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Annuntio
vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!
Qui
sibi nomen imposuit: Franciscum, 'Ingis
ardens'
Nostradamus, Quatrain 2.97
~
Romain Pontife garde de t'approcher,
De la cité que deux fleuves arrouse,
Ton sang viendras aupres de là cracher,
Toi & les tiens quand fleurira la Rose.
Roman Pontiff beware of approaching,
The city that two rivers arrouse,
Your blood will come from the spitting,
You and yours when the Rose will flourish.
The Third Secret of Fatima (excerpt)
~
And we saw in an immense light ... a Bishop
dressed in White. We had the impression that it was the
Holy Father. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women
Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which
there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a
cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy
Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half
trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and
sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on
his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his
knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a
group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him,
and in the same way there died one after another the
other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and
various lay people of different ranks and positions.
Updated:
March 6, 2017 (6:46 AM ET).
LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN: This is now a special page for current
papal news speculation in the light of prophecy. For a complete
background in papal prophecies and Pope Francis himself please
refer back to Pope Francis and the Rose Prophecy. Thank you.
GIANT
CROSS OF FATIMA PROPHECY ERECTED ON HILL IN NORTHERN IRAQ?
A group of Christians has erected a massive cross outside
the city of Mosul on land recently liberated from
domination by the Islamic State terror group.
Last
weekend, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad,
Louis Raphael Sako, visited the site and blessed the new
cross in the village of Telekuf-Tesqopa, 17 miles from
Mosul.
A large group of Christian faithful accompanied the
archbishop to a hill on the outskirts of the city where
he blessed the enormous cross as the people set off
fireworks and cheered, “Victory! Victory! Victory!
For those who chose the faith and those who return!”
This cross will announce to the world “that this is
our land, we were born here and we will die here,”
Archbishop Sako said. “Our ancestors were buried in
this pure land and we are going to remain to preserve
them with all our might and for future generations.”
“It is a sincere and great call to return and
rebuild. We are joined to our land, to our future on the
land of our ancestors. Here we can be proud of our
history and here we can be granted all our rights,”
Sako said.
The placement of crosses has become a recurring gesture
since the Iraqi Army began the offensive to retake the
city of Mosul, the stronghold of the Islamic State in
Iraq.
As
villages have been liberated across the Nineveh Plain,
Christians have made wooden crosses and placed them on
the roofs of churches and homes.
Prior to the blessing ceremony, Archbishop Sako also
celebrated the first Mass after two and a half years in
Saint George Church, which was attended by authorities
and officials of the region.
In his homily at Mass, Sako said that this event is
“the first spark of light shining in all the cities
of the Nineveh Plain since the darkness of ISIS, which
lasted nearly two and a half years.”
“This is our land and this is our home,” Sako
told the congregation, noting that the return of the
faithful to the region demonstrates to the world that the
forces of darkness, as terrible as they are, cannot
prevail over Christ’s Church, which is built upon
rock.
A year ago, the Patriarch published an Easter message in
which he implored Christians not to leave Iraq, despite
the hardships. Christians must “stay united in this
land of ours, in which we were born, where we have lived
for 1400 years,” he said.
In late
2014, Sako called the systematic persecution of
Christians in Iraq by the Islamic State “a real
genocide”and called for decisive steps to put
pressure on decision-makers at home and abroad to ensure
a free, safe life for all in Iraq.
"There
were about 1 million Christians in Iraq and more than
half of them have been displaced. Only 400,000 are left
while displacement is still rising,” Sako said at
the time.
March 6,
2017: Could this be the cross, now in the "land
between two rivers?" The Fatima prophecy states the
following about the cross:
"... a steep
mountain, at the top of which there was a big Crossof rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark;
before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city
half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted
with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he
met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his
knees at the foot of the big Cross he
was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at
him, and in the same way there died one after another the other
Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people
of different ranks and positions."
It will be a giant
cross, a big cross ... but it will resemble
cork wood, "bark from a cork tree." It will not have to
be made of cork, but it will have to look like it is made from
such a tree. That eliminates many crosses on hills and mountains
the world over, unless ... the cork-wood reference is intended to
be symbolic. But why?
IS
POPE FRANCIS SOON TO BE THREATENED BY A GREAT SCHISM?
Nostradamus, Quatrain 5.46 ~
Par
chapeaux rouges querelles & nouveaux schismes,
Quand on aura esleu le Sabinois:
On produira contre lui grans sophismes,
Et sera Rome lesse par Albanois.
