St Odilia (St.
Odile), Vosges Mountains, 720
Feastday 13th December
Born 660
Died about 720
Born blind to the family of Alsatian Lord
Aldaric and Bereswinda who put her out because of her disability. Rather that having
her killed, she was given to a peasant family. Taken in by a convent at age
twelve, she gained her sight upon being touched by chrism during her baptism by
Saint Erhard of Regensburg. Her brother wanted her back for use in an arranged
marriage; when he heard of his son's machinations and Odilia's miraculous
healing, her father was so angry that he struck and killed the brother. Odilia
she fled back to the convent to escape the marriage, and her family gave up the
idea. She joined the abbey, and eventually became abbess. Founded the
Odilienberg monastery at Niedermunster.1
1.
Taken from the Patron Saints Index at
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainto06.htm
“Listen, listen oh my brother, for I have
seen the terror of the forests and of the mountains. Fear has seized the people
because never in any region of the universe has one given testimony of such
trouble. The time has come when Germany will be called the most belligerent
nation of the world. The period has arrived when out of her bosom will come the
terrible warrior who will undertake to spread war in the world. The men in arms
will call him the Anti-Christ. He will be cursed by mothers by thousands who
will lament like Rachel over the fate of their children, and who will refuse
consolation because they will no longer be of this world and all will be
devastated in their homes…” 1
“The conqueror will come from the banks of
the Danube. He will be a remarkable chief among men. The war that he will make will
be the most terrifying that men have ever undertaken. His arm will be
flamboyant and the helmets of his soldiers will bear points darting
flashlights, while their hands will carry lighted torches. It will be
impossible to calculate the number of cruelties committed. He will be
victorious on land, sea, and even in the air because one will see winged
warriors, in these unbelievable attacks, mounting to the heavens to seize the
stars and throw them on the cities from one end of the universe to the other in
order to start gigantic fires. The nations will be astonished and will say:
'whence comes this force?' 'How is he able to undertake such a war?' The earth
will tremble at the shock of the fighting. The rivers will run red with blood
and sea monsters will disperse with terror to the top of the oceans, while
black storms will spread desolation everywhere. Future generations will be
astonished to see that his powerful and numerous enemies will not have been
capable of stopping the march of his victories…” 2
“And the war will be long. The conqueror
will have attained the apogee of his triumphs towards the middle of the sixth
month of the second year of hostilities. This will be the end of the first
period of bloody victories. He will say 'accept the yoke of my domination,'
while continuing his victories. But his enemies will not submit and the war
will continue and he will cry out: 'Misfortune will make them fall because I am
the conqueror…” 3
“The second part of the war will be equal
in length to half of the first part. They will call it the period of
'diminuition.' It will be full of surprises which will make the earth tremble
when twenty belligerent nations will clash. Towards the middle of this period
the little nations submissive to the conqueror will cry out: 'Give us peace.'
But there will not be peace for these nations. This will not be the end of
these wars but the beginning of the end and the combats of body against body
will take place in the citadel of citadels. Then will be seen a revolt among the
women of his own country who will wish to stone him. But one will also see
prodigies in the Orient…” 4
“The third period will be the shortest of
all and the conqueror will have lost confidence in his warriors. This period
will be called the 'period of invasion' because by just retribution the soil of
the conqueror by reason of his injustice and his atheism, will be invaded in
all parts and pillaged. Around the mountains torrents of blood will flow. This
will be then the last battle…” 5
“The nations will sing hymns of gratitude
in the temples of God and will thank the Most High for their deliverance
because then will have appeared the warrior (Great Monarch?) who will disperse
the troops of the conqueror, the armies of which will be annihilated by an unknown
and frightful illness. This evil will discourage his soldiers, while the
nations will say: 'The finger of God is there. It is a just chastisement’…” 6
“Because God is just - while sometimes
allowing cruelty and depredations - all the spoliated people, who will have
believed Him, will recover what they have lost and something additional as a
reward on earth….” 7
“There will come a time, when war will break out, more terrible than all other wars combined, which have ever visited mankind. A horrible warrior will unlease it, and his adversaries will call him Antichrist. All nations of the earth will fight each other in this war. The fighters will rise up in the heavens to take the stars and will throw them on the cities, to set ablaze the buildings and to cause immense devastations. Oceans will lie between the great warriors, and the monsters of the sea, terrified by everything that happens on or under the sea, will flee to the deep. Battles of the past will be only skirmishes compared to the battles that will take place, because the earth will be red, and even the sky, the water and the air, since blood will flow in all directions. The earth will shake from the violent fighting. Famine and pestilence will join the war. The nations will then cry "peace, peace," but there will be no peace. Thrice will the sun rise over the heads of the combatants, without having been seen by them. But afterwards there will be peace, and all who have broken peace will have lost their lives. On a single day more men will be killed than the catacombs of Rome have ever held... “ 8
“Pyres will be erected greater than the
greatest city, and people will ascend the highest mountains to praise God, and
nobody will want to make war anymore. Strange signs will appear in the skies:
both horns of the moon will join the cross...” 9
“Happy will be those who will have survived
the war, since the pleasures of life will begin again, and the sun will have a
new brilliance... “ 10
“…Woe to those who, in those days, do not
fear the Antichrist, for he is the father of those who are not repelled by
crime. He will arouse more homicides and many people will shed tears over his
evil customs. Men will set themselves one against the other and at the end will
want to re-establish order. Some will try to do so, but this will not succeed
and thus will end up even worse off than before! But if things will have
reached the summit and if the hand of man can no longer do anything, it will be
put in the hands of Him, who can send down a punishment so terrible that it
will not have been seen before. God has already sent the Flood, but he has
sworn never to send one again. What he will do will be something unexpected and
terrible.” 11
References
1. Rev R.
Gerald. Culleton The Prophets and Our Times (Tan Books and Publishers 1941) p 134
2. ibid p134-135
3. ibid
4. ibid
5. ibid p135-136
6. ibid p 136
7. ibid p136
8. Robert A.
Nelson. Prophecy: A History of the Future Internet Version
(http://www.rexresearch.com/prophist/phfcon~1.htm)
9. ibid
10. ibid
11. ibid.