"In the days of peace that are to come after the desolation of revolutions and wars,
before the end of the world, the Christians will become so lax in their religion that they
will refuse to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, saying, 'it is an unnecessary
Sacrament'; and when the false prophet, the precursor of the Anti-Christ comes,
all who are not confirmed will apostatise, while those who are confirmed will stand firm
in the faith, and only a few will renounce Christ."
- St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1418)
"Before the triumph of the Church comes God will first take vengeance on the wicked,
especially against the Godless. It will be a new Judgement, the like has never been before
and it will be universal. It will be so terrible that those who outlive it will imagine that they
are the only ones spared. All people will then be good and contrite. This judgement will
come suddenly and be of short duration. Then comes the triumph of the holy Church
and the reign of brotherly love. Happy, indeed, they who live to see those blessed days.
However, before that, evil will have made such progress that it will look like all the devils of
hell were let loose on earth, so terrible will be the persecution of the wicked against the
just, who will have to suffer true martyrdom."
- Father Bernard Maria Clausi, O.F.M. (d. 1849)
"The time of Anti-Christ will be near when the measure of injustice will overflow and when
wickedness has grown to immense proportions, when the Christians love heresies and the
unjust trample underfoot the servants of God."
- St. Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373)
"When sin and righteousness, blasphemy and violence and all kinds of deeds increase, an
apostasy in transgression and uncleanness increase, a great chastisement shall come from
heaven."
"Sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak
wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words."
- The Book of Enoch
"Those who lord it over the parts of the world today and who condone or propagate evil
in national laws, press and schools as well as private lives and who think they can restore
peace to nations and reform society and bring happiness to men, these err greatly.
These gifts they think they can disburse are the property of God alone, Infidels, even
though Christian in name, shall not dispense them lest the recipients say: See, I have
received happiness from so and so or such a nation or such a government or such a form
of government. No, irrespective of the sincerity of any individual involved misery will grow,
war will come. Communism will rule and the Anti-Christ will arrive."
- Chicago Layman
Jesus allegedly speaking : "The offenses that I have received, and those that I shall yet
receive are many, especially woman with her immodest dress, her nakedness, her frivolity
and her evil intentions. Because of all this she shall accomplish the demoralization of the
family, and of mankind. Such shall be the corruption of morality in every social class, and
so great unchastity, that My Eternal Father shall be forced to destroy entire cities
should they not reform after this merciful call. "
"Ordinarily the corruption of the family always has been the origin of the public
calamities, and of the destruction of the Christian Faith: for the first purpose of our
common enemy is the destruction of the Christian family: once he attains this, the infernal
enemy is sure of victory. Therefore the great evil of these times, and of the even worse
than these that shall come, always has been and always shall be to lose the memory and
taste of the supernatural life, living only for earthly and sinful things."
- Mother Maria Rafols (dated 1815, found 1931)
"Through a terrible purgatory Europe will return to the faith."
- Jean Paul Richter (d. 1809)
"An unusual chastisement of the human race will take place towards the end of the world."
- Sr. Mary of Agreda (d. 1665)
"There will be a general defection from the Church near the end of the world, especially
regarding obedience to Her."
- Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349)
Now is it come to pass that the hearts of men and nations are hardened like flint upon the
face of the earth. For this is the last hour of self-righteousness and of the hypocrite;
when men of smug face and smooth tongue gather into their snares all the people of
simple mind, to pour upon them the force of hatred and jealousy and lead them into
slaughter...
And it came to pass that when the last quarter of the last hour arrived...the yellow hordes
in the place of the Rising Sun, and the white hosts of the middle kingdom have joined
hands...And behold, they pour out their terrifying wrath upon the inhabitants of the
island kingdom which is swelled with victory and grown fat upon the commerce of sea and
land.
- Monessen (Pa.) Layman
"Wars are punishments for the sins of the world"
- Jacinta (Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, 1917)
I see a land with a hooked cross (swastika). In this nation there will arise a proud
statesman who will seek to throw Christ from His throne. They will even attack the power
of reproduction in the mother's womb. Many in this land will carry the hooked cross on
their forehead and breast, not suspecting that this is the sign of satan. In these times
many priests and monks will suffer in prison. They will be designated as criminals and most
of their wealth will be confiscated. When the hooked cross glitters on the top of church
steeples, they will be at the zenith of their power.
