Father Nectou S.J. 18th Century

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Died 1777

Father Nectou was the Jesuit Provincial in the South West of France fro many years. The priests who knew him regarded him as a Saint and Prophet. He prophesied the suppression of the Jesuit Order well before its occurrence in 1773. After the suppression occurred as he predicted, he lived as a secular priest in Poitiers. His public reputation for holiness during this period induced a young grieving mother whose baby had just died to bring it in hope to Father Nectou. It was attested by several witnesses that he raised the baby from the dead and returned it to its mother. He died in 1777 (roughly 20 years before the French Revolution).

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After having in the most minute circumstantial manner been foretold all the horrible events of the first French Revolution, the Abbé Nectou added to the Abbé Raux”

“‘A reaction will follow which shall be taken for a counter-revolution; this shall last for some years; but this shall only be a patch sewed together. There will be no schism; but the Church shall not yet triumph in France; there will be more trouble.” ¹

“A man disliked by France will be placed on the throne; a man of the house of Orleans will be made king. It is only after this event that the counter-revolution shall begin…” ²

“It shall not be effected by foreign powers; but two parties will be formed in France which will fight unto death. The party of evil will at first be stronger and the good side weaker. At that time there will be such a terrible crisis that people will believe that the end of the world has come. Blood will flow in many large cities. The very elements will be convulsed. It will be like a little General Judgement.” ³

“A great multitude of persons shall perish in these calamitous times. But the wicked shall never prevail. They indeed shall conspire for the destruction of the Church, but time shall not be allowed them, because this frightful crisis shall be of short duration. When all will be considered lost, all will be found safe” ⁴

“During this revolution, which will very likely be general and not confined to France. Paris will be destroyed so completely that twenty years afterwards fathers walking over its ruins with their children will be asked by them what kind of place that was; to whom they will answer: 'My child, this was a great city which God has destroyed on account of her crimes.’…” ⁵

“The disaster will come to pass shortly after the power of England begins to wane. This will be the sign. As when the fig tree begins to sprout and produce leaves it is a certain sign that summer is near. England shall in her turn experience a more frightful revolution that that of France. It shall continue long enough to give time to France to recover her strength then she will help England return to order and peace…” ⁶

[version i] “When those things come to pass which will bring on the triumph of the Church, then such confusion will reign on earth that people will think God has permitted them to have their own contrary will and that the provenance of God is not concerned about the world. The confusion will be so general that men will not be able to think aright, as if God had withheld His Providence from mankind, and that, during the worst crisis, the best that can be done would be to remain where God has placed us, and persevere in fervent prayers…”⁷

[version ii] “When one is close to these events which must bring the triumph of the Church, the disorder will be so complete that you will know nothing any more. When the moment comes for the last crisis, there will be nothing other to do but remain where God will have placed us, to contain themselves in its interior and to request, while waiting for the passage of anger and justice divine…” ⁸

“Yes, Paris shall certainly be destroyed, but before this occurs, such signs and portents shall be observed, that all good people will be induced to fly away from it. After this most terrible event, everything shall return to order; justice shall reign in the world, and the counter-revolution shall be accomplished. The triumph of the Church will then be so complete that nothing like it shall ever be seen, for this will be the last victory of the Church upon earth. Those Christians who are fortunate enough to survive will thank God for preserving them and giving them the privilege of beholding this glorious triumph of the Church” ⁹

“Misfortunes must arrive. Blood will run in torrents in North and the South. The West will be saved because of its faith. But blood will run so much in North and the South, that I see it running like the rain in one day of great storm, and I see the horses treading blood up to their straps. It is mainly in the cities that blood will run. The religion will be persecuted, the ministers will be obliged to hide at least temporarily. The churches will be closed a short time...Paris will be destroyed in the middle of all these calamities, so destroyed that the charm will pass there. At this point in time all will be saved, because between the cry ‘All is lost’ and ‘All is saved’, it will so to speak not have there intervals - time to transfer a wafer. The foreign powers will be armed, will go against France. Russia will come to water its horses in the Rhine, but they will not pass it...Russia will convert and it will help France to return peace and peace in the whole world...After the crisis, there will be a general council, in spite of some oppositions made by the clergy itself. Then, there will one herd and that only one Pasteur, because all infidels and all heretics (but not the Jews whose mass will convert only after the death of the beast), will return in the Latin Church, whose triumph will be continued until the destruction of the Antichrist…” ⁹

References

1. Fr Guadentius Rossi (Pellegrino) The Christian Trumpet (Thos. B. Noonand & Co, Boston, U.S. 1873)

2. Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy (Tan Books and Publishers 1970) p 48

3. ibid p 47-48

4. ibid p 48

5. ibid

6. ibid p.48

7. ibid p 47

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9. Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy (Tan Books and Publishers 1970) p 48

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