Thursday 31 January 2019

#140 Prophecies: Special Messenger of God to the Count of Chambord - the 'Impure Victory' of the Tricolor - the Count's Death

Marie-Julie Jahenny predicts a special messenger 'charged with the commands of the Lord' will visit the Count of Chambord, she then predicts his death and the victory of the Tricolour of the Revolution, but that death is not the end with the promise of a 'thanksgiving'. The White Flag will win in the end.


(Image: Henry V, the Count of Chambord)




Ecstasy date March 15, 1882 –




"The prince of the earth is worthy of honour and praise because of his great confidence and the great Faith he has in his expectations, because of the whiteness that he loves and prefers to all other colours, without his heart expecting it, the Lord has reserved for him many great words of grace and power that will be delivered by a messenger of the earth, charged with the commands of the Lord. Before the tongue remains motionless, before his complete rest, (i.e., before this prince's death) the Lord has great dispatches (i.e. messages / wisdom-laden words) to drop from his mouth, under the hand of His servants, for he who has not called of God in vain, he who is not acclaimed by a true number, triumphs of impure colours they will rise in France and cause them to flutter in its entire length and width. You, friends of a great destiny, you will bring to meet him the whiteness that his heart loves so much. The wind will fly its banner and, by far, his eyes wet with tears of thanksgiving, the banner will float on his tomb on the day of his religious funeral."


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Observations / explanation: this prophecy foretells Henry V, Count of Chambord's death – which occurred a year and five months later, August 24, 1883.

This prophecy by Marie-Julie Jahenny has considerable history hidden behind it, both secular and sacred, which will be broken down here sentence by sentence:

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1) "The prince of the earth is worthy of honour and praise because of his great confidence and the great Faith he has in his expectations, because of the whiteness that he loves and prefers to all other colours”


This reference of 'white' is not only the colour of purity, but also a symbol of the absolute monarchy of France symbolised by the White Flag of the Fleur du Lys which features so prominently in Marie-Julie's prophecies concerning the arrival of the Henry V, the Miracle Child, the Count of Chambord, as the Great Monarch.

The White Flag is much more than a symbol. We must look back at the first King of France Clovis I to understand its significance.


Before the time Clovis came to power in the latter half of the 5th Century, Europe consisted of multiple tribal kingdoms and principalities, which included the land of the Franks (the future France). A number of these tribal kingdoms were still under pagan rule, while the majority of them were converting to Arianism, a heretical doctrine denounced centuries earlier at the first ever Ecumenical Council of the Church at Nicea 325 AD. The Arians believed that while Christ was the appointed saviour of mankind, they denied that He was of the same nature as God, declaring He was created. According to the Arians, Christ was nothing more than a highly favoured mortal man and was not divine. This reinterpretation of the Saviour was completely against the Traditional teaching of the Church upon which the Christian Faith rested, and was in fact considered an Antichrist doctrine, for according to the teachings of the Apostle St. John, those who attempted to deny the divine or the human nature of Christ were forerunners of the Antichrist, hence the condemnation of Arian doctrines by the Church. However, while the Council of Nicea declared that the divinity of Christ was an article of faith, the Arian heresy continued to spread rapidly as mentioned.


Returning to Clovis I, although not an Arian, he was still a pagan who was married to the Roman Catholic princess of Burgundy, St. Clotilde. Despite her attempts to convert him, Clovis remained sceptical of the Christian faith until threatened with war and the loss of his kingdom to the Alemanni tribes near Cologne. As tradition states, he made a pact with Christ that if he won the battle, he would become baptised.


He defeated the Alemanni and fulfilled his oath to become a Roman Catholic Christian. On his baptism Christmas Day 506 AD over which St. Remy presided, his conversion was sealed by a miracle ~ the Holy Spirit appeared in the form of a dove bringing sacred chrism for Clovis’ coronation and a lily from Heaven, a symbolic representation of the Trinity, the doctrine of which the Arians rejected. Henceforth the sign of the French monarchy became the Fleur-de-Ly.

