Art and Design – Does Heaven Care?

 

Most of us have heard the expression 'art is in the eye of the beholder', I've even expanded this in my novel Brushstrokes of a Gadfly:

“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”

    It is human nature, we can't help but interpret what we see depending on our personal experiences and tastes. Often the artist means to depict one thing, and the viewing public sees something completely different!

(Is it just me, or does a  bowl of spaghetti has more 'art' to it than this?)

I for one cannot help but shake my head at the modern monstrosities creators in the art world are producing, (and I bet most of you out there do too!) 

 

What happened to honest-to-goodness skill and artistry?

Like this? Beautiful! Dashing! Dramatic!

 

(Image: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, 1803)

 

 

Or this? Impressionism is beautiful too!

 

(Monet's famous 'Poppies')

But now we've come to this?  Seriously?

 

 

 Uggggh.

Do modern artists of today truly think what gobbledygook they are producing is really 'beautiful'?

(Picaso's first and last self portraits. 

 I can't help but say he did not think much of himself later in life.)

    Again, it just feels like a scam market at times, galleries and art dealers wowing would-be investors with stories of how 'this is the latest collectible trend', pumping up a market that sells nothing more than splotches on a canvases , a 'hot-air balloon' system which one of my characters in the same novel also notices:

 

“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fueling a worthless market of trash.”

 

    Then, more importantly, they seem to forget to ask the question:  does Heaven care about what we draw, paint or design?

    As Our Lord said Himself noted: “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” (Luke 6:45)

 

     If spoken words display what is in the heart of a person, what does a picture show if indeed one picture is worth a thousand words?

 

I've come across several examples that show yes, Heaven does care.

 

    The first is an account of an artist who came back from the dead to warn the owner of a beautiful but scandalous painting he produced for him:

    “A painter of great skill and otherwise exemplary life had once made a painting not at all conformable to the strict rules Christian modesty. It was one of those paintings which under the pretext of being 'works of art' are found in the best families, and the sight of which causes the loss of so many souls. (…) The artist of whom we speak had allowed himself to be misled to this point by bad example.

    Soon however, renouncing this pernicious style, he confined himself to the production of religious pictures, or at least of those which were perfectly irreproachable. Finally, he was painting a large picture in the convent of the discalced Carmelites, when he was attacked by a mortal malady. Feeling he was about to die, he asked the Prior to allow him to be interred in the church of the monastery, and he bequeathed to the community his earnings, which amounted to a considerable sum of money, charging them to have Masses said for the repose of his soul. He died in pious sentiments, and a few days passed, when a Religious who had stayed in the choir after Matins saw him appear in the midst of flames and sighing piteously.

    “What!” said the religious, “have you to endure such pain, after leading so good a life and dying so holy a death?” “Alas!” replied he, “it is on account of the immodest picture that I painted some years ago. When I appeared before the tribunal of the Sovereign Judge, a crowd of accusers came to give evidence against me. They declared that they had been excited to improper thoughts and evil desires by a picture, the work of my hand. In consequence of those bad thoughts some were in Purgatory, others in Hell. The latter cried for vengeance, saying that, having been the cause of their eternal perdition, I deserved at least the same punishment. Then the Blessed Virgin and the saints whom I had glorified by my pictures took up my defense. They represented to the Judge that that unfortunate painting had been the work of youth, and of which I had repented that I had repaired it afterwards by religious objects which had been a source of edification to souls.”

    “In consideration of these and other reasons, the Sovereign Judge declared that, on account of my repentance and my good works, I should be exempt from damnation but at the same time, He condemned me to these flames (Purgatory) until that picture should be burned, so that it could no longer scandalize anyone.”

