Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-30
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Most Of our readers have probably
heard OF a prophecy, which has been
current for some years past, of three
days miraculous darkness, similar to one
Of the Egyptian plaques, wherewith God
will appall and chastise guilty and
rebelious world. But we are not sure
whether 1t is generally known that the
authority on which it rests is that of no
less a person than the Venerable Anna
Maria Taigi, an authority which, com
bined with the remarkable fulfillment of
so many of that holy woman other pre-
dictions, cannot but entitle it to more
respect than is usually felt for the reve-
lations Of anonymous individuals, The
following passage from a Roman letter
to the journal de Capuxelles seems
therefore to be worth quoting: A holy
and learned man" the writer says,
who died not long since, and was e
friend of Anna Maria Taigi, has often
told me that the day would come when
the pope, shut up in the Vatican, will
find himself girdled by circle of iron.
He will have lost all hope, and it will be
just then that God will suddenly make q
signal display of his mercy. / remem-
Der also that d, Rafale Natili, learned
from Anna Maria that Plus TX. would
sit twenty-seven years on the Pontifcal
throne On a certain day his holiness
had ordered the manuscripts containing
the revelations OF the venerable woman
to be brought to him by a secretary of
the congregation of rites, and on read
ing therein that his reign would last
twenty-seyen years, he took a pen and
erased the passage, saying, Thati too
much This il possible, but am told
that his holiness has now ordered the
restoration of the text which he had
himself expunged. From the process
of the same venerable Anna Maria has
been extracted the, prophecy Of the
two great phastisements, the one from
heaven, the other from earth, The |
latter, which will consist in wars,
revolutions, and other calamities, being |
terminated, that from heaven will sue
ceed, which, according to another OF her
predictions, is explained as follows;
Great darkness is to prevail over the
whole land during three days and three
nights. II will be so thick that abso-
lutely nothing will be visible, and will be
accompanied by pestilence, which viii
chiefly fall on the enemies Of religion,
although the seourge will rot be con-
fined exclusively TO them. While this
darkness lasts no lightwil shine, no fire
will have any brightness, and only those
who have blessed things (candles) will
be able to see. They are exhorted not
10 endeavor to scan the heavens curiously
during this darkness, for whomsoever
shall 20 and look out at q window or
leave his house for the purpose Of describ-
ing what is passing IN the firmament tl
will be Immediately struck down. The
whole time that this judgment shall
last ought to be employed in prayer,
and above all, in recitipS the holy | I
rosary hoping that amid all this fearful |
trial and humiliation the Lord may
show mercy to us. The director Of this
holy woman said, in August, 1864: - II
is most true that the venerable servant
of God announced the scourge Of three
lays darkness extending over theRholl
earth. While il lasts the windows must
be kept closed, all persons must avoid
at them, and they ought TO
-ecite the holy rosary aud pray. The |
Pensamiento Espauol adds. We are Ii
gnorant Of the value TO be attributed to