(Image: St. Remy baptising King Clovis I)


This miracle from Heaven was of paramount importance to the establishment of the kingdom for this was no mere recurrence of the conversion of the Emperor Constantine who only saw a cross in the sky. Clovis had received heavenly-made oil, his anointing mirrored the anointing of kings as seen in the Old Testament, such as King David’s anointing by the prophet Samuel and King Solomon by Zadok the priest. Furthermore, with the appearance of the Holy Spirit, Clovis’s miraculous anointing and ascension to the throne was seen to be a metaphorical symbol of Christ’s anointing by the Holy Spirit.

P. Christian Klieger notes the tremendous impact Clovis’ conversion and anointing had on Western Europe:


“Rather than being a Roman emperor who was divine in his own right, the new universal ruler served in Christ’s stead on earth, and ruled by His right. (...) The oil brought forth by the dove was the new Palladium, the source of all legitimacy. It was to serve as the model of absolute monarchy in Western Europe until the Enlightenment. (…) While Constantine was consecrated by St. Sylvester, and later Charlemagne by Pope Leo, throughout the history of the West, only Christ and Clovis are witnessed as being anointed by a literal epiphany of the Holy Spirit.   The ‘Divine Right (of Kings)’ of all European monarchies has its origin in the anointing of Clovis. More than any other action, the baptism symbolised the fusion of Greco-Roman, German, and Judeo-Christian worlds in a new concept of universal empire. The Sacred Ampulla itself (the vessel of oil brought by the Dove) became among the most holy relics of the French monarchy, securing for the king the style, ‘Most Christian’ and ‘Eldest Son of the Church’ until the very end of the Ancien Régime. The French monarchy had become one of the great pillars of the Papacy. (...) Clovis’ embracing of orthodox Roman Catholicism was a severe blow to the Arianism of Gaul (i.e. ancient France). The Frankish king’s profession (of faith) helped establish the primacy of the Bishop of Rome in matters Christian.” - (P. Christian Klieger, The Microstates of Europe: Designer Nations in a Post-Modern World. United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2013, pp. 139-140.)



We may ask why Clovis was so favoured with an epiphany of the Holy Spirit? Tradition also states his royal bloodline had descended from the Tribe of Judah and the House of David, and thus the Kings of France were believed to be distant descendants of Christ’s Royal House: a sign that Christ’s kingdom was indeed visibly present on earth in both the Church and in a holy secular empire established by Heaven itself.


In conclusion, the French monarchy, a blessed and divinely-favoured blood line, had saved Europe from perilous heresy and was paramount in establishing Roman Catholicism in Europe. According to the prophecies by the prophets and mystics, including Marie-Julie Jahenny, the last of this favoured royal line would also come forth out of exile in a miraculous manner to save Europe and the Church one last time before the appearance of the Antichrist.



Henry V, the Count of Chambord was the last direct descendant of the Bourbon Kings, and, also the last direct descendant of St. Louis IX. After the July Revolution of 1830, the throne was snatched from him by a usurper, but the country finally agreed to recognise him and give him the throne years later. However, Henry boldly refused their offer to become a constitutional king under the Tricolor of the Revolution that had brought in the destruction of the Ancien Regime and the persecution of the Church in France.



Fully aware of the sacred duty he had to defend the faith, and, the sacred nation of the Divine Right of Kings granted to his royal line, the Count of Chambord declared “I will never consent to be king of the Revolution.” He would not be king unless under the White Flag, which meant a restoration of the absolute monarchy and the France to become once more known as a Catholic country, not a secular state.


The government refused to give in to that demand, and Henry was forced to go into exile again – to the ridicule of the those who favored the Republic and the bewilderment of the Catholic world – he gave up the kingdom over a 'flag'? A piece of cloth?


Even today historians tend to mock the 'reluctant' pretender to the French throne all for a 'piece of cloth' – but as we know from Marie-Julie's prophecies--this was part of Heaven's plan. Our Lord revealed Henry was to be mocked for defending the White Flag and all it stood for, mocked in his kingship just as He was mocked before Herod, a usurper, and forced to wear white as a badge of mockery.


