Again, various quotations from various ecstasies featuring revelations about the future Sanctuary of the Cross that will be constructed on the site of Marie-Julie Jahenny's cottage. It will be a great site of pilgrimage, healing and conversions. There are other revelations also here, such as predictions of her death, and also the growth of her Mission of the Cross before and after her death. There is also a secret revealed regarding the foundation stone of the sanctuary.
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(January 5, 1877)
“The Cross will one day be the mark (i.e., the sign, emblem) of the Mission in the house that you live. The cross will be simple but the Divine Heart will be engraved with the crown of thorns. The fountain, and on the other side, there will be the cross with Jesus Christ crucified. My victim, your house will be called the Rest of the Cross, the Sanctuary of the Cross, the Shrine of Remission. Later, I will tell you another name that is confused with them, that will form the true name of this place.” (i.e. the real name of the Sanctuary will be revealed later.)
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(January 12, 1877) – Marie-Julie seems to predict where her body will be taken after her death, ad tot he cross that will be placed in the shrine.
Marie-Julie: “The white doves will take off and go fluttering along the creek. It is there also that my poor body will pass. (After her death?) The Cross will remain in my place by the stream.”
(NOTE: this seems to refer to the cross that will be placed on the site after her death – Our Lord promised in the earlier visions the cross that was in her cell would be a graced sacramental and would bring graces to sinners after her death.)
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(January 19, 1877) - Our Lord reveals Marie-Julie will not live to see the Restoration of the Faith in France, the Age of Peace, or event he Construction of the Sanctuary. This will happen after her death.
Our Lord to Marie-Julie: “Do you know how (many) hours of existence (you have) yet?” (i.e., how long she has still left on earth.) I will tell you but later. You, you will not see the beautiful times of France. You will not see the beautiful cross that My Heart has blessed, nor the sanctuary of which I have drawn the plans, nor the altar, nor that tabernacle where I will rest and where I will leave to give Myself to sinners. (i.e. in Holy Communion). You will not see the long work of your Father (confessor) in the modest house where you lived and suffered. You will go to heaven.
Mary plants fourteen crosses on the way; she will rest at the fourteenth cross before reaching the fountain. Fourteen good angels bearing a cross blessed by the Eternal Father. From there will come the blessings for the other's cross.
(NOTE: Marie-Julie is told she will not live to see the Sanctuary built. The 14 crosses – seems to be a symbolic vision of several things. First, of Marie-Julie Jahenny's 'Holy Novitiate of the Cross' in which she rose to spiritual perfection through 14 steps through various lessons given to her by the saints, several of which are already posted on this blog. Click here to learn more about the 'Novitiate of the Cross.' We also see symbolic 14 stations used to describe the growth of her mission on earth, up to the time of her death, and afterwards.)
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(January 26, 1877)
Marie-Julie: “Before my prayer at the cross, I have a secret first.
At the foot of a cross, Jesus said:
'My Victim, it is here that is the cross of your Father. (i.e. her spiritual director, possibly Fr David.) He will sit from morning until noon and beyond to hear the confessions of wretched sinners (to the right of the cross). This is the place of your heart.
The first time, he will sit there with a heart full of sadness. It will be a test so strong that if I did not intervene, he would be discouraged and abandon the Work of the Cross. After, he will overflow with joy and consolation.
The Mission of the Cross will be maintained by fourteen Fathers of the Church. The works will still be numerous, because in the beginning they will be only five. The number fourteen will be the definitive and final number. The first stone (foundation stone?) of the Sanctuary of the Cross will be blessed by Pius IX. The Bishop and your Father (confessor) will go to Rome. They will bear a small stone as big as a hand. Your Father will find here, under his consecrated hand, this chosen stone. (That) your Father will mark this secret. The Bishop with present it to the Holy Father who will bless it. A tear will run from his eyes. He will say:
'Oh! My lord, how happy you are to have a Sanctuary dedicated to the Cross and to have been chosen by the Almighty God.'