By
red hats & quarrels, new schisms
When the Sabine will have been elected:
They will produce great sophism against him,
And Rome will be injured by Alba
(Scotland or Alba near Piedmont in NW Italy).
There were indeed
quarrels and new schisms, little schisms, when Pope
Francis was elected. Most memorable of these was the
resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, head of
the Scottish Catholic Church, during a sex scandal.
However, now something much bigger may be taking shape, a
great sophism:
Rome (CNN)
— Posters of a stern-looking Pope
Francis appeared on walls around Rome on Saturday,
condemning his actions against some conservative
Catholics and asking, "Where is your mercy?"
Written in local Roman dialect, the posters
lamented that the Pope had "removed priests;
decapitated the Knights of Malta" and "ignored
Cardinals," echoing some of the major complaints
some conservative Catholics have about Pope Francis'
recent decisions. The posters were not
signed by any group.
On the day the posters appeared the Pope finalized a
months-long battle with the Knights of Malta by
appointing a Special Delegate from the Vatican and giving
him "all necessary powers" to help renew the
traditional Catholic Order.
The Knights of Malta have a unique "sovereign"
standing within the Catholic Church, similar to that of a
separate country, and they had contested the legality of
the Pope's intervention into their order.
Last month the Pope forced the resignation of the head of
the Knights of Malta, former Grand Master Matthew
Festing, who had publicly opposed him.
The reference in the poster to "decapitation of the
Knights of Malta" refers to this battle.
Criticism
of the pontiff
Within a few hours of their appearance, the posters had
been taken down or covered over by "Illegal
Posting" signs from the City of Rome.
Conservative criticism of Pope Francis has
intensified since November, when he refused to answer an
official letter sent to him by four cardinals.The letter criticized his move to allow
divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion.
That
issue has divided many in the Catholic Church
and has left bishops around the world arguing about the
Pope's intentions and how to implement the directive.
One of the signers of that letter, known as a dubia, was
conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke, whom the Pope
removed as the head of the Vatican's Supreme Court in
2014 and named as his papal liaison to the Knights of
Malta.
On
Saturday, the Pope once again effectively sidelined
Cardinal Burke by appointing Archbishop Angelo Becciu as
his "special delegate" to the Knights and his
"exclusive spokesman" in relations between the
order and the Vatican.
Defenders
of Pope Francis claim the posters are a sign that the
Pope is doing something right. Fr. Antonio Spadaro,
editor of Jesuit Vatican journal La Civiltà Cattolica
and a friend of Pope Francis, tweeted from Rome:
"It's a sign that he's doing well and causing A LOT
of bother." The Vatican declined to comment on the
posters.
When asked about conservative criticism of him in a
November 2016 interview with Italian bishops' newspaper
Avvenire, the Pope replied, "I don't lose any sleep
over it."
February
5, 2017: Apparently, there has been building anger
against the Pope over his decision to allow divorced and
remarried Catholics to receive communion since November 2016
(which must not have been highly-publicized). That in addition to
the newer troubles involving the Knights of Malta and the firing
of priests.
This could be very
bad as another prophecy by Nostradamus indicates that when a
Great Schism is in full swing, Pope Francis will no longer be
pope.
Nostradamus, Quatrain 5.49 ~
Nul de
l'Espaigne mais de l'antique France
Ne sera esleu pour le tremblant nacelle,
A l'ennemi sera saicte fiance,
Qui dans son regne sera peste cruelle.
Not
from Spain but from ancient France
Will be the one elected for the trembling ship,
To the enemy will be made a trust,
In whose reign will be a cruel plague.
When Nostradamus
mentions a "trembling ship" in his quatrains and its
pope, he is referring to a time when the Church is in danger of
breaking up (schism) or being terribly troubled and its very
existence threatened by world events. According to the French
prophet, when this state of affairs reaches its most critical
point, the Pope from Spain (or Latin America) will no longer be
in power and a French pope shall be elected.