In the prophecy posted above, Heaven sees Henry's faithfulness to the White Flag, despite all mockery, despite all obstacles, even if it meant losing the throne, even to the point of death. As a result he will receive a great consolation as the next sentence shows:

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2)“... without his heart expecting it, the Lord has reserved for him many great words of grace and power that will be delivered by a messenger of the earth, charged with the commands of the Lord.”


I personally cannot help but think that this is a prophecy foretelling the famous visit St. John Bosco made to Henry while in exile in Frohsdorf.

In the following year after this prophecy by Marie-Julie, Henry fell gravely ill and doctors could not pinpoint the cause. Death was imminent. Devoted to St. Bosco's work, Henry had supported it, but now, he begged for the holy man to see him in person, to cure him if possible. St. John Bosco, who was so busy, refused the entreaties several times until he was presented with the a plea by Henry's eloquent messenger that St. John Bosco could no longer refuse – if St. Francis of Paola the Wonderworker could no longer refuse King Louis XI's pleas to see him by his deathbed out of charity's sake, how could he refuse such a request to the royal descendant who pleads for the same charity?

(As a side-note which is fascinating: St. Francis of Paola had astounding predictions concerning the Great Monarch's future rule, and, St. John Bosco had a prophetic dream of the Warrior Great King as well!)


At last, St. John Bosco went and arrived in Frohsdorf mid July 1883, and, it is reported they privately spoke at length – he told him that he had a feeling this sickness would not end in death, and to pray to Our Lady Help of Christians if he wished to be cured However, he must be prepared to accept whatever God sends:


(…) St. John Bosco's expressions of hope were always followed by the thought that life and death are in the hands of God, King of kings and Lord of lords, and that everyone, small and great, had to conform to His inscrutable will. A man of lively faith, solidly religious, the count (Henry) fully agreed, and said that, if Divine Providence should enable him to continue to serve France, he would not refuse the task, but if it pleased God to call him to eternity, he was in every way and in everything submissive to the divine decree. Such holy sentiments of the count and the edifying virtue of the countess left Don Bosco deeply moved” (The Biographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco by Rev. Eugenio Ceria, S.D.B., Salesiana Publishers, New York, 1882, p. 292)


To the amazement of Henry's court and the public at large, Henry immediately began to improve. It was declared a miracle and attributed to St. John Bosco and the intercession of Our Lady Help of Christians. However, Henry, who had a love for hunting refused to stay in bed one day and while not yet while not yet fully recovered he injured his health when his hunting rifle recoiled into his sensitive stomach on August 4. He grew ill and died not long after.


This sudden turn of events was a shock – St. John Bosco was pressed for an answer, and even he seemed perturbed by the event:



“One day Father [Charles] Bellarny's asked Don Bosco how he could have asserted that the count's illness was not unto death, although the count died. He repeated his question three times, and only on the last did he get an answer. Don Bosco, somewhat annoyed, replied, "God gave him back his health for France and not for himself, nor to go hunting.... His place was in France. The countess always kept him from going there because she feared a recurrence of the horrors of 1793.... The specter of the scaffold terrified her." Perhaps from these words we may rightly infer that Don Bosco too, along with so many other Church leaders, did not go along with the prince's scruples concerning the flag . (…)” (The Biographical Memoirs of St. John Bosco, p. 279)



St. John Bosco could not understand this reversal, nor why Henry should remain so adamant in staying true to the White Flag and lose the throne in the process, it appears that spiritual knowledge was not given to him concerning this despite having a prophetic dream regarding the Warrior Great Monarch and a 'White Banner', but Marie-Julie Jahenny's prophecies shows, Heaven was pleased with Henry for his devotion to the Flag, and, that she foretold beforehand by a year and a half that Henry was to be given the consolation to prepare for death via the 'messenger of the earth' who came charged with 'commands from the Lord'. As we saw, Henry was so prepared to accept death if it came that it even moved St. John Bosco who come to console him.



She also foretold that after Henry's death, the 'impure colours' would flutter under across all of France, and indeed, Henry's death sealed France's temporary fate as a Republic under the Tricolor.



  1. ... Before the tongue remains motionless, before his complete rest, (i.e., before this prince's death) the Lord has great dispatches (i.e. messages / wisdom-laden words) to drop from his mouth, under the hand of His servants, for he who has not called of God in vain, he who is not acclaimed by a true number, triumphs of impure colours they will rise in France and cause them to flutter in its entire length and width.