- Countess Francesca de Brilliante (d. 1935)
In the first age the nobility will flourish; in the second age the Church will rule; in the third
age the law will tyrannize, and thereafter war will destroy everything.
- Old Roman Prophecy
For when they shall say, peace and security: then shall sudden destruction come upon
them, as the pains upon her that is with child and they shall not escape.
- 1 Thes. 5:1-3
After the Great war (WWI) there will be no peace. the people will rise and all will fight
against each other... The rich and nobles will be killed. The world war will not make
people better but much worse.... Tell your children that their children will live to see the
time when the earth will be cleared. God will do away with people because there will be
no charity among men. Religious faith will decline: priests will not be respected: people
will be intent only on eating and drinking: there will be many immensely rich people and
large numbers of paupers: great wealth will not endure long, for the red caps
(Communists?) will come. People will hide in the forests and many will go into exile. After
this civil conflict and general clearing up people will love each other as much as previously
they hated one another.
- Mathew Lang (d. 1820)
Justice shall be outraged, multitudinous evils, great suffering shall prevail, and many
unjust laws will be administered. The time shall come when they will not perform charitable
acts, and truth shall not remain in them. They will plunder the property of the Church,
they will be continually sneering at each other, they will employ themselves at reading and
writing. They will scoff at acts of humanity, and at irreproachable humility; there shall
come times of dark affliction, of scarcity, of sorrow, and of wailing; in the latter ages of the
world's existence...Neither justice nor covenant will be observed by any one people of
the race of Adam; they will become hard-hearted and penurious, and will be devoid of
piety. The clergy will become fosterers, in consequence of the tidings of wretchedness,
(that will reach them); churches shall be held in bondage, (i.e., become private property),
by the all-powerful men of the day. Judges will administer injustice, under the sanction of
powerful, outrageous kings; the common people will adopt false principles, oh, how
lamentable shall be their position! Doctors of science shall have cause to murmur...the
aged will mourn in deep sorrow, on account of the woeful times that shall prevail. Excellent
men shall be steeped in poverty, the people will become inhospitable to their guests, the
voice of the parasite will be more agreeable to them than the melody of the harp touched
by the sage's finger. The changes of the seasons shall product only half their verdure,
the regular festivals of the Church will not be observed; all classes of men shall be filled
with hatred and enmity towards each other...they will live devoid of justice and rectitude,
up from the youth of tender age to the aged. Young women will become unblushing, and
aged people will be of irascible temper; the kine will seldom be productive, as of old: lords
will become murderers...There shall be no standard by which morals may be regulated,
and marriage will be solemnized without witnesses...With the view of winning honour for
themselves, they will hold each other as objects fir ridicule. The possessors of
abundance shall fall through the multiplicity of their falsehoods; covetousness shall take
possession of every glutton, and when satiated, their arrogance will know no bounds.
Neighbors will become treacherous, cold, and false-hearted towards each other. The
gentry will become grudgeful, with respect to their trifling donations; and blood relations
will become cool towards each other; Church livings shall become lay property.
Such is the description of the people who shall live in the ages to come; more unjust and
iniquitous shall be every succeeding race of men. The trees shall not bear the usual
quantity of fruit, fisheries shall become unproductive and the earth shall not yield its usual
abundance. Inclement weather and famine shall come and fishes shall forsake the rivers.
The people oppressed for want of food, shall pine to death. Dreadful storms and
hurricanes shall afflict them. Numberless diseases shall then prevail. Fortifications shall
be build narrow during those times of dreadful danger.
Then a great event shall happen. I fail not to notice it: rectitude shall be its specious
motive, and if ye be not truly holy, a more sorrowful event could not possibly happen.
- St. Columbkille (d. 597)
When the angel had descended I beheld above him a great shining cross in the heavens.
On it hung the Savior from whose Wounds shot brilliant rays over the whole earth.