There are four
leading cardinals opposed to Pope Francis over hisAmoris Laetitia
decision on divorced
and remarried Catholics and dismantling of the Knights of Malta
and they are not likely to budge any time soon:
Left
to right, top then bottom: Cardinals Raymond Burke, Joachim
Meisner, Walter Brandmüller and Carlo Caffarra
If a Great Schism
does result, the prophet offers us no clue as to what exactly
happens to Pope Francis: forced retirement, firing from his
office (if that is possible), or death. Only that a French pope
will be elected. One troubling verse suggests the Pope will die:
Nostradamus, Quatrain 8.93 ~
Sept mois
sans plus obtiendra prelature,
par son deces grand schisme sera naistre:
Sept mois tiendra un autre la preture,
pres de Venise paix union renaistre.
Seven
months without further prelature obtained,
Through his death a great schism will arise:
For seven months another acts as prelate,
Near Venice, peace and union are reborn.
One can only hope
this controversy will simmer and then fade away. If it does not
and grows increasingly contentious, the days of Pope Francis are
numbered.
But given a
potentially dangerous trip by the pope is coming up this spring,
a trip to Fatima on the 100th anniversary of The
Third Secret, it may well be that the
prophecy of The Bishop Dressed in White will be
fulfilled.
LISBON,
PORTUGAL — Pope Francis is to visit
the Fatima shrine in Portugal next year on the centenary
of the date when three shepherd children said the Virgin
Mary first appeared to them above an olive
tree, Portuguese officials announced Thursday.
The
pontiff will be in the small farming town on May
12 and 13, 2017, the Portuguese president's
office announced on its website. The first apparition was
May 13, but a midnight Mass and
a candlelight procession the previous day usually kick
off the annual celebrations.
While the
Vatican only confirms papal trips closer to the date, Francis
himself has previously said he planned to visit Fatima to
mark the anniversary. No further details of
the visit were made public.
Francis
will be the fourth pope to visit Fatima. The
last one was Benedict XVI in 2010,
when he also visited the cities of Lisbon and Porto.
Like the
shrine at Lourdes, France, Fatima draws huge numbers of
visitors - local officials estimate some 6 million - each
year. The town is 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of
Lisbon.
The
Portuguese children said the Virgin Mary appeared to them
six times in 1917, between May and October, and confided
to them three secrets. The first two foretold the end of
World War I and the start of World War II, and the rise
and fall of Soviet communism.
In 2000, the Vatican
disclosed the long-awaited third secret,
describing it as foretelling the 1981 assassination
attempt against Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square
in Rome.
The
shooting was on May 13, and John Paul credited the Virgin
with saving his life.
The three
children were cousins. Two of them, Francisco and Jacinto
Marto, died at nine and 11 of pneumonia. The third,
Sister Lucia Marto, died in a convent in 2005 at 97.
Yes, there have
been three other popes who have visited Fatima without a problem,
but not on the much-hyped 100th anniversary of the Apparition and
the three prophecies. NO, refer back to Pope Francis and the Rose Prophecy... the details
of the Third Secret were never
fulfilled by the attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981. Not even
close. It is a prophecy still waiting to happen. And it may
happen at Fatima itself.
Of
course the most dangerous papal trip ever is finally being
contemplated ... a visit to Iraq, "the land between two
rivers."
BAGHDAD —
During his visit to the Vatican on Dec. 3,
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari invited Pope
Francis to visit Iraq, noting that the best time to
visit would be once the Islamic State (IS) is
defeated and displaced Christians are returning to their
homes.
Other
Iraqi officials have brought up such a visit in
the past, such as the undersecretary of the Ministry of
Health and Environment, Jassim al-Falahi, who told
the media in June that “Iraq was preparing for a
planned visit by the pope.”
In
December 2014, Francis said that he wanted to visit Iraq,
but that this was not possible at that time in light
of the security situation.
Also in
2014, when Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President
Massoud Barzani visited Francis, he noted that the pope
had agreed to visit the KRG, given the large number of
displaced Christians it hosts.
Ahmad
Jamal, a spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry,
told Al-Monitor over the phone, “Pope Francis is
invited to visit Iraq, and we reiterate this invitation
at every opportunity we get when meeting Vatican
officials. The pope has not once rejected our invitation,
and he will visit us at the earliest appropriate
opportunity.”
He added,
“The pope’s visit would reflect the
Vatican’s support in urging the international
community to help Iraq eliminate the terrorism that
killed many and forced others into displacement,
especially the Christians of Mosul, which had been
occupied by IS since June 2014. Iraq hopes the Vatican
will set a date for the visit as soon as possible, and
the Iraqi Foreign Ministry will continue its efforts to
make this visit happen.”