The odd thing about this prophecy is that it not only predicts his death, but there will be tears of thanksgiving – when friends of a great destiny will bring the white flag to him. We have a present prophecy, and one of a future thanksgiving, then of a present death:


  1. You, friends of a great destiny, you will bring to meet him the whiteness that his heart loves so much. The wind will fly its banner and, by far, his eyes wet with tears of thanksgiving, the banner will float on his tomb on the day of his religious funeral."


Why this odd flipping back and forth between the present, the future 'thanksgiving' and then back to the present 'tomb'?


Because Marie-Julie Jahenny has left us clues throughout her prophecies – clues and direct revelations that ALL her prophecies STILL refer to Henry V the 'Miracle Child', and that can be no other than the Count of Chambord, Henry V the 'Miracle Child'. In fact Heaven told her so, that ALL the prophecies refer to him. The very fact she was told she would not see his reign until AFTER SHE WAS IN HEAVEN, (she died in 1941), means death is not the end of him. He will come some time after the 'Pillar of Mud' is swept away, (i.e. President Sarkozy of France?) for she was told he will be RETURNED to his subjects, he will come during a time of wonders that will resemble Good Friday and the Day of Judgement, (the dead will rise), that the Lily will RESURRECT, (the King was also literally described as 'the lily' in a prophecy of hers), and that there will be many resurrections when the France is restored for the Age of Peace.


The Count was born on St. Michael's day, and notice the future prophecy he gave to Marie-Julie Jahenny for September 6, 1890:


St. Michael: “ … Let them say and affirm to men that he will never return. Listen to them and ask them if they are prophets! (…) The one who waits, it is the one that they call the miracle child. This kingdom has not yet known his name, (i.e. France refused to officially recognise 'Henry V' as king), but much later it will know the depths of his heart. He is reserved for the great epochs."


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Friday 11 January 2019

#139 Prophecy: The Jews Will See Signs of Terror in the Sky When the Great Monarch Arrives



Ecstasy Date February 28, 1882


Marie-Julie Jahenny: “In the sun, I read:

(Our Lord's words) 'My word is eternal. I have made My severe judgement. Now I tell My people, and when the time comes, I will move the world.'


I read:


'In My eternal wisdom, I have the design to reserve the life of an immense number of Jews because, from the day of My joy, I want them confounded. The wicked eye of all these souls will remain open, because I want it that they see My power. I reserve for them to see, with their eyes, the radiant star that (i.e. The Great Monarch) I will make to exit from the depths of exile, in a terrible storm of fire and under the signs of My anger. All the firmament will have similar traits to those that My Father launched over the world, when I offered to redeem My people.'   (I.e the day will resemble the signs that occurred on Good Friday.)


I still read:


'In the midst of this terror, everyone will be like the ant that comes out of his lair ... From everywhere, people will join with this perfidious group that, now, leads the things of the earth with a decision and iniquity that has no name … They will perish miserably at the hands of My anger or under the envoy of cruel diseases.


Then I will heal the wounds of the kingdom; I will render it fertile. After that the Saviour (The Great Monarch) will enter his reign, I will sanctify by abundant dew, the earth defiled, and penitence will efface the marks made by the feet of the wicked.' .”


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(Observations: Marie-Julie receives this revelation in a 'mystic sun' in which she can 'read'. (See post #56 - Marie-Julie's mystic sun.)

 This text appears to be a repeat of an earlier revelation given to Marie-Julie regarding the Jews, or, a more detailed version of it.  (See post #125  The Conversion of the Jews and the Great Monarch – Rome will be Terrorized for Three and a Half Years  )

We note that Our Lord says he will astound the Jews with the signs He will send – of fire and anger. He describes them as having a 'wicked eye', obviously for remaining obstinately blind to the fact that He is the Messiah. In other prophecies given to Marie-Julie Jahenny, it was revealed the evil ones who will attempt to stop the Great Monarch and his armies will be 'blinded' and will not be able to stop him, but here, it says the eyes of the Jews will 'remain open' to see him. We can assume therefore that the King's enemies may not only be spiritually blinded regarding the time of his arrival, but also literally blinded, except for the Jews so that the glory of Christ may be revealed in his royal servant.