Then, turning affectionately to your Father, he will add:
'O you, a friend of the Cross, you have a chosen place in heaven, by God first, and the men who have made it for you embellish it by persecution and slander.'
The Holy Father will turn again to the Bishop and say:
'O my lord, you are a Saint Michael on Earth, you bring down to Hell, the demons bent under your consecrated hand.'
The Holy Father gives a special blessing to the Bishop and my Father. He said:
'I know by Providence that after the peace, I will bless France, I will return to the Sanctuary of the Cross and there I call the blessings of Heaven.'
He told them a secret, inspired by the Sacred Heart: There will come here another foreign Prelate to help the Bishop in preaching. Our Lord said to me:
'He had come to inform the Holy Father, a secret over (about) France.'
(NOTES/ OBSERVATIONS: this is an interesting revelation that could have what was occurring at the time mixed with future revelations about the Sanctuary of the Cross. Marie-Julie said Our Lord gave her a secret just then – first, that her father confessor, I.e. apparently Fr. David, would suffer much in trying to promote the work and hear confessions, but then consolation would come. This could refer to the initial obstacles faced by him and the supporters of Marie-Julie at the time when slander began to spread against her and the Work, but this would be overcome. In fact, Fr. David her confessor was accused at one time of inventing the 'fraud' of Marie-Julie and was the one responsible for 'inventing' her 'claims' of mysticism!
Then, if I am reading the context of this vision correctly, Marie-Julie was shown a secret regarding the foundation stone of the Sanctuary. Her Father confessor was shown the first stone he was to take to the Bishop to have it blessed as the foundation stone of the Sanctuary of the Cross. It was somewhere on the site of the cottage or near it, and, it was as big as a hand. Her father confessor was to mark the secret, i.e. possibly record the event, (he did note down several of her early ecstasies). Then the Bishop would take the small stone from the site to Rome be blessed by Bl Pius IX. It was revealed to Marie-Julie that Pius IX would approve this sanctuary, bless the stone, and that it was Providentially revealed to the Pope he would bless France during the Age of Peace and would come to the Sanctuary. It was then revealed to Marie-Julie that Pius IX was given a secret revealed by the Sacred Heart – that a foreign Prelate would come to the Sanctuary to help the Bishop and that the prelate had come to give the Pope a secret regarding France.
Not all of this is clear, but as this vision is dated January 1877, the Bishop who takes the stone has to be Bishop Fournier who first approved her visions – he was bishop during the pontificate of Pius IX which lasted between 1846-1878. Bishop Fournier travelled to Rome and brought the case of Marie-Julie before the Holy See in 1877. Apparently, if I recall some information from French website, he was praised in how he handled her case.
In all, Marie-Julie was given a secret regarding what happened during that papal audience. Marie-Julie seems to have revealed that Bishop Fournier took the foundation stone for the Sanctuary to be blessed by Pius IX, although we don't know where it is yet, at least I have not heard or seen mention of it by the 'Marie-Julie Jahenny Association' in France. From this text it seems Bl. Pius IX approved of the Work of the Cross in private at least.
However, what can we make of the detail Pius IX received the heavenly inspiration he would visit the Sanctuary? Of interest I've discovered Marie-Julie revealed Bl. Pius IX was NOT the Angelic Pontiff who would bring the restoration and the Age of Peace. Since he was not the predestined Angelic Pontiff, the Age of Peace has not come yet and the Sanctuary is not yet built, we can assume this particular text is a prediction that Bl Pius IX will miraculously appear at some point, perhaps at the site sometime in the future. Perhaps he will indicate where the hidden foundation stone is and where it is to be laid? So far, that is my personal educated guess.)
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(March 14, 1877)
Marie-Julie - “I saw the first tests against the construction of the Sanctuary of the Cross, but that will not last long. They will be quickly dispersed.”
Our Lord: “Hurry to come and receive your reward in Heaven. The blessings of Heaven will fall on this small corner of land that I have blessed and prepared. I will raise up a Sanctuary of the Cross in solitude among the trees.”
