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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