Showing posts with label St. Deusdedit. Show all posts
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Tuesday 7 November 2017

#89 St. Deusdedit – Prophecy of Pius IX's Canonization – a Warning to Pope Leo XIII and Angelic Pontiff Prophecy




St. Deusdedit gives details of his struggles – Prophecy of Pius IX's Canonization: it will stop calamities destined to strike Rome – a Warning to Pope Leo XIII and Angelic Pontiff Prophecy – Lesson on Spiritual Detachment from All things, How to live Heaven on Earth





Ecstasy of October 24, 1878


I am Pope St. Dieudonné. (Also known as Deusdedit and Adeodatus I) I come to say a word on behalf of Our Lord.


Dear brothers, we suffer everywhere and the cross is seeded under our steps. It rises like a great harvest, it alone blooms at all times. Neither winter nor the ice stops its flowering. I ruled on a Pontifical Throne, I ruled in peace, I ruled in pain. There is always two steps: the summer and winter. I suffered cruelly for the support and the cause of the Church. At every instant we talked and we cried. The storm and the disorders have risen against the Church and its Head. But I did not falter an instant. I governed the Church of God with tears.


I myself asked for the support and comfort (i.e.for the Church?). But all vanished at my word. Everything seemed to run away to allow all the cruel enemies of God to approach, to break the Church and its Throne. I strongly maintained the Holy Church and my duty, seriously threatened. I heard the whistle of the instruments of death all around my prison. Armed with the Crucifix and the statue of the Queen of Heaven, I conquered, I won over my weakness. I was victorious after a terrible struggle.


Almost all the representatives of God have suffered and have been martyrs, held prisoner. Let us pray for our Brother and Father who reigns at the moment (i.e., Pope Leo XIII reigned during the time of this ecstasy). The pain and grief hanging over the Church and the Holy See. The venerated remains of the man who died after so much pain and tears and after a long captivity of pain, tears and imprisonment, (i.e Pius IX) are able to provide, by the force of his holiness, the brilliant visible miracle for the one that currently reigns.”


(Note: Pius IX was forced to flee to Gaeta from 1848 to 1850 and then later considered himself a prisoner in the Vatican to protest against the confiscation of the Papal States. He died in 1878. See post #44 - Prophecy of the Papacy - A Pope in Prison   Of interest, it seems St. Deusdedit is predicting Pius IX would cause a miracle to console Leo XIII. What it was is currently unknown, it could have been a private miracle, the story of which may one day come to light.)



St. Deusdedit continues: “For the holy Pope Pius IX will be elevated one day to a very high sanctity and this sanctity of love and tenderness will stop terrible calamities that are reserved for the Roman city. (I.e. a prediction Pius IX would be canonised, he has already been declared Blessed since 2,000 AD. Apparently, his canonisation will prevent a terrible calamity from striking Rome.)


St. Deusdedit: "Today, in this city, (Rome?) we hear deaf sounds, we see in Heaven these preparations and these arrangements under the odious government of this man, this race, which he has already made suffer so much, so much wailing. Apparently, he promised to support, defend, and provide the reinforcement and support for the captive martyr. But in the bottom of his heart, he thinks otherwise. In the bottom of his heart, a dark secret is hidden and is veiled from the eyes of humans but not those of God!”

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Note:“This man” this could be a double prophecy:

    First prophecy: about a government official who was promising assistance but secretly plotting against Leo XIII. Leo XIII had many struggles to contend with regarding the anti-clerical government of Rome and in Italy. Wikipedia gives the following information: “In light of climate hostile to the Church, Leo continued the policies of Pius IX towards Italy, without major modifications. In his relations with the Italian state, Leo XIII continued the Papacy's self-imposed incarceration in the Vatican stance and continued to insist that Italian Catholics should not vote in Italian elections or hold elected office. (...) He had to defend the freedom of the Church against what Catholics considered Italian persecutions and attacks in the area of education, expropriation and violation of Catholic Churches, legal measures against the Church and brutal attacks, culminating in anticlerical groups attempting to throw the body of the deceased Pope Pius IX into the Tiber river on 13 July 1881. The Pope even considered moving his residence to Trieste or Salzburg, two cities in Austria, an idea that the Emperor Franz Joseph I gently rejected."