A
spokesman for the prime minister’s office, Saad
al-Hadithi, told Al-Monitor, “The government is
looking forward to the pope's visiting Iraq soon because
it would deepen the relationship between Iraq and the
Vatican on the one hand, and would be a great support for
Iraq’s war against IS on the other.”
This
visit has yet to be set, despite many invitations by
several officials over the years, including Chaldean
Patriarch Mar Louis Raphael I Sako, who said in
November 2011, “We really wish our beloved Pope
Francis would visit Iraq.”
The
situation in Iraq and the Middle East has captured the
attention of religious authorities at the Vatican;
this is particularly the case as a result of the acts of
violence that have affected the Christians
since 2003 in Iraq.
The
Vatican expressed opposition to the first Gulf
War that followed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
in 1990. Pope Saint John Paul II wrote a letter to
then-President Saddam Hussein in 1991, urging him to
“take courageous steps to withdraw from
Kuwait.”
The
Vatican’s interest in Iraq mainly focused on
the historic city of Ur in the southern Dhi Qar
province, where Prophet Abraham was born, according to
the Bible.
In
February 2011, news surfaced about a potential visit to
Ur by Pope Benedict XVI, and the Ministry of
Tourism approached parliament to ensure the success
of preparations for this visit.
In
November 2013, Iraq and the Vatican agreed on the
need to build advanced relations of mutual respect
in order to confront the common challenges posed by
extremism and terrorism.
Although
the pope has not yet visited Iraq, a delegation from the
Vatican held Mass on Dec.14, 2013, in the city of
Ur, headed by Monsignor Andreatta, the head of the
Vatican pilgrimage organization, during which he called
on people to perform a pilgrimage to the ancient
city of Ur.
On
Nov. 23, Francis prayed for the Iraqi people
suffering under war and expressed his hope that peace
would prevail. “I voice my solidarity with the
people and Iraq and the residents of Mosul in
particular,” he said. IS invaded
Mosul in June 2014 and has controlled it ever since,
resulting in the displacement of its residents,
particularly Christians.
On
Nov. 17, Francis brought up the Christian
“martyrs” in Iraq and Syria who have
remained faithful and sacrificed their lives for their
religion.
The
relationship between Iraq and the Vatican is heading
toward further cooperation. The new papal ambassador
in Iraq, Alberto Ortega Martin, met with Iraqi President
Fuad Masum on Nov. 19, 2015, and called for reopening
Christian schools in Iraq.
Meanwhile,
a member of Dhi Qar’s provincial council, Dakhel
Radi, told Al-Monitor, “If Pope Francis visits the
city of Ur, it will most definitely turn into an
international tourist attraction, especially after
IS’ imminent defeat and its elimination from
Iraq.”
Journalist
Walid al-Tai told Al-Monitor, “The people of
Dhi Qar hope the pope's visit can finally happen because
it would give the impression that Iraq is a safe
country, and thus Christians from all over the world
could visit the city of Ur, without having any security
concerns, in light of the prevailing terrorism in several
[other] countries in the Middle East.”
There will always
be terrorism and terrorists, I think, until the end of time ...
even if Nostradamus is right and that end does not come until
2242-43 AD. If ISIS is destroyed, there will always be surviving
members ready to carry out revenge and form new terrorist
organizations. Al Qaeda can always return to Iraq in a new and
deadlier form than Islamic State. I really doubt it will ever be
safe for a Pope to enter in to this country, but if one ever does
and comes out of it alive it will be a miracle.
ISIS
TAKES TERROR TO CATHOLIC CHURCH IN FRANCE; POPE FRANCIS HORRIFIED
BY MURDER OF PRIEST
ISIS once again
returns to the news as an agency dedicated to the destruction of
the Catholic Church, the Pope, and all of Chistendom. Wholesale
terrorist shootings and bombings in European cities have now
focused on the Church itself, its priests, nuns, and worshippers. Reportedly, the men forced Father
Jacques Hamel to kneel before slitting his throat and
filming it. Pope Francis, on the eve of a papal visit to Poland,
was only one country away from this slaughter. What will happen
when this terror makes its way to Italy and to the Vatican?
Krakow is a city watered by only one river ... a city
frequently visited by Pope John Paul II.
Nevertheless, this
murder and abduction in a French Catholic church is
potentially portentious.
