For a short biography of Anthony Mary Claret, a Roman Catholic bishop and canonized saint, see here.
Revelation 8:13:
And now, conditioned to
receive supernatural messages in price words and audible tones and, when
they were precepts, to obey perfectly, he was ready for the most glorious
promise and the most portentous revelation of all. “At 7:30 on the morning of
September 23 [1859], Our Lord told me: ‘You will fly across the earth . . .
to preach of the immense chastisements soon to come to pass.’ And He gave
me to understand those words of the Apocalypse: 6 ‘And I beheld
and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying
with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth; by reason of
the rest of the voices of the three angels who are yet to sound the trumpet.’
This means that the three great judgments of God which are going to fall upon
the world are: 1) Protestantism and Communism; 2) the four archdemons who will,
in a truly frightful manner, incite all to the love of pleasure, money, reason,
and independence of will; 3) the great wars with their horrible consequences.”
Can we read this prophecy,
set down for us a century ago, just when our world was entering upon the “golden
age” of industry and commerce, of the scientific achievements that our grandfathers
were assured who destined to create a life so good for all peoples that war
would be banished forever, and doubt from whence it came? And do we dare to
trace it from the Protestant Reformation to the curse of Communism; from the
conquest of materialism to the deification of poor weak human reason and
self-determination into “the great ward and their horrible consequences!” Upon
the clean tablet of Anthony Claret’s selfless spirit Our Lord engraved the warning
His servant was to spell out for us: the incredible but inevitable graph of the
“progress” of one century—our century! (Fanchón Royer, The Life of
St. Anthony Mary Clare: Modern Apostle [Rockford, Ill.: Tan Books and
Publishers, Inc., 1957], 212-23, italics in original, comments in square
brackets added for clarification)
Revelation 10:1:
A day later [September 24,
1859] he was granted a second revelation. This too, from the Apocalypse: 7
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud,
and a rainbow was on his head, and his face was as the sun and his feet as pillars
of fire. And he had in his hand a little book open; and he set his right foot
upon the sea, and his left foot upon the earth. And he cried with a loud voice
as when a lion roareth. And when he cried, even thunders uttered their voices.”
These thunders, Anthony Claret saw, were the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, “because like thunder they will shout and make their voices heard by
their live and zeal,” as indeed they have done from that day to our own. It was
this righteous Clarentin thunder which would gain 275 of them the victory of
Heaven, martyrdom, before 1950; and it requires small imagination to note a
relation between the outrageous slaughter of Claret’s modern-day sons by the
Spanish Reds during the most recent of that nation’s civil wars and the fact,
too little appreciated, that the single European country ever to have fallen beneath
the Russian heel thereafter granted the will and strength to drive the
archenemy of Jesus Christ back across its borders, is Spain, homeland of Saint
Anthony Claret and the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! (Fanchón Royer, The
Life of St. Anthony Mary Clare: Modern Apostle [Rockford, Ill.: Tan Books
and Publishers, Inc., 1957], 213, italics in original, comments in square
brackets added for clarification)
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