Those glorious wounds were red… their center gold-yellow… He wore no crown of thorns,
but from all the Wounds of His Head streamed rays. Those from His Hands, Feet, and
Side were fine as hair and shone with rainbow colors; sometimes they were all united and
fell upon villages, cities, and houses throughout the world… I also saw a shining red heart
floating in the air. From one side flowed a current of white light to the Wound of the
Sacred Side, and from the other a second current fell upon the Church in many regions;
its rays attracted numerous souls who, by the Heart and the current of light, entered into
the Side of Jesus. I was told that this was the Heart of Mary. Beside these rays, I saw
from all the Wounds about thirty ladders let down to earth.
— Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
But upon him who chooses to remain in his sins and malice, My justice shall come. And at
an hour that they will not believe, and even if they are living in some great delight, I shall
then snatch them away from earthly life and put them to eternal death in a place where
they will nevermore see My face. Because they loved to do and accomplish their
inordinate and corrupt way rather than to follow My way and My Commandments.
-- St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373)
This Prince of Liars will swear by the Bible and pose as the arm of the Almighty,
chastising a corrupt age. In the beginning he will work by cunning and crime. His spies
will infest the whole world and he will become master of the secrets of the mighty. He
will pay theologians to show that his mission is from God. A war will give him the
opportunity to assume his true role - this war will not be the one he will wage against a
French sovereign but one which will within a fortnight involve the whole world and will
be easily recognised by his mark on his followers.
The Angels will enlighten men and in the third week they will wonder if this is truly the
Antichrist, and realising that it is they will either have to fight to overthrow him or
become his slaves.
Antichrist will be recognised by various tokens: in especial he will massacre the priests,
the monks, the women, the children, and the aged. He will show no mercy, but will pass
torch in hand, like the barbarians, yet invoking Christ! His words of imposture will
resemble those of Christians, but his actions will be those of Nero and of the Roman
persecutors. He will have an eagle in his coat of arms as also his lieutenant, the other
wicked ruler - this latter will be a Christian who will die when cursed by the Pope, who
will be elected at the beginning of the reign of Antichrist.
Priests and monks will no longer be seen hearing confessions and absolving the
combatants: partly because they will be fighting alongside other Christians and partly
because the Pope, having cursed Antichrist, will proclaim that all who fight against him,
if they die, will go to Heaven as martyrs. The Bull, proclaiming these things will
rekindle the courage of the faint-hearted and will cause the death of the monarch
allied with Antichrist. Before Antichrist is overthrown however, more men will have
been killed than were ever within the walls of Rome.
Never will humanity have been faced with such a peril, because the triumph of
Antichrist would be that of the demon, who will have taken possession of his
personality. For it has been said that, twenty centuries after the Incarnation of the
Word the Beast will be incarnate in his turn and will menace the earth with as many
evils as the Incarnation has brought it graces. Towards the year 2000 Antichrist will
be made manifest. His army, will surpass in number anything that can be imagined.
There will be Christians among his cohorts, and there will be Mohammedan and
heathen soldiers among the defenders of the Lamb.
Towards the end of the world, tyrants and hostile mobs will rob the Church and the
clergy of all their possessions and will afflict and martyr them. Those who heap the
most abuse upon them will be held in high esteem.
At that time, the Pope with his cardinals will have to flee Rome in tragic circumstances
to a place where they will be unknown. The Pope will die a cruel death in his exile. The
sufferings of the Church will be much greater than at any previous time in her history.
But God will raise a holy Pope, and the Angels will rejoice. Enlightened by God, this
man will rebuild almost the whole world through his holiness. He will lead everyone to
the true Faith. Everywhere, the fear of God, virtue, and good morals will prevail. He
will lead all erring sheep back to the fold, and there shall be one faith, one law, one rule
of life, and one baptism on earth. All men will love each other and do good, and all
quarrels and wars will cease.
- St. John of the Cleft Rock
The people that will be living around the eighth century (7500 years since the creation),
will acquiesce into corruption of the flesh, and will argue incessantly with no beginning and
no end. Then the eighth Synod will convene….and things will become peaceful for a while,
but soon people’s minds will revert back to the evil ways and perdition. They will not
respect the sanctity of marriage but with dissipation will gravitate towards perdition which
will be worse than during Sodom and Gommorah….committing many more evil works.