    Then the poor sufferer implored the Religious to take measures to have the painting destroyed. “I beg of you,” he added, “go in my name to such a person, proprietor of the picture; tell him in what a condition I am for having yielded to his entreaties to paint it, and conjure him to make a sacrifice of it. If he refuses, woe to him! To prove that this is not an illusion, and to punish him for his own fault, tell him that before long he will lose his two children. Should he refuse to obey Him Who has created us both, he will pay for it by a premature death.”

    The religious delayed not to do what the poor soul asked of him, and went to the owner of the picture. The latter, on hearing these things seized the painting and cast it into the fire. Nevertheless, according to the words of the deceased, he lost his two children in less than a month. The remainder of his days he passed in penance, for having ordered and kept that immodest picture in his house.” (Source “Purgatory: Explained by the Lives and Legends of theSaints” by Fr. F.X. Schouppe, original edition 1893, reprint TAN,1986.)

    Here is one example Heaven will judge on artist on the damage their work will do – for their art could be a means causing the edification and salvation of many, or, bring about grave scandal and the eternal loss of souls.

Immodesty is a big no-no.

    I found another example of the danger of immodesty in a picture, this time with regards to sacred art, with Satan making an attempt to trip up and trap a holy priest, the humble Pére Lamy (1853-1931), who received many visits from Our Lord, Our Lady and the Angels.   (Yes, he is an approved mystic.)

    As usual with mystics whose spiritual gifts are extraordinary like his were, which included the discernment of souls, his fame as a visionary quickly spread.  Naturally people asked him what Our Lady and Our Lord looked like. Not many people get to see Christ and His Mother! In some instances, Pére Lamy tried to give examples of what Our Lady was like, no statue or painting made by human hands was good enough, but he indicated a couple of statues he thought looked the closest to her manner of bearing and expression.

    One day in 1915, however, he was brought to see a newly built church, Saint Michel de Batignolles in Paris, where they were pleased to show off a sculpture of the Madonna and Child that apparently had won the prestigious 'Prix de Rome'.  

     While everyone was proud of the prize-winning sculpture and the purity of the marble used, Pére Lamy had a different reaction, especially with the depiction of the Christ Child Who was depicted "completely naked", according to the words of Père Lamy, Our Lady holding the Child with a mere piece of cloth, but only as an artistic effect, not a proper covering.  Père Lamy said he found this 'disconcerting' and even made a furious glare at it.

    To confirm his feelings, The Madonna appeared to him right then holding the Christ Child in front of the statue, and, he noted with satisfaction the Child was fully and properly dressed in his little brown wool tunic. Then Our Lady warned Père Lamy:

 “Take care, Lucifer is after you like a dog tracking down a hare.”

    He noted this was her way of showing her displeasure with the statue. She then warned him to be very careful of his words regarding it, no doubt this was due to the fact that any indication of an approval coming from him would imply the statue was accurate when it in fact displeased Our Lady, and of course, and would end up giving bad example. So, he carefully replied that the statue “did not answer the great dignity of the Mother of God and that the statue did not please me.”

 

  There you have it.  

 Nakedness in art for "art's sake" is not approved of by Heaven.

    Fr. F.X. Schouppe explains what true art is when giving his example of the artist who came back from Purgatory to demand his immodest picture be burned:

    “True art is an inspiration from Heaven, which elevates the soul to God; profane art, which appeals to the senses only, which presents to the eye nothing but the beauties of the flesh and blood, is but an inspiration of the evil spirit; his works, brilliant though they may be, are not works of art, and the name is falsely attributed to them. They are the infamous productions of a corrupt imagination.” (Purgatory: Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints)

  As we have seen with Satan attempting to trip up Pére Lamy, this point is indeed the case.

    But, what is even more unnerving, I've hunted down a picture of the statue that caused Our Lady's displeasure. According to the person telling this story they heard from Père Lamy, the statue was carved c. 1920 by Arthur-Joseph Gueniot (1866 – 1951).

 

The statue does not look immodest to our standards at all!

("Mater Dei" in Saint Michel des Batignolles by Arthur-Joseph Gueniot.)

