lion. And in exactly the 
same year, the Eagle from the rising sun shall come with a great 
multitude of his brood, helping the Son of Man. As soon as the 
encampments of the armies have been devastated, there will 
reign great fear in the world, and the very same days will see a 
brutal war in a part of the Lion's realm. Another day will be 
experienced by mankind, and a bloody deluge is to arise. The 
Lily will lose its crown which will fall prey to t h e Eagle. During 
the four following years mighty battles will be fought in the 
world amongst those who are believers in faith. The greatest 
part of the world will be destroyed . . . and the Son of Man and 
the Eagle will gain the upper-hand." 

All interpreters seem to agree on one point, namely, that 
the Son of Man who crosses the ocean to enter the Lion's land, 
represents the United States of North America. But what nation 
is meant by the Lion, which one by the Lily and which one by 
the Eagle? If England is the Lion, France the Lily and Germany 
the Eagle, as it is commonly understood now, and if the Son of 
Man (America ) a n d the Eagle (the Great Monarch of the f u -
ture) a r e to remain victorious in the end, then t h e f u r t h e r as-
sumption is acceptable that America is indeed fated to t a k e a n 
active and decisive h a n d in the coming clean-up and reorganiza-
tion of Europe. Our second prophecy stresses this point by 
saying: 

"America continues the enactment of a great and spectacular 
drama. The North toils diligently to advance h e r cultural devel-
opment and to multiply her resources to insure h e r well-being. 
She understands how to preserve her freedom and expand her 
influence and authority. 

"All immigrants, many of whom come f r o m Southern Ger-
many and bring considerable wealth with them, will consider 
themselves fortunate to have forsaken Europe. 

"America, from one end to the other, will move steadily for-
ward to meet her destiny. Her mission is great, h e r goal glori-
ous, and as the sole teacher of Europe, she will demonstrate 
what the freeman who honors the law and respects the rights of 
h u m a n beings can accomplish. 

"Nations and h u m a n beings are created to be independent 
and self-reliant and the selfish maneuverings of politics should 
not encroach upon their happiness. North America demonstrates 
what intelligence, understanding and freedom can accomplish 
and this paragon will be an instructive teacher for young and 
old." 



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God grant that it will be so! God grant that America will 
remain forever the paragon and the teacher of the nations—to-
day, when civilization is threatened with u t t e r destruction, and 
tomorrow, when a helping h a n d is needed to rebuild a new and 
better world out of ruins and despair. 



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EPILOGUE 
REACTION 

Hosannah to the Son of David!—Crucify Him! 
Ungrateful and transient are indeed the mind and temper of 

the earth-born! While still clearly remembering the horrors of 
the devastating afflictions, while still vividly witnessing the most 
convincing display of divine omnipotence, beauty and goodness, 
and while still basking in the radiant sunshine of the Golden 
Age, the thoughts and wishes of man t u r n slowly again towards 
error, unrest, hate, atheism and new unholy struggles and wars. 

How is such a spectacle possible after all the prosperous and 
happy times? One interpreter explains it as follows: 

"The history of the life of Jesus Christ repeats itself in the 
history of His creation: the Church. As Jesus became popular 
with the people, and therefore began to become dangerous, the 
High Priests hastily held counsel among themselves and said: 
What shall we do? This man performs many miracles. If we 
allow Him to labor unhindered, all will believe in Him. There-
upon they determined to kill Him. So also, when the Church 
celebrates her triumph under the great monarch, the world-
spirit will invent and fabricate new plans to humiliate, weaken 
and destroy her." 

And so shall we better understand the previously cited 
lamentation of the Mother of God in her revelation on the Mount 
of La Salette: 

"This peace between the people will not be of long duration; 
twenty-five years of rich harvests will cause them to forget that 
the sins of humanity are the cause of all the evils which come 
upon the earth . . . " 

And Bishop St. Methodius warningly prophesied already in 
the year 385: 

"In the final age of the world the Christians will not display 
enough gratitude for the great grace which became their portion 
through the awakening of the Great Monarch nor for the glori-
ous time of lasting peace and the fruitfulness of the earth which 
his appearance made possible . . . " 