The more evil works, the more calamities will befall the people. The people then will be
committing twice as much evil, believing that whoever does evil is good…The more greedy
men become the more sorrow will visit the earth. Love of money will become an insatiable
passion. Greed leads to perdition and destitution leads to salvation, for man is risking
salvation through greed. This curse (greed) will bring great sorrow to the world and
happiness will disappear and will be replaced with discord. Greed will be the throne of the
antichrist. Greed offers to the world lies and people are attracted to lies and become
lawless being abducted by injustice.
Truth has disappeared and everybody believes in lies. Truth is the intimate economy of
Christ and of the teaching of the Gospel, but the lie is the advent of the antichrist and
his kingdom, which wishes to bring global calamity and perdition to the world. Like the
Prophets prophesied the coming of the Lord, likewise over concern will darken the
intellect of men, they will become insensitive to their salvation from their over concerns they
may have. Salvation will be rescued only by those that refrain from partaking in the works
of the antichrist whose works are the cares of this world and the hoarding of treasures.
To day’s men are given over to hoarding treasures and worries and have surrendered
themselves over to perdition through looting, betrayals, lies, homosexuality, gluttony, pride
, hardness of heart and overwhelming avarice….
When the world will become impoverished of the grace of the Holy Spirit, then the world
will be encircled by all types of calamities. Firstly the world will suffer from lack of love,
peace and moderation. Secondly, every country will suffer and there will be great loss of
capital from every country. The Church of Christ will also suffer due to lack of priests
and spiritual shepherds.
After this calamity the unclean one will be born from the belly of filth and will bring forth
signs and beasts with demonic fantasy, pretending to the world that he is meek and
humble at heart but he will be foxy at heart and a wolf at mind. His sustenance will be the
agitation of the people and when ever the people become agitated, he, the antichrist, will
be filled. The agitation of the people due to condemnation, envy, vindictiveness, hatred,
enmity, greed, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, loss of faith arrogance, will be the
food of the antichrist, who will be the head of many countries and have authority over all
the world. He will have power over the feelings of people and all will believe him because
he will be the dictator and emperor and he will bring spiritual loss to the people. Those
that are on the way to perdition will believe that they are being saved.
Then the Gospel will be ignored because the spiritual loss will bring great unhappiness in
the world and signs and terrible events will occur. Man will hunger greatly and will not be
able to be filled, for then he will be eating seven times more than he eats now but he would
still not be satisfied and there will be great sorrows everywhere. Then, whoever was sealed
with the seal of the antichrist, many will die in the streets and the heart of most will
weaken, not being able to bear hunger and faintness, they will revert to eating the dead.
On the seal will be written, “you are mine, yes I am yours, voluntarily I come and not by
force”. Woe to him who bears the seal, for there will be a great agitation in the world. God
seeing the unsettling of the people, will order the sea to become exceedingly warm, so
when the antichrist will sit on his cursed throne, the sea will boil like molten copper and the
earth will be depleted of vegetation and trees from the warmth of the sea and the source
tributaries will dry up and the animals and birds will die from the breath of the sea.
And then the day will be like an hour, the week like a day, the month like a week. Due to
the wickedness of man, the elements will speed up, that the time will end soon, as
proclaimed by God. Then will come the prophets Elijah and just Enoch to proclaim that
whoever is patient and is not marked by the seal of the antichrist, will be saved and will be
accepted by God in paradise eternally, only that he not be marked with the seal, but
instead make the sign of the Cross, for the seal of the Cross frees man from the
torments of hell while the seal of the antichrist delivers him to the torments of hell. And if
they hunger, they should not ask for food but should have patience, for He will send
help from above… The most wicked children of the antichrist are: fornication, adultery,
homosexuality, murder, confiscation, stealing, injustice, lies, torture, the buying and the
selling of man….. so evil will human nature become, that they will use wickedness worse than
the demons…. And the antichrist seeing that human nature became more evil than the
demons, will rejoice greatly….
- St. Nilus
Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day,
Faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the
Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. When
the Church and the world are one, then those days are at hand. Because our Divine
Master placed a barrier between His things and the things of the world.
- St. Anthony of the Desert
We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The first has occurred; the Second
Coming will occur at the end of time. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible,
while the other two are visible...The intermediate coming is a hidden one; in it only the
elect will see the Lord within their own selves...in this middle coming, He is our rest and
consolation.
-St Bernard of Clairvaux