    Our Lady looks perfectly clothed, her neckline does not seem open or that low at all to our eyes, and while the Christ Child is wrapped in a cloth, He is not 'completely' nude from the waist down like many other pieces as the text seem to have suggested!

Oh. 

If this piece displeased Our Lady, what does Heaven consider to be improper 'nudity'?

The answer can be found in the book of Genesis.

    When Adam and Eve fell, already they had become blinded by their sin and did not even know how to fully clothe themselves. They took fig leaves and made simple aprons, but God let them know this was not enough – He had to make them tunics of skins after they confessed their misdeed.

    A tunic or robe-like garment covers the whole upper half of the body, over the shoulders, and slightly below the knees. Having an uncovered chest and torso was still considered nakedness by God. But also observe: to make the skin-tunics, something had to be sacrificed and shed its blood to make them proper garments, a symbol of the Great Sacrifice the Lamb of God would offer to cover the whole human race with His Precious Redemptive Blood.   Those re-clothed in grace with the Blood of the Lamb at the end of time are given full white robes as we see in the Apocalypse.  Pére Lamy noted the Christ Child in the vision with Our Lady was fully dressed in a tunic when He appeared

Wow, it makes you take stock of how bad most of our Renaissance and Classical art must look like to Heaven!

Père Lamy also noted the Mother of God's “tastes are very artistic”.

  

    In one instance he tells the story of a little plaster statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal he once had as a child and that he had daubed up with his paints.   He said the thought he was doing something wonderful in painting it, but agreed with the wisdom of hindsight gained from his adult years that his childish attempt at statue-painting was a real mess!

    He had painted her white, apparently he had painted her hands and face white, her cloak blue, and her veil white, but then gave her a yellow girdle, which clashed with the whole white and blue ensemble. However, the statue was lost when the family home burned down. One day in a vision Our Lady commented on the statue he had painted when a child, declaring, “He thought to give me a yellow girdle: it was very very ugly!” She then laughed heartily, and said “but I liked the intention.”

Yes, Père Lamy noted Our Lady does laugh at times!

    

    And, we see the Queen of Heaven and Earth, the Mother of Wisdom and Truth, has no qualms in saying when something is ugly. We can hazard a guess she still liked the messy statue because she could see he had painted it with love even if it had not been aesthetically perfect, just like any charitable mother would who goes ahead and tapes up their child's finger painting on the front of the refrigerator as though it belonged in a gallery.  Those childish gifts are well meant, splotchy though they may be!

    Pére Lamy confirmed this again when he noted Our Lady does not find many of her statues good to look at, but still, she loves them for they “are signs of the affection people have for her”, and therefore the ugliness of the statues does not hinder her from using them as channels of grace. (Source for the information and quotes on Père Lamy: “Père Lamy: 1855-1931”, by Comte Paul Biver, TAN,1973.)

    In all, Heaven will make concessions for some 'ugly' pieces of art, but we have to ask: if Heaven will punish those artists who create scandalous pictures, and Satan could attempt to trap a very holy priest with an immodest statue, not to mention Our Lady has very high artistic tastes, then what does Heaven think of modern art?

The Holy Souls from Purgatory give the answer to this.

    Maria Simma (1915 -2004) from Sonntag, Austria, had been chosen as a victim soul to receive visits from the Holy Souls in Purgatory and aid their release. (Note: her case is still under investigation by the Church, but there has been no negative rulings on her as yet, and, she was permitted to speak of her experiences by her local bishop. I personally have not seen anything contrary to Church teachings in her visions.)

    According to the book “My Personal Experiences with the Poor Souls” (Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago,1979, p. 61), she one day received a message from the Blessed Mother via the visit of a Holy Soul requesting that a chapel be built in Sonntag. Maria's spiritual director agreed with the request, because he realized the exact spot where the chapel to be built according to the Holy Soul's directions once had a wayside shrine there long ago dedicated to the Blessed Mother, but it was removed during roadworks. The villagers had promised to put it back up, but the promise was forgotten, and as the years passed, only the older generations barely remembered it. So, Our Lady obviously wanted the promise kept, but now wanted a chapel big enough to where Mass could be said.