The Signs Christ will send when it comes time to cleanse the earth and announce the arrival of the Great Monarch will resemble that of the day of the Crucifixion, the Day Christ offered Himself to redeem His people. The Sky grew dark, the earth shook, and the dead arose and appeared to many. A 'blood moon' also appeared. However, Christ said these signs will also band the evil ones together, they will join with the 'perfidious group' that NOW leads things of earth. However, Christ has promised all will be restored through the Great Monarch who is destined to bring the Age of Peace.



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Wednesday 12 December 2018

#138 Do Not Trample Upon the Cross – The Great Monarch will Come After Marie-Julie Jahenny's Death – He Will Come to La Fraudais -- He Will Renew the Kingdom


Message to Marie-Julie Jahenny (Febraury 2, 1882).

"My children, I ask you never to trample upon the Cross, not to follow the example of a huge crowd that will prefer to damn its soul to save its body. Your refusal will soften your executioners."

(Observations: when the persecutions break out, many will abjure the Faith to save themselves, trampling upon the cross will be one of the conditions demanded. The Faithful are told never to desecrate a cross, instead, courageously refuse. Do not give up the Faith!)

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Ecstasy date, February 4, 1882 (“The Breton Stigmatist”, p. 56)


Our Lord to Marie-Julie: "You will see from Heaven the triumph of the Church looming over the forehead of My real servant Henri de La Croix (Henry of the Cross-the name of the Great Monarch). His name is written in the golden Book." He then added, "After this triumph the faithful Pastor will place his consecrated hand on the head of the one of Heaven will have lead and brought in a miraculous manner."


(Important Observations and Reminders: earlier prophecies given to Marie-Julie Jahenny have already revealed the identity of the Great Monarch – he is Henri V, the one called the “Miracle Child”, which could be none other than Henri Duke of Bordeaux and Count of Chambord, also known as Henri V and the “Miracle Child” he was the legitimate pretender to the throne of France.

The important thing to note, he was ALIVE at the time of the earlier revelations, and also for this prophecy on February 4, 1882. Note it also states Marie-Julie would see his triumph FROM HEAVEN. She would not see his triumph until AFTER HER DEATH. She died on March 4, 1941.


In her ecstasies she was told that ALL the prophecies regarding the promised Great Monarch refer to the exiled “Miracle Child” - he was reserved for the great epochs – he would be 'RETURNED to his subjects' amidst signs and wonders that would not be seen again until the Day of Judgement, and the signs of his return will resemble the day when Christ died on the Cross. As we know, the sky darkened, the earth shook, and the DEAD AROSE AND APPEARED TO MANY. She was also told France would 'resurrect', there would be many 'resurrections', the 'lily' would 'resurrect', and in one instance the King was also called the 'lily'. See Marie-Julie Jahenny and Henri V, the Great Catholic Monarch, click here.)



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February 9, 1882 (“The Breton Stigmatist”, pp. 56-57)


Our Lord: "My design is that after he (the Great Monarch) has received the holy blessing he goes with My noble defendants carrying the white banner to the place where the messages of salvation came from (i.e. the cottage of Marie-Julie). The chosen one of My power will set down the white banner, the sign of victory."

(Observations: the Great King will come to La Fraudais and set down the White Banner. Where is La Fraudais? Click here.)


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Ecstasy date February 9, 1882

Our Lord: "According to the longings of My power, you will come, from time to time, sustain the hope of My apostles and my servants; until the man of their desires will finally lift the veil … I will send occasionally, the good news.

From the heights of Heaven, you will descend just to the middle of My servants who have to work twice that of today.


(Observations: Apparently, Our Lord has promised that Marie-Julie will be permitted to come back to earth after her death and grant consolations to those who await the coming of the Great Monarch. Possibly, these faithful servants will have to work “twice as hard” because the faith will be persecuted and it will not be as easy to practise the faith as before during her time on earth.

