Message
of Heede, Germany 1937
Feastday not known
Born not known
Died not Known
When 4 girls Anna Schulte, Greta and Maria Gauseforth and Susanna Bruns reported on November 1st 1937, that The Blessed Virgin had appeared to them with the Divine child in her arms, the news was received in village with predictable skepticism and amusement. It wasn’t until the girls shown a dramatic change in their way of life that villagers began to wonder. The girls switched from pleasures and amusements to long and fervent prayer, impatiently waiting for the hour when they would see the Heavenly Vision again. Nevertheless the Pastor and most of the villagers refused to believe in the apparitions for a long time but were finally won over. Crowds came to Heede when the news percolated to the surrounding towns and villages. But Hitler ruled Germany in those days and the Gestapo swiftly put a stop to this “superstitious nonsense”. The children were taken to a lunatic asylum and the pilgrimages forbidden. After a few weeks the children were released but forbidden to go near the place of ‘The Apparitions’. However Our Lady appeared to them in other places as subsequently did Our Lord. The apparitions of Our Lady finally came to and end after 3 years on November 3, 1940 but new apparitions of Our Lord started in 1945. The diocesan bulletin of Onasbruch, Germany, approved the supernatural character of the events of Heede. The following messages can be found in Charles de Actualidad S.A.R Edit Ersa Madrid, 1195 with the Imprimatur of Dr. Garcia Lahiguera:
Our
Lady said to the children:
The
world will have to drink the dregs of the chalice of divine wrath for their
innumerable sins through which they have wounded the sacred heart of Jesus
(Then she admonished them). Pray…pray much, especially for the conversion of
sinners” 1
Our
Lord said to the children:
“Humanity has not heeded my Blessed Mother
who appeared at Fatima, to exhort everyone to penitence. Now I have come, in
this last hour (100 years?) to admonish the world. The times are grave. Men should
do penance for their sins…I am near. The earth will tremble and will suffer. It
will be terrific. A minor judgement. For those who are not in a state of grace
it will be frightful. The angels of my justice are now scattered across the
world. Men do not listen to my calls. They close their ears, resist my graces
and refuse my mercy, my love and my merits. They will agonize in the blindness
of their faults. Hatred and greed fills the hearts of men. All this is the work
of Satan. The world sleeps in a dense darkness…. This generation deserves to be
annihilated but I desire to show myself as merciful. Great and terrible things
are being prepared. That which is about to happen will be terrible, like
nothing ever since the beginning of the world….” 2
“All
those who have suffered in those last times are my martyrs and they prepare the
newly converted of my church. That which will shortly happen, will greatly
surpass everything that has ever happened until now. The Mother of God and the
angels will intervene. Hell will believe that victory is theirs, but I will
seize it from them. Many blaspheme Me and, because of this, I shall allow all
kinds of misfortunes to rain upon the earth for, through this, many will be
saved. Blessed are those who suffer everything in reparation for those who
offend me. My beloved children the hour is near. Pray incessantly and you will
not be confounded. I unite My elect. They will come together, at the same time,
from all parts of the world and they will glorify Me.I come. Blessed are those
who will be prepared. Blessed are those who hear me…” 3
References
1. The Last Times p 37 as quoted by
Desmond A. Birch Trial Tribulation and Triumph: Before, During and After
Antichrist, (Queenship Publishing. 1996) p 387
2.
ibid p 388
3.
ibid p 389