They will again become as depraved as they were before 
the advent of the great and so horrible visitation. Bishop Meth-
odius angrily continues: 

"They will again even surrender themselves to a life of vice 
and profligacy: to arrogance, vanity, obscenity, wantoness, hate, 



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jealousy, gluttony and other vices, so that the wounds of their 
sins will reek worse t h a n pestilence before God . . . " 

This life of depravity will again lead to godlessness and en-
kindle anew the anger and w r a t h of heaven: 

"Then there will be many who will begin to doubt whether 
the Catholic faith is the one that alone can save, and whether 
Christ was actually the Son of God and the Saviour of the 
World. Therefore false doctrines will arise and confusion and 
perplexity will be brought about. The just God will become so 
angry and provoked at this that He will give Lucifer and all the 
devils again power to come out of hell on the earth and to lead 
the godless to corruption and perdition in real earnest . . . " 

This period after the appearance and the reign of the Great 
Monarch is called the Age of Debacle by Holzhauser, and that 
because of the new abating of faith and the new horrors and 
devastations that will take place and continue from the event 
of t h e Anti-Christ until the end of the world. 

"The triumph of the Church will only be short and merely 
last until he who is to come, shall come—the son of ruin and cor-
ruption, who will unleash Satan anew . . . " 

The t r u e and genuine peace of the Golden Age will soon be 
followed again by one that deceives the faithful and lulls them 
anew into a sense of false security. Sister Nativitas had the fol-
lowing additional vision: 

"I saw myself transported to a spacious room, resembling a 
church, that was filled with nothing but priests who were arrayed 
in magnificent white surplices as though they were celebrating 
an important feast. They sang hymns of jubilation. Joy and 
contentment shone out of their eyes as if a great victory had 
been won." 

However, they did not see that the time of the Church's tri-
umph was nearing the end: 

"Then, suddenly, the dear Saviour stood beside me. H e was 
at about the age of thirty years (the time immediately preceding 
His passion. The Author) and held in His hand a large cross 
which h e contemplated with a sorrowful expression upon His 
face. And speaking, He said: 

"You will soon become aware of a great transformation. F o r 
the end has not as yet set in and they have not as yet reached 
the goal, as they suppose. To be sure, the dawn begins to break, 
but the age that follows will be stormy and full of suffering." 

Then she saw "wicked priests who will prepare great sorrow 
and affliction for the Church and she experienced in advance new 
periods of unrest, revolutions and wars. 



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"And therefore the Church, although she will enjoy peace 
for a considerable length of time (Golden Age. The Author) will 
never be altogether f r e e from apprehension, because she will 
witness many wars at various times. These wars will be inter-
rupted by only short periods of armistice, and there will be many 
revolutionizing changes made in the civil laws . . But the closer 
one approaches to the time of the general judgment, the shorter 
will be the duration of the uprisings, just as the periods of peace 
will be shorter after each of these wars. Because, before the last 
ages, there will be hardly any time left for either the just to do 
good or the godless to do evil . . . " 

The spurious peace referred to by the above mentioned 
prophetess was also heralded by the revelations of La Salette: 

"There will be a kind of false peace before the advent of the 
Anti-Christ. Man's only thought will be upon diversions and 
amusements. The wicked will indulge in all sorts of sin, but the 
children of the Holy Church, the children of the faith, My sin-
cere followers, will wax strong in the love of God and in the 
virtues that are dear to me. Happy the humble souls t h a t are 
guided by the Holy Ghost. I will fight with them until they 
shall have reached the completion of age . . . " 

U N E N D I N G DISORDERS 
Armed disturbers of the peace will precede the coming of the 

Anti-Christ, and these will prepare and make straight the way 
for him. The revelations of La Salette begin their description 
of t h e last age as follows: 

"A fore-runner of the Anti-Christ, with his troops, drawn 
from various nations, will battle against the t r u e Church, the 
sole redeemer of the world. He will cause the shedding of much 
blood and will strive to abolish the adoration and worship of 
God so that he may be looked upon as a God himself." 