    When the chapel was finished, a new request came from the Blessed Mother via the visit of a Holy Soul: Our Lady desired a picture be painted and hung in the chapel depicting her as “Mother of Mercy for the Poor Souls”, but, the request also demanded “it should be a picture of natural beauty, not a contorted work of modern art.”

Wow.

 Heaven considers modern art a 'contortion', with no 'natural beauty'.

Basically, that it is twisted and therefore grotesque!

    Maria Simma would later give another example, I believe it is in the book 'Get Us Out of Here!”, by Niki Eltz. Unfortunately I only borrowed that copy and gave it back to its owner, so I don't have it on hand and will have to paraphrase what I recall. When asked about art and what the Holy Souls had to say about modern art, I believe it was about sacred art, she said the Holy Souls have told her Heaven does not approve of it as it is a mockery of what it represents.

Uh oh. Modern 'sacred art' of today therefore is more than just a mere fashion.

Heaven calls out modern “sacred art” for what it is -- a contorted, twisted, mocking sacrilege.

Heaven has also extended its disapproval to modern church designs.

    In the prophecies of the mystic Ven. Sister Domenica of Paradise (1473-1553) Our Lord warned that nearer the end of time a dark period was coming when the faith would drastically wane, one of the signs would be when church buildings would resemble caverns:

    “My bride, pray and weep for My faithful, there will come a time when My faith, declining, will be missed in many and few (faithful) will remain, when souls fall into the hands of My enemy for the scarcity and lack of the Word God, (i.e. when the Word of God will not be taught or preached, the word 'lack' also means it may not be preached properly as it should) and when the temples of the Christians will resemble caverns than churches, then the night of blindness will reign, and the day and the sun of cognisance will be extinguished, and amid so much darkness few will know those who can exercise virtue, and employ themselves in the worship of My faith (...)” (For more info, click here.)

    Therefore, modern art and architecture are displaying the corrupt nature of the times and the loss of faith.

Interesting how everything seemed to take a nose-dive after Vatican II. By their fruits, you will know them.

All one has to look at is the infamous “church” that has been dubbed “Our Lady of Minas Morgul” built in the 1960s. 

 

 (Real name: "St. Francis de Sales", Muskegon, Michigan, USA)

   

     The dark joke is not far off: I can't help but imagine a hoard of Sauron's orcs from Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' conducting a black mass here.   Yikes.

The times are growing dark indeed.

    Fr. Schouppe observed: “If such is the consequence of an immodest picture, what then, will be the punishment of the still more disastrous scandals resulting from bad books, bad papers, bad schools, and bad conversations?”

The loss of Faith.

    Being a writer today is a daunting occupation knowing what you do may affect the eternal condition of a reader's soul … but that is for another post!

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To Love the Promised Great Monarch – A Sign of Predestination

For centuries several saints and mystics of the Catholic church have foretold that the world would enter a period of darkness, evil would abound, and that the practise of the true Faith would be eclipsed when an extravagant anti-church would arise had supplant for a time all the ancient traditions of the Catholic church as they were once practised.

However they also foretold this period of darkness would be put to flight by the arrival of a Great Catholic Monarch together with an Angelic Pontiff who would arrive amidst wars and tribulations to restore Christendom and establish an Age of Peace that would last for about 30 to 40 years. The Great Monarch will be crowned the Last Holy Roman Emperor and restore the downtrodden monarchies of Europe, republics will be wiped out. Heresies would disappear, mass conversions will take place, all Christians would be untied in the One True Church led by the Angelic Pontiff. It will be the greatest period the Catholic Church will experience before the final persecutions of the Antichrist followed by the Second Coming of Christ.  (Image: Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.)