It is not unlike Pharaoh's harsh command to the Jews When they were approaching the end of their centuries of bondage, he declared that straw would no longer be brought to them and they had to search for their own straw to make their daily tally of bricks, plus the number had to be the same, thus increasing their workload and hardship. He did this so they would have no time to go and make sacrifice to God or believe Moses' “lying” words.

Therefore he (Pharaoh) commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying: You shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: for they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfil them: that they may not regard lying words.” (Exodus 5: 6-9)

We can learn a lesson from this: when the times of persecution come from those in the world who are more interested in building a worldly kingdom, praying and sacrificing to God will seem “useless”, an “idle” occupation, including the most important sacrifice, the Mass! The world will try and keep us so busy, either with frittering away our time with the latest fads and amusements, or overloading us with work just to survive that we end up having no time for God. It is interesting that an article entitled “Thoughts of God Make Us Slackers, A Study Suggests” from www.livescience.com by Jennifer Welsh (October 29, 2011) appeared on Yahoo News declaring that certain “studies” indicate people who think of God are “lazy”, and yet, they can readily withstand temptation.

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Ecstasy date February 14, 1882

Our Lord: "From Heaven, you will see the triumph of the Church hovering over the forehead of My true servant Henry of the Cross, (The Great Monarch) He will comfort the destitute, renew the devastated priesthood, weakened and fallen like a branch under the saw of the worker. His charity will renew the priesthood, he will raise the statues of My Mother, he will remount the crosses (that were) insulted and cut into pieces."


(Observations: again, another prophecy that the Great Monarch would come after Marie-Julie's death, judging from the words “from Heaven you will see”. The Great King will renew the kingdom torn apart by civil war and religious persecution.)

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Thursday 6 December 2018

#137 Basilica of Sacre Coeur will be Used by the Impious - Church of Our Lady of Victories will be Spared – Our Lady of Victories – Marie-Julie Jahenny and the Link to Fatima

Ecstasy date January 27, 1882 (“The Breton Stigmatist”, Book, p.32)


Message to Marie-Julie:  "But woe to the pastors who abandon the flock."




Same Day


January 27, 1882, (“The Breton Stigmatist”, p. 50)


Our Lord: "My Montmartre Sanctuary (i.e. the Sacre Coeur basilica) is already destined to serve as a theatre for the impious and all those involved with human laws." Also, "It would not be long before the place of prayer of Saint Geneviéve would become a theatre for dances and the most infernal crimes..."





Our Lady of Victories further told Marie-Julie: "The sanctuary of Our Lady of Victories would resist the cannon-balls, the gun fire of the instruments of the world and that the miraculous protection of Heaven would preserve it in the midst of the debris."





(Our Lady of Victories, Paris.)





(Interior, altar dedicated to Our Lady, the Refuge of Sinners).












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I believe it would be apropos to include here the history of Our Lady as Our Lady of Victories, and why this shrine will be protected as a sign of Her maternal care.



The History of Our Lady of Victories



Victory will come from Devotion to the Rosary

and the Immaculate Heart of Mary




The first chapel ever dedicated to Our Lady of Victories was built by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester after the Battle of Muret, September 12, 1213. Simon de Montfort, a Christian Crusader, defeated King Peter II of Aragon (now in Spain), thus uniting the Languedoc region to France, (the county of Toulouse). Obviously, Our Lady was forming the Kingdom of France at an early date.


However, the title of Our Lady of Victories was not instituted until centuries later. During the 16th century, the Muslim Ottoman invaders marched as far as Vienna, had taken over lands as far as the Danube, and were threatening to invade the rest of Europe. They had the most fearsome fleet on the Mediterranean; after the fall of Cyprus, it was feared they would next invade Italy and France.


Pope St. Pius V promoted the Holy League to fight against the Turks, a coalition of the major European maritime forces. Led by John of Austria, they engaged in battle off the coast of Western Greece on October 7, 1571 and defeated the Ottoman fleet, they had not been defeated at sea in over a century.


On that day as the battle took place, St. Pius the V held a rosary procession at St. Peters, and the Holy League attributed the victory to Our Lady.