Just as
the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II did not
comform to the details found in the two rivers/rose
prophecy or the Third Secret of Fatima, there is no
assurance an attempt cannot be made anywhere in the world
against the current pope ... especially as 2016 and 2017
are base 7 anniversaries of the two attempts on John Paul
in 1981 and 1982.
It is the
latter year that is especially worrisome, as Francis will
be traveling to Fatima, Portugal next year.
As reminder of
what the base 7 system may hold for the following year, a second
attempt on Pope John Paul II's life occurred in May
1982 when he was attacked by a knife-wielding
priest. This brings us to the month and year of May 2017.
There are other
dangers to the papacy and to Francis himself that are not going
to vanish any time soon.
I have stated
before several times since Francis was voted in as Pope to
replace the retired Benedict XVI the danger posed to him by
Muslim terrorists and later by ISIS. His declaration of war on
the Islamic State likely will work both ways:
POPE
FRANCIS SAYS MILITARY ACTION AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE IS
"LICIT"; PLANS FUTURE TRIP TO IRAQ
The Holy Father
has been facing a grave challenge. He declared as
"licit" all and any military action against the Islamic
State that has carved out a caliphate the size of Belgium in both
Iraq and Syria. His remarks fell short of an actual call for war,
but did recognize that the appropriate conditions were met for
military action to be taken and considered as just and as a
legitimate means to end the genocide being committed by ISIS.
That war came very close to becoming World War III when Russia
got involved.
There have been
two chilling developments related to this:
1) Reports that
the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) is planning an assassination of
the Pope:
The
Islamic State (Isis) is intent on killing the Pope, the
Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See has warned the Vatican.
Habeeb Al-Sadr, who has been the ambassador since 2010,
has advised that one of Isis’ goals is to
assassinate the Pontiff and warned that the jihadists
“don’t just threaten”, according to
Italian newspaper La Nazione ...
"What has been declared by the self-proclaimed
Islamic State is clear – they want to kill the
Pope," he told La Nazione on Tuesday, adding:
"The threats against the Pope are credible."The threat
against Pope Francis, 77, was widely discussed earlier
this year after he had endorsed the ‘stopping’
of Isis and its persecution of 40,000 Christians in
northern Iraq. It was reported in August that security in
Rome had been heightened after Israeli officials warned
that the Pope’s censure of Isis had led the
militants to target him ... Mr Al-Sadr, however, said an
assault against the Pope won’t necessarily happen in
an Arab or Muslim-majority country, considering that some
Isis fighters are from Britain, France and America. He
said the militants "have Western passports. Isis
could send these fighters to commit a terrorist act in
Europe," warning that the Pope should be protected
wherever he goes.
Important to note:
the Pope need not visit "an Arab or Muslim-majority
country" to be targeted by ISIS. If terrorists could strike
in Boston, then they certainly can attack the Pope in Yerevan or
Fatima.
2) However, it
remains a possibility that Pope Francis will yet visit Iraq:
It
would be possible for the Pope to visit Iraq, Chaldean
Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil has said.
In an interview with the charity Aid to the Church in Need,
he said: “I spoke to His Holiness in person last
November and told him that we would be delighted to welcome
him in Erbil. He replied that he would be pleased to come,
but that his staff would not allow him to at present.”
Archbishop Warda emphasised that he himself believed such a
visit was possible. “But it will take a little
time,” he added.
The
archbishop, in whose diocese tens of thousands of Christian
refugees have sought refuge, estimated that it will still be
several months, however, before the areas occupied by ISIS in
Mosul and on the nearby Niniveh Plain can be liberated. He
said: “Should signs emerge of the recapture of the
Christian towns and villages occupied by ISIS, this would
fill the Christian refugees with great hope and encourage
them to stay.” Last summer, more than 125,000 Christians
fled from Mosul and the Niniveh Plain ahead of the advancing
Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist militia. The archbishop said:
“Our people feel neglected. They have the impression
that there are regions with greater strategic importance for
the Iraqi government than the Niniveh Plain.”
While a specific
statement that Francis may consider visiting either Syria or Iraq
has yet to occur, it is possible that he may have to go there in
the near future:
Should Pope
Francis, or any future pope, choose to venture into the
Mesopotamian "land between two rivers," then I must
revert to the original premise of the main page when it was
created in May 1999 to warn the late Pope John Paul II of
possible assassination if he visited Iraq. At that time, my
website was located at the now long gone web host known as
GeoCities.
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