In fact, a few mystics have revealed that this plan of restoring the earth is so pleasing to God, that one could determine whether or not a person was in complete union with God's Will, and therefore a predestined soul, or a reprobate determined to follow Satan's path on how they accepted this plan or laughed it to scorn.

St. Francis of Paola the Wonder Worker (1416-1507) was adamant on this subject:

"I know that unbelieving and reprobate persons will scoff at my letters and will reject them (his prophecies of the Great Monarch) ; but they will be received by those Catholic souls who aspire to the possession of heaven. These letters shall infuse such sweetness of divine love in their hearts that they will be delighted in perusing them often and in taking copies of them because such is the will of the Most High. In these letters it will be found out who belongs to Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ and who does not, who is a predestinate or a reprobate. Much will this be known through the holy sign of the living God. He shall be a Saint of God who will take it, love it, and wear it.”

Below is St. Paola's lenghty letter to the Lord of Monalto:

“From your Lordship (i.e., addressing Simeon de Limena, Lord of Monalto) shall be born

the great leader of the holy militia of the Holy Spirit shall overcome the world, and shall possess the

earth so completely that no king or lord shall be able to exist, except that he belongs to the sacred

host of the Holy Ghost. These devout men shall wear on their breasts, and much more within their hearts, the sign of the living God, namely, the Cross. (…)

The first members of this holy order shall be natives of the city where iniquity, vice and sin abound. However, they shall be converted from evil to good; from rebels against God they shall become most fervent and most faithful in His divine service. That city shall be cherished by God and by the Great Monarch, the elect and the beloved of the Most High Lord. For the sake of that place all holy souls who have done penance in it shall pray in the sight of God for that city and its inhabitants. When the time shall come of the immense and most right justice of the Holy Spirit, His Divine Majesty wills that such city become converted to God, and that many of its citizens follow the great prince of the holy army. The first person that will openly wear the sign of the living God shall belong to that city, because he will through a letter be commanded by a holy hermit to have it impressed upon his heart and to wear it externally on his breast. (…)

That man will begin to meditate on the secrets of God, about the long visitation which the Holy Spirit will make and the dominion that he will exercise over the world through the holy militia. O! happy man, who shall receive from the Most High the greatest privileges! He will interpret the hidden secrets of the Holy Ghost, and he shall often excite the admiration of men by his revealed knowledge of the internal secrets of their hearts. Rejoice, my Lord, because that Prince above other princes, and King over other kings, will hold you in the greatest veneration, and after having been crowned with three most admirable crowns, will exalt that city, will declare it free, and the seat of the Empire, and it shall become one of the first cities in the world. (…)

 You and your consort desire to have children: you shall have them.  (Addressed to Lord Monalto) Your holy offspring shall be admired upon earth. Among your descendants there will be one who shall be like the sun amidst the stars; He shall be a first-born son; in his childhood he will be like a saint; in his youth, a great sinner; then he will be converted entirely to God and will do great penance; his sins will be forgiven him, and he will become a great saint. (…)

He shall be a great captain and prince of holy men, who shall be called "the holy Cross-bearers of Jesus Christ," with whom he shall destroy the Mahometan (Muslim) sect and the rest of the infidels. He shall annihilate all the heresies and tyrannies of the world. He shall reform the Church of God by means of his followers, who shall be the best men upon earth in holiness, in arms, in science, and in every virtue, because such is the will of the Most High. They shall obtain the dominion of the whole world, both temporal and spiritual, and they shall support the Church of God until the end of time. (…)

God almighty shall exalt a very poor man of the blood of Emperor Constantine, son of St. Helena, and of the seed of Pepin, (i.e, A French King) who shall on his breast wear a red Cross. Through the power of the Most High he shall confound the tyrants, the heretics, and infidels. He will gather a grand army, and the angels shall fight for them; they shall kill all God's enemies. (…)