(Image: St. Pius V and his vision of the Battle of Lepanto)


In thanksgiving, St. Pius V instituted in the Feast of Our Lady of Victories. In 1573, Pope Gregory XIII changed the title of this feast-day to "Feast of the Holy Rosary". This feast was extended by Pope Clement XII to the whole of the Latin Rite, inserting it into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1716, and assigning it to the first Sunday in October. Pope St. Pius X changed the date to October 7 in 1913, as part of his effort to restore celebration of the liturgy of the Sundays.



Hence, the celebration of Our Lady of Victories is on the Feast of the Rosary, and the Feast of the Rosary honours Our Lady of Victories. Our Lady seemed to strengthen this association with regards to Fatima … .






Fatima and Our Lady of Victories






      Not many Catholics are aware that centuries before Our Lady appeared as Queen of the Rosary in Fatima, an unusual event happened at the Cova da Iria. 


In 1383, when King Fernando I of Portugal died, he left no male legitimate heir to the throne, only his daughter Princess Beatrice, who was married to King John I of Castille. Hence, Portugal was on the point of losing its sovereignty to Spain. The Portuguese nobles decided it was better to defend the sovereignty of their country and elected Fernando's illegitimate brother to the throne, John, Master of Aviz. St. Nuno, a valiant knight, supported this decision, and was made Commander of the King's Army and the Third Count of Ourém. The Spanish began to press their rights and war ensued.



On their way to the decisive Battle of Aljubarrota (August 1385) they passed through the Cova da Iria. St. Nuno suddenly stopped the King and the army, declaring that something marvellous would happen there in the future. Of course, we now know it was the apparitions of Fatima. The King and St. Nuno knelt at the spot and promised Our Lady that if she would grant them victory and save the kingdom, they would each build a monastery in her honour. They won the battle, and King John began the Dominican monastery in the town of Batalha (Battle) in 1386 and dedicated it to our Lady of Victories, (about a fifteen minute drive from Fatima), while St. Nuno built a Carmalite monastery in Lisbon, which he entered after giving up all his wealth, lands and titles. Sadly, Nuno's monastery was destroyed during the great earthquake in Lisbon, 1755.






Our Lady of Victories Monestary, Batalha 

St. Nuno's statue is to the right











The Battle of Aljubarotta (August 14, 1385)




St. Nuno is not widely known outside of Portugal. He is often called the “Precursor to Fatima” because of his great devotion to Our Lady, the Rosary, and the Brown Scapular. We recall Our Lady also appeared in Fatima as Our Lady of Mount Carmel with the Brown Scapular. Of interest, St. Nuno is the founder of the House of Braganca, the Royal House of Portugal, he is the father of Kings! The House of Braganca survives to this day.







(Image: St. Nuno after entering Carmel)





 
 








 (Image: Our Lady of Victories statue at Batalha).










Our Lady of Victories, Queen of the Rosary, therefore shows her powerful protection over nations and especially monarchies.



Not satisfied with showing the association between victories and her Rosary, Our Lady also wanted devotion to her Immaculate Heart to be made known and charged Sr. Lucia of Fatima to spread devotion to her Immaculate Heart and the practise of the Five First Saturdays. Compare this with the history of Our Lady of Victories Shrine in Paris:





Our Lady of Victories Shrine in Paris (Notre Dame des Victoires) 




In 1619 the Discalced Augustinians (colloquially referred to as the "Petits Pères") established their convent, Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, on three hectares of land they had purchased, the Bourse (Market) located at the intersection of the Place des Petits-Pères and Rue de la Banque.

On December 8, 1629 the foundations were blessed by Archbishop Jean-François Gondi. The next day, King Louis XIII himself laid the cornerstone in the presence of the Court's 'seigneurs' and the city officials. Remembering the Battle of Lepanto, King Louis XIII promised to fund the construction on the condition that it be dedicated to his victory over the heretical Protestants at La Rochelle, which he attributed to the intercession of the Blessed Mother.