    Second prophecy: and this could be a prediction concerning the Angelic Pontiff who will also suffer imprisonment and a spiritual martyrdom like Pius IX and Leo XIII. He will have allies that will play him false.

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St. Deusdedit continues: “Dear brothers, we have nothing to do but pray and submit for the hour of God is determined. Every man is no more than a grain of dust. To make a miracle of peace and reconciliation in all these threatened powers, (I.e. to bring peace in the Church) do not count, do not rely on the arm of flesh because there is only God who can do what He had promised to set free those powers threatened, divided, revolted.


Now, a word of encouragement and love of God.

Dear brothers and sisters, you also had the experience of earth and of Heaven. You searched the earth for that which to console you and you have found grief, bitterness and pain. You have relied on Heaven and you have found a powerful strength and divine consolations that revived in you in the deepest agony, I mean suffering, despair and pain. Nothing, on earth, can truly console the man who loves God richly and liberally. (I.e only love of God alone can bring true consolation.) Is it those weak creatures who are steeped in a little dust and reign on earth for one hour? Is this the strong soul that will find happiness and love? No, it disgusts the soul. The heart feels a repugnance. The rest of the body does not seek and tries to enter (happiness?) by ties and friendship.


If you want to save a lot (of effort), if you want to possess Heaven on earth, flee creatures, flee conversation, stay away from their presence and put yourself in the presence of Him who is Almighty and Eternal. Our souls are suffering from mortal attachments. The crying of the soul is like a pure gold that spreads before the Lord as the aroma of the sweetest perfume. God's love is so powerful, so strong, so united, so sweet and fragrant that to withdraw the soul from the love of God is like plunging it into the mud and corrupt water.


Follow this road of love, live (as) solitaires in love, solitary in the presence of God. It is in solitude that the Shepherd saw Heaven open and the sheep contemplate its beauty. I compare the love of creatures to bird lime because once they are rooted in this mad love that is without merit or profit, they can not withdraw, it is stuck on all sides, the clothes themselves are stuck.

Next sentence, closest translation: All it takes is something very little to become an attachment that is made by human hands. (I.e. even the little things of the earth can become an attachment if we allow them.) One keeps, by this attachment, their soul and heart in deprivation. By this (earthly) love, they hold the gates of Heaven closed ... I am not defending (against) charity, (I.e. because we do need things) on the contrary, but I do not like this attachment, these supports that are only posts of earth. (I.e. stakes tying us to earth. We must be careful not to allow even necessary things of earth tie us down.)

Live in love, sigh to see Love. Glide in love like an eagle that, for strength to rise, approaches the rays of the sun. Be like it, imitate it. We are on the earth to fly to God, to love God and to live His love.

Courage, dear brothers and sisters in the cross! But the fruit will be so beautiful in heaven, once entered, you will wish to be human again to suffer on earth as Heaven is so beautiful, Heaven is so sweet, the happiness of heaven is great! I leave you at the foot of the Cross in the loving tenderness of Jesus and his Sacred and Adorable Wounds that are sources where your souls draw strength …

O Crux Ave, it is at the foot of the Cross where God's love reigns and the happiness of souls ...”


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Note:

A Roman by birth, Saint Deusdedit (St. Adeodatus I) became pope in 615 AD. During his pontificate a pestilence raged in Rome and he worked to relieve the plague-striken. In all ancient Benedictine menologies, he is called a Benedictine monk, but there is no evidence of this. Feast Day Nov. 8

The Webmasters of the “Sanctuary / Friend of Marie-Julie Website” also remind us that: “… the seventh century was a difficult period for the Church as it began to establish its autonomy while new governments formed from the remnants of the larger Empires after their collapse. After waves of persecution of the early centuries, after the great storm of heresies, after the barbarian invasions, the Ship of St. Peter held fast. But other dangers loomed on the horizon: Islam and the ambitions of the powerful of this world. St. Deusdedit, (also known as St. Adeodatus I), was one of the first twenty popes who ruled the Church during the seventh century. Do not forget them! They do not forget us, as this ecstasy shows.”

(Image above: wood reliquary of St. Deusdedit from the 1600s)
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