From the beginning of the world, after the creation of man, and to the end of human generations, there have been and there shall be seen wonderful events upon the earth. Four hundred years shall not pass when his Divine Majesty shall visit the world with a new religious order much needed, which shall effect more good among men than all other religious institutions combined. This religious order shall be the last and the best in the Church; it shall proceed with arms, with prayer, and with hospitality. Woe to tyrants, to heretics, and to infidels, to whom no pity shall be shown, because such is the will of the most high! An infinite number of wicked men shall perish through the hands of the Cross-bearers, the true servants of Jesus Christ. They shall act like good husbandmen when they extirpate noxious weeds and prickly thistles from the wheat field. Those holy servants of God shall purify the earth with the deaths of innumerable wicked men. The head and captain of these holy servants of God shall be one of your posterity and he shall be the great reformer of the Church of God. (…)

 

 How spiritually blind are those persons who, having no thought about things of God, fix their end in earthly objects. Wretched men! by far worse than the very beasts which are guided by their sense, because they cannot reason, they become brutalized. Hence they shall ever be in confusion. Let, therefore, the princes of this world be prepared for the greatest scourges to fall upon them. But from whom? First from heretics and infidels, then from the holy and most faithful Cross-bearers elected by the Most High, who, not succeeding in converting the heretics with science, shall have to make vigorous use of their arms. Many cities and villages shall be in ruins, with the deaths of an innumerable quantity of bad and good men. The infidels also shall fight against Christians and heretics, sacking, destroying, and killing the largest portion of Christians. Lastly, the army, styled "of the Church," namely, the holy Cross-bearers, shall move, not against Christians or Christianity, but against those infidels in pagan countries, and they shall conquer all those kingdoms with the death of a very great number of infidels. After this they shall turn their victorious arms against bad Christians, and destroy all the rebels against Jesus Christ. These holy Cross-bearers shall reign and dominate holily over the world until the end of time... But when shall this take place? When crosses with the stigmas shall be seen, and the crucifix shall be carried as the standard. (…)

  The time is coming when His Divine Majesty will visit the world with a new religious order of holy Cross Bearers, who will carry a crucifix, or the image of our crucified Lord, lifted up on the principal standard in view of all. This standard will be admired by all good Catholics; but at the beginning it will be derided by bad Christians and by infidels. Their sneers shall, however, be changed into mourning when they shall witness the wonderful victories achieved through it against tyrants, heretics, and infidels. Many wicked men and obstinate rebels against God shall perish; their souls will be plunged into Hell. The punishment shall fall upon all those transgressors of the Divine

commandments who with new and false doctrines will attempt to corrupt mankind and turn men

against the ministers of God’s worship. The same chastisement is due for all obstinate sinners, but

not to those who sin through weakness because these being converted doing penance and amending the conduct of their life shall find the divine mercy of the Most High full of kindness towards them. O holy Cross Bearers of the Most High Lord, how very pleasing you will be to the great God much more than the children of Israel! God will through your instrumentality work more wonderful prodigies than he has ever done before with any nation. You shall destroy the sect of Mahomet (Islam) and all infidels of every kind and and of every sect. You shall put an end to all the heresies of the world by extinguishing all tyrants. You will remove every cause of complaint by establishing a universal peace which shall last until the end of time. You will work the sanctification of mankind. O Holy Men: People blessed of the Most Holy Trinity! Your victorious founder shall triumph over the world, the flesh and the Devil. (…)

