The years before such a manifestation there will be a special light from Heaven. Many natural and political events will take place as well, to purify and prepare.
CENTURIES OF CATHOLICS ON THE END OF DAYS
Take it from a Catholic school graduate, the legacy of the end- of-days prophecies is a rich, treasured tradition in the church. Some of the prophecies were biblical in origin, while others were said to be divinely channeled.
Saint Malachy, for example, born in 1094, was the first Irish saint canonized by a pope, Clement III. He reportedly possessed the God-given powers of levitation, healing, clairvoyance, and prophecy. Probably his most famous vision appeared to him during a trance when he saw the entire line of popes from his day until the end of time. He wrote brief descriptions of each of them and presented the writing to Pope Innocent II. The manuscript wasn’t unearthed again until 1950, and it’s been a source of controversy ever since. The last of the popes, according to Saint Malachy’s early twelfth- century prophecy, will be:
- “The Flower of Flowers,” as Saint Malachy named him, thought to be Paul VI (1963-78), whose coat of arms bears three fleurs-de-lis.
- “Of the Half Moon,” thought to be John Paul I, who was born in the diocese of Belluno, which translates to “beautiful moon,” and was elected Pope during a half- moon on August 26, 1978. He died a month later, shortly after a lunar eclipse.
- “The Labor of the Sun,” which would correspond to Pope John Paul II, whose papal reign lasted from 1978 until On the morning he was born in 1920 there was an almost total eclipse of the sun over Europe, obviously including Pope John Paul II’s native Poland. As for the “labor” reference, he was the most widely traveled Pope in the history of the church.
- “The Glory of the Olive,” who would be Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope, elected in 2005. The Order of Saint Benedict, also known as the Olivetans, declared that the penultimate Pope would come from their ranks and would “lead the Catholic Church in its fight against evil.”
- “Peter the Roman.” According to Saint Malachy, the final Pope will be Satan, in the form of a man named Peter, who will inspire great worldwide loyalty and adoration. He’ll be the long-anticipated last Antichrist, who will “feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city [Rome] will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End.”
An Austrian monk named Johannes Friede (1204-57) wrote the following prophecy that continues to be studied and debated more than seven centuries later:
When the great time will come, in which mankind will face its last, hard trial, it will be foreshadowed by striking changes in nature. The alternation between cold and heat will become more intensive, storms will have more catastrophic effects, earthquakes will destroy great regions, and the seas will overflow many lowlands. Not all of it will be the result of natural causes, but mankind will penetrate into the bowels of the earth and will reach into the clouds, gambling with its own existence. Before the powers of destruction will succeed in their design, the universe will be thrown into disorder, and the age of iron will plunge into nothingness. When nights will be filled with more intensive cold and days with heat, a new life will begin in nature. The heat means radiation from the earth, the cold the waning light of the sun. Only a few years more and you will become aware that sunlight has grown perceptibly weaker. When even your artificial light will cease to give service, the great event in the heavens will be near.
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