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(April 6, 1877)
Our Lord to Marie-Julie: “The time has come when it is necessary that the Mission of the Cross begins. As soon as I have spoken, the difficulties will be removed. In a few years from now, there will be at the location of your cell, a beautiful sanctuary of the Cross where the pilgrims and the sinners will flock. Who can make such a beautiful Work but I, the Almighty God who have spoken so often in your heart on this lowly earth? My victim in the Mission of the Cross, I will begin by giving a small number of Victims of the Cross, the Fathers of the Church. When the sanctuary will be standing and the cross marks the entry, I will choose the required number. It is I who am the Architect. In your village, I received much ingratitude; this lowly earth will feed only on dry and arid hearts that knew only blasphemies and outrages. I always choose places where there is an ungrateful people. If souls were good Christians, they would have seen this lowly village filled with water which would have suggested they say "God is there." Men will witness this heavenly grace that will appear in this sanctuary. They will recognize the effect of My great power. I will bless your village and the surrounding lands that will be preserved from the plagues and the wrath of Heaven.”
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(April 20, 1877)
Our Lady: “My child, here is the planting of the new Calvary.”
Our Lady prayed and wept. She joined her hands to heaven and said:
Heavenly Father, bless this land covered with mud and sins; This is where will be planted the new cross and the Second Passion of My Son.
My child, if I could with my tears, dig to plant the new Calvary.”
Our Lady falls to her knees and wept with such abundance that the earth did not move forward to drink the tears of my mother.
“I am so exhausted,” She said, “that I fear of expiring before having brought my hand to dig this land and to plant this cross. Let us both get to work, let us dig this wretched land to plant the cross.”
Our Lady blessed me and I began to dig.
(NOTE: 'fear of expiring'. Since Our Lady blessed her to dig, and, Marie-Julie was speaking, it is possible it was Marie-Julie who feared to expire before the work of the Mission had a chance to get started since her death was foretold to her several times and a scribe could have incorrectly dictated who the 'she' was in this text. Sometimes the scribes had to work fast to try and write everything Marie-Julie said – also, some things could be misread if the scribe was sloppy in their dictation. Sometimes there are text gaps due to this. Also, there were problems regarding some of the texts in that shorthand was used, and people are still trying to figure out what was written down. So, this could be a typo.
Or, as the Mission of the Cross is described mystically as a 'New Calvary' and 'Second Passion' happening on earth, Our Lady could be referring to a mystical or symbolical meaning form of 'expiring' as we know She cannot die twice.
Perhaps Our Lady is experiencing mystical pain for the earth at at that point that she felt sorrow unto that like a 'death' as if experiencing Calvary all over again, and was 'exhausted' trying to keep the wrath of God from striking the earth before the Mission had a chance to begin. We see her indicate that her tears of sorrow were so abundant the earth could not absorb them, but yet were not enough to 'dig' the foundations of the Mission of the Cross. It would require even more effort. Below we see she tells Marie-Julie the promised Works of the Cross will begin when men rebel against God and the Church, so the Mission will grow through huge trials and sufferings on earth, like a 'second' Calvary.)
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(1st May 1877)
Our Lord: “My victim, I come with My Cross because it is here that I founded My promise. It is in this little house that this new devotion will be restored. The Cross will serve as a shelter for sinners, homeless orphans and the poor hearts. When I made you this promise, it was already in March, four years ago.”
Marie-Julie: “I did not understand.”
Our Lord: “I am telling you: do you accept My nails? You answered me, yes. By espousing My sufferings you espouse the Cross. The Cross will call your home and your home will call the Mission.”
Our Lady said: “The Cross will take birth in perilous times. The works of the Cross will commence when men begin to rebel against Jesus. Soon the pilgrims will be near the spiritual Father of the Church. No sooner will they go out that men will cry against God and the Church, a true day of scourges.”
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(May 3, 1877)
Our Lord: “My victim, listen, My cross has been for you a treasure of graces and lights, it will rest one day in this small corner of land I have chosen and blessed.”
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