One of your posterity shall achieve greater deeds and work greater wonders than your lordship (your Lordship: Simeon de Limena, Lord of Monalto). That man (the leader of the Crucifers) will be a great sinner in his youth, but like St. Paul he will be drawn and converted to God. He shall be the founder of a new religious order different from all the others. He shall divide it into three classes, namely: (1) Military knights, (2) Solitary priests, (3) most pious hospitalliers. This shall be the last religious order of the Church, and it will do more good for our holy religion than all other religious institutes. By force of arms he shall take possession of a great kingdom. He shall destroy the sect of Mahomet, extirpate all tyrants and heresies. He shall bring the world to a holy mode of life. There will be one fold and one shepherd. He shall reign until the end of time. On the whole, in the whole earth there shall be only twelve kings, one emperor, one pope. Rich gentlemen shall be few, but all saints. (…)

 May Jesus Christ be praised and blessed for He has vouched to grant to me a poor unworthy sinner the spirit of prophecy not in an obscure way as to His other servants, but has enabled me to write and to speak in a most clear manner. I know that unbelieving and reprobate persons will scoff at my letters and will reject them; but they will be received by those catholic souls who aspire to the possession of heaven. These letters shall infuse such sweetness of divine love in their hearts that they will be delighted in perusing them often and in taking copies of them because such is the will of the Most High. In these letters it will be found out who belongs to our blessed Lord Jesus Christ and who does not, who is a predestinate or a reprobate. Much better will this be known through the holy sign of the living God. He shall be a saint of God who will take it, love it and wear it.” (Rev R. Gerald. Culleton, The Prophets and Our Times, Tan books and Publishers, 1941. pp. 157-162)

Some doubt the authenticity of the letter, however, the prophecies attributed to St. Paola align completely with the prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny, a stigmatist and prophetic mystic approved by her local bishop in 1875. (Image right, Marie-Julie Jahenny)

She foretold that the Great Monarch, Henri V, Henry of the Cross, the one then called the 'Miracle Child', would deliver France in the midst of wars. He would enter France under the Sign of the Cross with his armies, it would be the Sign of Victory. Throughout the kingdom the famous phrase given to Emperor Constantine would be proclaimed once again: "In hoc signo vinces" A great Sanctuary to the Cross will be established at La Fraudais exactly where her cottage stands, which will be visited by the King. He will give thanks to God there for all her prophecies that have foretold his reign, which sounds very similar to St. Paola's predictions of the Militant Red Cross Cruciferi order that will be founded by the Great Monarch. (Image left: Emperor Constantine and the Vision of the Cross.)

Most important, she had a telling version about this sign of predestination in accepting God's plan of restoring the monarchy through the Great Monarch.

During an ecstasy dated December 26, 1877, Marie-Julie Jahenny saw that Satan hated God's plan to restore the monarchy of France through the promised Great Monarch. Satan admitted in so many words that the Great Monarch would put an end to much of his evil on earth for he raged at Marie-Julie, "It is necessary to crush the lily!”

The 'lily' represents the fleur de lis of France, the symbol of the French monarchy, and is also referred to a symbol of the Great Monarch in many of her visions. (Image: Royal Coat of Arms of the Fleur de Lis, from a ceilling at Versailles).

However, Marie-Julie Jahenny was not afraid of the demon's threats against the Great Monarch but rejoiced in that she was not like the Evil One, exclaiming: "Satan does not love the King. Ah! I am not like him (Satan) because I love him! (The Great Monarch.)”

Therefore, those who refuse to be like Satan will love the Great Monarch and will rejoice in the restoration of the monarchical regime.

In fact, April 20, 1874, Heaven warned Marie-Julie that democracy was from Hell itself:

“The Blessed Virgin told me we have to pray much to deflect the evils that must fall upon France. It will unfortunately atone for two centuries of political and social system of atheism, two centuries of a non-Christian régime. Democracy is indeed the Luciferian régime par excellence. The sole régime of a divine origin never comes from below, but only from above. Without making a pun, let us say in its very name, recognizes that it is the devil that guides demo-cracy: the devil is the master.” (Image: France under the Masonic Eye of democracy after the Revolution).

