The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-12
The Year Of Wonders.
" ANCIENT PREDICTIONS CoNCERNlG THE
EVENTS OF 1872.

20 the Editor of the New York World: a
Sir When two months ago, NJ. Vile
nessant, editor of the Paris Figaro, called
On the comte de Chambord at the Schweitz-
ar'Eof, Lucerne, with a view of induci q 8
d, that person to make a fusion with the Or
Ieanists, he was answered by magnificent
wave of the hand alpd a royalty emphatic
denial. "Mine is the white flag forever,
aud the lilies will bloom immortal on my
.x,scutheon proudly" exclaimed the last of
the Bourbons. Really, NJ. Villemessant
sught to have known better than to expose
himself to such rebuff. For once the
Partisan barber was not SO shrewd as his
uanesake of Seville. He must have for
gotten that Henri, comte de Chambord, is
tie man of destiny that to him all the
prophecies of the last 500 years point as
: the great king, and that he cannot compro-
mise his cause by allying it in any way
with the revolution. It must have escaped
him, more especially, that this year is the
isoly year Of fulfllment, and that, at
sength, after forty years of weary waiting,
the grandson of Charles x. is to be reward
ed for his fidelity to principle by entering
on the enjoyment of his crown: Yes, the
year 1879 is to be the glorious year Of the
modern world.
1t is destined to open o new era, or rath
Ger to be the beginning of the end of times.
To be convinced of this we have only to
sum up the incredible marvels of which it
L. A frightful civil war will be waged
between three great parties of Franco
Legitimists, Republicans and Bonapartists
This war will certainly take place within
the year 1872.
2. Paris will be destroyed after terrible
struggles wherein blood will flow in
streams.
3. The comte de Chambord will be de-
clared king of France under the title of
Henry V.
4. There will be civil war in Engl and,
Italy, and other states OF. Europe.
s. The civil war in Europe will be
quelled by Henry V.
6. The Pope will be restored to his
siominions by Henry v.
2. Alsace and Lorraine will be restored
TO France.
g. The French under the command of
Henry w. will march through Europe as
conquerors, and even penetrate into a por-
zion of Asia.
9. Ireland and Poland will be freed {;
England and Germany will return to or
Ehodoxy, and 1slamism win be destroyed.
10. A great battle, called "the battle of
the birch tree" will be fought, in which
Henry v. will annihilate the armies of
Russia and Prussia.
a.. 1t is not ascertained at what precise date
some of the latter events will take place,
out it cannot be very long after the Access
sion of Henry ", because that prince is
the prophets give him multitudinous victo-
Cy, they do not seem to have accorded him
unusual longevity. We shall examine now
a little in detail the grounds on which all
these wonderful events are thus clearly
and boldly foretold. For this purpose it is
not necessary to enter into dry archaeology I
cal researches.
SitE GREAT KING AND THE GREAT PoNTIFF.
Clear vaticiRations about the advent of {
great king and a great PoDe at the end of
the ages are constantly met with in early /
tneai@val literature, and fragmentary ira l
ntl0ns OF the same are to be found among
all European nations, and stranger still, /
among all the people of the far East. f
Ahout tins fact there is no doubt among r
sch"iars. The trouble among continental
tors has been to determine who the great q
king Is and whom lie is TO make his appear t
auce. Now, however, the point seems to I
be happily decided To the satisfaction of all a
patriotic Frenchmsn. He is to be a Gaul \
.r Frank, and behold the proofs. a