Sr. Bertina Bouquillon 19th
century (Nursing Nun of Belay)
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Sister
Bertine, a holy religious, who died in the year l850, at St. Omer, France,
during her life was favored with heavenly revelations relative to the coming of
Antichrist and the end of the world. Sister Bertine was a religious of eminent
sanctity. She was born in February, 1801. At the age of twenty-two she was
impressed with the stigmas of our Lord. Jesus Christ, which were visible every
Friday and on all the principal Feasts, during the last twenty-nine years of
her life. Her sincere and profound humility and the childlike candor of her
evangelical simplicity were so great that all her religious sisters were filled
with admiration and holy edification at her saintly conduct. This good sister
was deeply mortified whenever marks of respect and veneration were shown to
her, which were due to the extraordinary gifts which she received from God, and
to the eminent holiness of her life. In order to shun these manifestations of
esteem, she studiously kept herself concealed, avoided visits, and entreated
her religious superiors to employ her in the lowest and hardest labors of the
house. Her religious sisters unanimously believed that good Sister Bertine had
ever preserved unsullied the white robe of her baptismal innocence. She died
more through excess of Divine love than through physical pain, on the 25th of
January, 1850, aged forty-nine years and ten months. Sister Bertine had often
foretold that she should not become old. The bishop of the diocese gave orders
that a juridical information should be taken about the stigmatization of this
great servant of God, and the ecclesiastical commission pronounced the stigmas
to have been the effect of Divine operation. There is not the least doubt that
Sister Bertine was one of those souls through whom God is pleased to manifest
the riches of his divine power, wisdom, and goodness. These prophecies were
written sometime between 1810 and 1830 and were entrusted to Fr Fulgenc, the Chaplain
of the Trappist Monestarty of Notre Dame des Gardes, near Angers. 1
“The
beginning of the last period of the world will revolve around the 20th
century…” 1a
“Once
again the mad men seem to gain the upper hand! They laugh God to scorn. Now,
the churches are closed; the pastors
run away; the Holy Sacrifice ceases…” 2
“Woe
to thee, corrupt city! the wicked try to destroy everything; their books and
their doctrines are swamping the world. But the day of justice is come. Here is
your King; he comes forward amidst the confusion of those stormy days. Horrible
times! The just and the wicked fall. Babylon is reduced to ashes. Woe to thee,
city three times accursed!…” 3
“There was also a great battle, the like of which has never been seen before. Blood was flowing like water after heavy rain. The wicked were trying to slaughter all the servants of the Religion of Jesus Christ. After they have killed a large number, they raised a cry of victory, but suddenly the just received help from above….” 4
“This great crisis in which eventually the good triumph will be of short duration namely about 3 months. The majority of the wicked will perish and the living will be very much afraid over the chastisement of others. They cannot but recognize the finger of God and adore His omnipotence. Many will then be converted and order and justice restored…” 5
“A
saint raises his arms to heaven. He allays the wrath of God. He ascends the throne
of Peter. At the same time the Great Monarch ascends the throne of his
ancestors. All is quiet now. Altars are set up again; religion comes to life
again. What I see now is so wonderful that I am unable to express it…” 6
“All
these things shall come to pass once the wicked have succeeded in circulating
large numbers of bad books…” 7
“The
end of time is approaching and the Antichrist will not delay his coming. We
will not see him, nor those who follow us, but those who come after the latter
will be under his dominion. The beginning of the last period of the world will
not occur in the nineteenth but the twentieth century…” 8
“Sister
Bertine moreover stated that she had seen the holy patriarch Enoch, one of the
two just men who shall have to fight against Antichrist, and sustain the
faithful during their severe trials at the end of the world. “He was dressed,”
she said, “like a missionary, ready, as it were, to start for his great
approaching difficult mission; the end of the world, however,” she added,
“shall not be during this century, but between 1900 and 1950.” 10
1.
Fr Guadentius Rossi (Pellegrino) The Christian Trumpet (Thos. B. Noonand &
Co, Boston, U.S. 1873) p 186
1a.
Desmond A. Birch Trial Tribulation and Triumph: Before, During and After
Antichrist, (Queenship Publishing. 1996) p 310
2. Yves Dupont, Catholic
Prophecy (Tan Books and Publishers 1970) p 51
3. ibid
4. ibid
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6. Yves Dupont, Catholic
Prophecy (Tan Books and Publishers 1970) p 51
7.
ibid
8.
Voix Prophetiques Curicquo,
1872, Vol 1 p 472 as quoted by Desmond A. Birch Trial Tribulation and
Triumph: Before, During and After Antichrist, (Queenship Publishing. 1996)
p 216-217
9.
Fr Guadentius Rossi (Pellegrino) The Christian Trumpet (Thos. B. Noonand &
Co, Boston, U.S. 1873) p 186
10.
ibid.