And the result of this new challenge to heaven? 
"The earth will be scourged with all sorts of plagues, with 

the exception of pestilence and hunger, which will be universal. 
There will be wars until the last w a r that will be waged by the 
ten kings of the Anti-Christ, all of whom have a similar aim and 
alone will rule the world . . . " 

I n other words: The League of Nations, founded by the 
Great Monarch, will crumble and dissolve, his dominion of the 
world will be at a n end and again, as before, nations will form 
alliances with one another and against pne another. The ancient 
European miseries will begin anew and with them militarism and 
the old system of political economics—God-challenging evils: 

"Nature demands revenge for humanity and she trembles 



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and quakes with terror and dread in anticipation of what must 
overtake the crime-stained earth. Tremble, O earth, an ye who 
profess to serve Christ, b u t who, within yourselves, adore and 
worship only yourselves. Tremble! For God will deliver you 
into the hands of your enemies because the holy cities are in a 
state of depravity and corruption." 

The faithful and the godless will once again, and indeed 
almost continuously, be caught in the throes of struggles with 
one another. St. Hildegard also says: 

"Injustice will again raise its head, but it will be suppressed 
anew. War, famine, pestilence and the scourge of death will ex-
ercise dominion, but only temporarily. They will appear here 
and there and disappear on the morrow." 

St. Brigitte also emphasizes the fact that these disorders are 
incessant and endless and that they will continue until the end 
of the world: 

"But now, because wickedness and profligacy again waxes 
strong, because My sufferings also are again being forgotten and 
neglected, a third (of humanity. The Author) begins to rise, and 
this will continue until the Judgment." 

France will likewise lose the faith again and become en-
snared and entangled in devastating wars, such as revolutions, 
which will put an end to its newly found monarchical form of 
government for all time. 

Sister Bouquillion of St. Louis asserts: 
"The last of the Kings of France, who will be reigning at the 

time of the advent of the Anti-Christ, will perish in battle and 
his corpse will be abandoned and its tomb plundered." 

According to the same Sister, the advent of t h e Anti-Christ 
will not make itself very conspicuous in America. He will, so 
to speak, come like a thief in t h e night: 

"At the time of his arrival nothing in the house (St. Louis 
Convent. The Author) will be changed or altered. Everything 
therein will be found to be in its usual order. The religious ex-
ercises, the usual occupations and the work in t h e sick rooms will 
all be carried out in t h e customary manner, when, suddenly, our 
nuns will perceive that he is t h e master." 

THE S O N OF CORRUPTION A N D R U I N 
From whence will the Anti-Christ come? In what form 

will he m a k e himself perceptible? What will be the nature of 
his activities? Various prophets answer these questions, among 
them St. Brigitte, who at the same time describes the godlessness 
that will prevail during the last days: 



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"At the end of this age (after the Golden Era. The A u t h o r ) , 
the Anti-Christ will be born. For, like the children of God are 
born of a spiritual marriage, so the Anti-Christ will be born from 
an accursed woman, who pretends to have an understanding of 
the spiritual, and of an accursed man through whom, with My 
consent and permission, the devil will fashion his work. Yet 
the time of this Anti-Christ will not be in the time described by 
the brother whose books thou hast seen, but in the time that is 
known to Me, when injustice shall have filled the measure to 
overflowing, and wickedness shall have grown to immeasurable 
proportions. It is then, when t h e Christians love the heresies 
and when the unjust trample spirituality and justice under foot; 
a visible sign that the Anti-Christ will come." 

We glean a more intimate knowledge of the coming of the 
"Son of Corruption and Ruin" from the pages of St. Hildegard's 
famous book "Scivias" (Sci vias Domini—Know the Ways of the 
Lord) where it is written: 

"The Son of Corruption and Ruin will appear and reign only 
for a short time, at the end of the days of the world's duration. 
He will not be Satan himself, but a human being equaling and 
resembling him in atrocious hideousness. His mother, a de-
praved woman, will declare that she is ignorant as to the identity 
of his father, and will maintain that her son was presented to her 
by God in a supernatural manner. She will then also be vener-
ated as a saint by deceived people. 

"The Anti-Christ will win over to himself the rulers, the 
mighty and the wealthy, will bring about the destruction of those 
who do not accept his faith and, finally, will subjugate the entire 
earth. 

