The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-12
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that the Kingdom OF France Is preueetlne0
of God to defend the Roman church, which
is the sole true church Of Christ. That
kingdom will one day be great among the
Kingdoms of the earth, will embrace all the
limits of the Roman empire /; it will submit
all other kingdoms to the sway; it will
last to the end of time."
The Venerable Bede, in the seventh CEN
fury, commenting this prophecy, sought to
corroborate it by the ancient Sybilline ora
cles. Raban Maurus, abbott of Fulda,
wrote In S22: "Our doctors say that one
OF the kings of France will reign over the
whole OF the Roman empire. This will he
at the end Of time: and he will + be tn, the
adds that, after glorious reign, the great
king will 60 to Jerusalem and lay down his
crown and sceptre on Mount Olivet. 'This
will be the end and contamination of the
holy Roman and Christian empire"
The monk Adson repeated this tradition
came SO popularity known that Tasso cele-
brated it in his "Ottave." Cnsarius, whose
prophecy is found entire in the ''Liber Mi
rabitis," printed in 1924, wrote these re-
markabe words: "After the entire universe,
and particularly France, and in France the
provinces of the north and east, especially
Lorraine and Champagne, shall have fallen
a prey to gigantic miseries and the greatest
tribulations, these provinces will be sue
cored by prince banished in his youth,
who will recover the crown of lilies. This
prince will extend his dominion every
where, and will rule the whole earth. At
the same time there will be great pontiff,
very holy and very perfect. He will have
with him that great king belonging to the
remains of the most sanity blood of the
kings of France. This great king will help
the great Pope to reform the world"
tie more than four centuries shall have
elapsed, the earth will be desolated and
the church reduced to mourning the shep-
herd will be struck and the flock dispersed
but the dew of heaven will fall and the al
tars of Beelzebub will be overturned and
the workers Of iniquity will be scattered
blood of the kings produced by the people
OF Artois (Henry V. is grandson of Charles
X, count of Artois), and he will govern
France with prudence and honor"
THE PROPHECY OF THE LILIES.
This ancient prophecy is preserved by
David Pareus in his commentary on the
Apocalypse, printed at Heidelburg, 1913.
The following is the most striking passage:
Coward the end of time there will appear
great monarch of the nation of the most
illustrious lily; he will have large for
head, high brows, great eyes, aud beaked
nose. He will gather powerful army and
crush all the enemies of his Kingdom. He
will subdue the Turks and the barbarians,
and none will be able to resist him, for the
arm of the Lord will be ever with him and
he will rule the whole earth. His reign
will be called the paradise of good Chris
tians." Through Jacob Bochme and others
it seems evident that the same prophecy
WAS current in Germany, where the era of
lilies OF ilien=eit is we'll known. A similar
remark may be made with regard to Italy.
l need quote only from the Placontian pro-
phecy, so-called because found in o manu-
script of the Placenza library. The fol-
lowing verses are certainly worthy of at
tention, as making distinct mention of the
tricolor:
After ten years shall have rolled by
Tss assss Rss SHAH Sunlliase the t,ieoor
of France in the dust
Hs w aeseSs snas sGT 1s sRs return
The Pope shall be hold holy and JUS, throughout the
EASTERN PROPHECIES.
All the peoples of the East, without ex-
Turks, Syrians, indiana, Cochin Chinese
have traditions dated from the most remote
times perfectly analogous to those of the
West. The Turkish traditions are natural
ly the most curious of these, inasmuch as
their invariable burden is this: The de-
or Franks, and these Franks are
to be led by great king, who will submit
the whole Orient to the religion of the
Christ. These Oriental traditions have al
ways been 80 popularity credited, that the
Arabs and Turks of Jerusalem walled M
the gate by which the prophecy indicated
the great king of the Franks is to enter
when he comes to subjugate the East.
An English chronicler of the twelfth cen
fury relates that the golden gates of STAN
boul bore this inscription "When cometh ,,
the blonde king Of the West, will open of
myself" The Greeks had walled it, and {
the Latins did not pass through it in 1909
but set up an equestrian statue representing
the future great king, with all the minute c
facial features described in the prophecies.
THE GREAT BATTLE OF THE WORLD.
Strange to say, it is in the German pro- c
ohecies that we find the details of the first r
victory which the great king of the French il
8 to win over the Germans. These pro-
,hecies were collected and published at c.
Cologne by tie monks of Woerl The "
POINTS in which they all agree among them Il
elves are: A general war in Europe, pre- D.
eded by political commissions and particu- d
ar wars-the heterodox, East and North Il
ghting against the orthodox West and W
outh. The defnitive victory of the latter
nder the great king, who rises oil at once
nd triumphs in great battle delivered