Marie-Julie then announced the return of the white flag, the fleur de ly. That is, the Royal Standard of the Kings of France. The fleur de lys was the royal symbol, and also a symbol of purity. (Image left: the Royal Standard of the French Kings. White Flag with Fleur de Lis)

Of interest, allegedly the Holy Souls of Purgatory also gave a similar message to the mystic Maria Simma of Austria. They told her democracy was not a God-given right. (Get Us Out of Here! An Interview with Maria Simma by Nicky Eltz.)

Sr. Marie Lataste (1822-1847) a mystic in France was told by Our Lord that His royal friendship lies on France:

 Our Lord: "The first king, the first sovereign, of France is I Myself. I am the Lord of all peoples, nations, kingdoms, empires, dominions; but I am specially the Master of France. I give her prosperity, greatness, power, above all other nations, when she is faithful in hearkening to My voice. I raise her princes above all other princes of the earth when they are faithful in hearkening to My voice. I have chosen France, to give her to My Church as her daughter of predilection. (...)    Well, My daughter, I say it to the honour and the glory of your country, for ages France defended and protected My Church ; she was My instrument, full of life, the visible and indestructible bulwark which I gave to My Church to protect her against her enemies. From the height of Heaven I protected her, herself, her kings, and their subjects"

Our Lord continues, saying  France refused God's choice for a king and picked evil rulers of her own choosing.  However, Our Lord promised that what has been rejected will one day be accepted again - an indication that Christ will restore the abosolute monarchy in France and that it will fulfill its mission -- to defend the Church.  (See Sr. Marie Lataste's revelations about France, click here.)

No wonder Satan hates 'The Lilly', the Great Monarch of France!

As requested by Heaven through Marie-Julie Jahenny, please pray for the coming of the Great Monarch and the restoration of the throne of France.  As we can see, the Church and the True Faith cannot be restored without them and the promised Angelic Pontiff.

Find out more: 

The Great Catholic Monarch and 'Angelic' Pontiff Prophecies: A general timeline of what we can expect and includes the prophecies of the saints, mystics, doctors of the Church, approved apparitions and generally accepted sources.  I'm also finding out which prophecies are fake.  (Blog is a work in progress, check back for new updates.)

"We Are Warned: The Prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny": Free e-book. Contains all the Great Monarch prophecies of the other mystics in addition to Marie-Julie Jahenny's visions.

“Marie-Julie of the Crucifix: Stigmatist and Prophet”: Free e-book, a concise version. Also explores the identity of the 'Miracle Child', Henri V of the Cross, the Great Monarch.

“Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies”, Free e-book: explores how JRR Tolkien may have been influenced by these prophecies. Also includes sections why modern democracy is abhorrent to God, and why the French monarchy is important.

"Marie-Julie Jahenny: Prophecies for Our Times--a Blog"  - you can also read her propheches here. (Texts can be explored through searchable tags, also some posts contain history and background info not found in the book "We Are Warned".  Ths too is a work in progress, so check back for updates.)

 

Conversation with St. Michael, Prince of the Angels

As we approach the Feast of St. Michael, (September 29) I would like to share one beautiful apparition of the great Archangel to the Church approved mystic and stigmatic, Marie-Julie Jahenny, also known as the 'Breton Stigmatist'.  St. Michael often appeared to her, warning the faithful through her of the terrible punishments about to befall the earth due to sin, but in one remarkable and touching conversation the Archangel revealed some of his duties as Prince of the Angels, also confirming some of his roles that had generally been accepted in tradition.

Below is an excerpt of a long personal tête-à-tête of the Archangel Michael with Marie-Julie dated September 29, 1880.  Excerpt taken from the free E-book  We Are Warned: The Prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny      (You can also download a copy from Goodreads  Here.)

(Image: The Great Saint Michael by Raphael)

 

For more concise information about Marie-Julie Jahenny and her revelations, see also:

Marie-Julie Jahenny, The Breton Stigmatist: Her Life and Prophecies 

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