"He will l u r e and attract the people to himself by granting 
them complete exemption from the observance of all divine and 
ecclesiastical commandments, by forgiving them their sins and 
requiring of them only their belief in his divinity. He will spurn 
and reject baptism and the gospel. 

"Finally, when he shall have converted all his plans into ac-
tion, he will gather his worshipers about him and tell them that 
he will presently ascend toward heaven. However, at the mo-
ment of the ascension a bolt of lightning will overwhelm and 
annihilate him. The planned ascent into heaven will have been 
prepared by the a r t f u l employment of ingeniuous devices, and 
the moment at which the event was to have taken place, leading 
to his destruction, will produce a cloud that will spread an un-
bearable odor. Through this many people will again come to 
their senses and to understanding." 

"Then," so concludes the Saint, "the people should prepare 



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for the last judgment, the day of which is indeed veiled in secrecy 
and obscurity, but not f a r distant." 

The Revelations of La Salette also proclaim t h a t the Anti-
Christ will be the son of a whore and that he will wage war upon 
the world and perform fictitious miracles. A f t e r they had spoken 
sadly of a new r e t u r n to savage customs and tribulations of the 
last ages, they assure: 

"In this time t h e Anti-Christ will be born of a n u n of Hebraic 
descent, a false virgin, who will have intercourse with the an-
cient serpent, with the master of impurity and putrefaction. His 
father will be a bishop. He will perform false miracles and sub-
sist only on vitiating faith. H e will have brethren, who will be 
children of evil but not incarnate devils like himself. Soon they 
will be at the head of armies, supported by the legions of h e l l " 

THE L A S T J U D G M E N T 
The La Salette revelations t h e n describe terrible eruptions 

of nature. Rome, they predict, will lose the faith and become 
the seat of the Anti-Christ. 

"Up, ye children of light, and fight! For behold, the age of 
ages, the end, the extremity is at hand! The Church passes into 
darkness. The world will be in a state of consternation, perplex-
ity and confusion." 

Elias and Enoch (unsuccessful fighters against the Anti-
Christ—according to St. John. The Author) appear. Bloody 
wars, famines and cholera will exact their toll. The great apos-
tasy is upon the earth. Paganized Rome will disappear. 

"It is time! The sun darkens! Faith alone will live." 
The Anti-Christ falls. H e will be vanquished by the breath 

of St. Michael, t h e Archangel, and he, together with all his min-
ions, will be cast in the eternal abysses of hell. 

"Then fire and water will t o r t u r e and torment the earth and 
devour all the works of man inspired by pride and arrogance." 

Man will again be forced to serve and glorify God until the 
end is near: 

"Yea, the time of happiness and joy will not long continue," 
also warns J o h n of the Cloven Rocks, looking back on the Gol-
den Age, "for already new corruption and ruin draws near. 
There will be signs in the stars, in the heavens and upon the 
earth, for the end draws nigh." 

The above mentioned development of things and events find 
a prophetic confirmation in our "Prophecies of Malachi" which 
conclude, after they have symbolized t h e (presumable) present 
pope and his three great successors: 



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"110—'De Labore Solis.' Translated into English: Of the 
eclipse of the Sim, evidently meaning an eclipse of the Church. 

" I l l — ' G l o r i a Olivae.' Translated into English: Glory of 
the Olive tree." 

Both these symbols seem likewise to indicate the r e t u r n to 
unbelief and infidelity and another growing wave of hatred for 
things religious. For when the sun is eclipsed, t h e enemies of 
light win t h e upper hand, and when the olive tree, the tree of 
sorrow and suffering, is in f u l l bloom, blood and tears will flow. 

And now comes the final papal symbol which is self-explan-
atory in its own weird and gloomy phraseology: 

"112—In persecutione extrema S.R.Ecclesiae sedebit P e t r u s 
II, Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus, quibus 
transactis civitas septicollis diruetur et judex tremendus judi-
cabit populum suum." 

"During the last persecutions of the Holy Roman Church, 
Peter II, the Roman, will rule. He will tend t h e flock during 
many oppressions, and a f t e r their subjugation, the City of the 
Seven Hills will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge 
his people." 

When the sun is darkened, the moon ceases to give her 
light and the stars fall f r o m heaven—the end of the world!