The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-13
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Is coming them. It will be than anything they
have known in their long tragic history. Woe t6
Messlna! The beautiful city will be destroyed.
DEATH devastation, famine pestlence everywhere Tell
the poor people to fly while there Is yet time Let them
leave everything they possess and their lives.
The had by that time great reputation. and
her warning which the day before the disaster.
serviceable in inducing many hundreds to escape
else to make timely preparations to leave tho
doomed
Another prediction which made the vensrated
character throughout Italy related to the with
turkey A party Of young recruits. ordered to join
the colors long before had been decided on visited
the nun to ask her blessing. To them she said:
"A war is coming. see scenes of bloodshed and
agony on burning. sandy plains But 1t will be q
glorious war 1t will be the first glorious war In
which Italy has fought IT will be Of the Cross
against the Crescent and the Cross will be victorious.
Some OF you will return but do not be afraid,
for you will meet death that will be better than
years of sordd misery and labor. Fight bravey and
do not shrink from death. He that tries hardest to
lose his life shall keep It,
"For you young man (here the nun turned her
eyes very handsome young goldier), I see a
splendid military and a long and happy life"
When the war actually broke out her popularity
became enormous. She constantly visited BY
soldiers going to the war and by the mothers wives
and relatives Of those who had gone.
The mothers and wives OF the soldiers usually asked
the nun to pray for her loved ones. She would ask
requested to pray, and after thinking while replied
either bidding her visitor to hope or gently sug
gesng that the soldier would fall glorlously in the
fight for his country and bis faith
1t is declared that she never made single mistake
and thousands Of ready to give evidence
bands and relatives at the post not killed.
The nuns answer to iljudged requests for infor
NATION about the future frequently had character Of
Giro Fltozzi, who particularly forceful and
dramatic in protesting his innocence sent ask her
ne would be .cQutted She sent back this message:
"I you Innocent you will certainly be acquitted
The Nuns mind and supposed powers OF second
sight tended to deal principally with death, war; dis
asters and tragic occurrences. She s credited with
having foretold the Franco-German war OF 1870. the
entry of the Italian army into Rome, which occurred
in the year. the assassination of President Carnot
of France and the Empress Elizabeth of Austria. the
deaths OF the Emperor Frederick Of Germany and OF
King Edward Of England the Titanic disaster and many
other tragedies Of worldwide interest.
II is widely believed that she has foretold further
disasters to the italian royal family as punishment
for keeping the Pope out Of his temporal IN
Rome Much secrecy is maintained upon this point.
but she is said to have sent the following message to
the Dowager Queen Margherta:
"As long the House OF Savoy rules In Rome.
death and disaster will attend it Remove the throne
to another city AND new glory will crown your house.
The nun predicted her own death a week ahead
On the morning cf the day she had fixed, she called
the Abbess and the other to her cell and begged
their forgiveness She passed away at the very hour
She had foretold,
The room In which she died left exactly as she
had used it and sealed up by order OF the Bishop
OF Viterbo. Every article left by the will be
fu preserved for the veneration Of this and future
generations
While not ready 10 accept every feat attributed
her. they inclined believe that possessed
supernormal psychcal powers. Her nervous system
was In an entirely ABNORMAL condition. Many OF her
nervous centres. which would have been used In
normal existence were destroyed by the disease that
afflicted her and it is conceivable the the remaining
centres had developed powers not possessed
By those OF ordinary persons Her sense of hearing
for Instance was acute to ali anos. Incredible degree
Those who take this view think that the disturbance
Of the earth caused by the Msssna earthquake several
hundred miles away may have been pereep.ble to her.
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but 1t is suggested that she learned from tha
actions OF those who came to make inquiries OF her.