The first church being too small, reconstruction commenced in 1656 according to the plans of Pierre Le Muet. Libéral Bruant, Robert Boudin, and Gabriel Leduc oversaw this work. The new church, not yet completed, was consecrated in 1666. Work was finalized in 1737 under the supervision of Sylvain Cartaud. He oversaw the expansion of the nave, the construction of the façade as well as the construction of the transept's striking spherical roof. The sanctuary is graced by several paintings by the French painter Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771).

However, it was seized during the various political Masonic upheavals in France, the church was converted into the home of the national lottery and a stock exchange during the Directory. A large garden and a double-cloister existed at the site until the Revolution. At that time, they were confiscated and fell into disuse. Although the church had been returned to a place of worship in 1809, the remnants of the monastery were destroyed in 1858 and a police station as well as an office for the mayor of the arrondissement were constructed in their place.


In the 1830s, the task of re-establishing parish life in the church fell to Fr. Charles Eléonore Dufriche Desgenettes. However, due to its location in a business district, it attracted few parishioners which resulted in, among other things, financial difficulties. Having very few parishioners attending Mass, Fr. Charles thought he had failed in his ministry and wanted to resign his functions in Our Lady of Victories when on December 3, 1836, he heard a voice as he was about to begin Mass: "Consecrate your parish to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary." At the time, this devotion was only just beginning, and he was sceptical. However, he heard the voice again after Mass, and decided he had better pay heed to the message.

He received approval from the Archbishop of Paris and publicised the consecration Mass for eight days later, December 11, 1836. Not expecting more than the usual 40 attendees, he was surprised to see 500 people arrive!

Encouraged by the response, that same day he constituted the Association of the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary for the conversion of sinners, an association which became an archconfraternity in 1838 by the decision of Pope Gregory XVI.

The numbers of parishioners and pilgrims continued to increase, the Shrine became the powerhouse of prayer during the 19th century as evidenced by the thousands of ex-voto offerings.   Many of the famous French Catholics of the period maintained a connection to the Church. These included Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, Ven. Francis Libermann and the refounders of the Holy Ghost Fathers and a whole host of Foreign Missions seminarians and priests, including St. Theophane Venard. Saint John Henry Newman went there to give thanks for his conversion, which had been the subject of prayer there. Later, the young Therese Martin (St. Therese of the Little Flower) prayed before the same statue for Our Lady's help in realising her vocation. As we have seen above, Marie-Julie was told this shrine would be spared during the destruction of Paris.


Our Lady had promised that the Rosary was the weapon that would drive back enemies, root out heresies, and protect the faithful. It is inextricably linked to her Immaculate Heart and to her title as Our Lady of Victories. In union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, she is Protector of Catholic nations and absolute monarchies, we have heard through Marie-Julie, Our Lady will help restore Catholic France and the monarchy under the Great Monarch.


It is interesting that Our Lord revealed to Marie-Julie that His IMMACULATE Mother will decide the time for the appearance of the Great King, and, that Our Lady revealed to Marie-Julie Jahenny in 1904 one of the blasphemies against Her Immaculate Heart a little over 20 years before the revelation of the Five First Saturday devotions to Sr. Lucia of Fatima in 1925.  Sr. Lucia was later told the precise blasphemies by Our Lord in 1930.

   Marie-Julie Jahenny learned what would be known later as the Fourth Blasphemy - the blasphemy of little children not taught to love the Immaculate Heart of their Mother.



On February 9, 1904 Our Lady to Marie-Julie Jahenny:


 " My beloved children, all is engaged in an irreparable loss, I mean the salvation of souls of children. The nourishment of these poor little souls should be for them the bread of love of their Immaculate Queen, the Queen of Heaven. (That is, children are no longer given this 'bread of love', they are not taught to love her.) I suffer to see these souls as pastures delivered to the enemy of the salvation of souls; it is the goodness of my Divine on that Satan takes to himself and to appropriate it, (i.e. Satan takes advantage of God's mercy to the earth) he has his supporters in every corner on the Earth. I despair, yes, I despair of saving those souls without immense peril and multiplied souls and bodies.


Marie-Julie intercedes and the Blessed Virgin answered:

“After the delivery of young adolescent souls to Satan, the enemy of souls, I mean to say that most of these children have entered the path of corruption and these souls have not received a drop of this perfume of my virtues of purity; it is in very immense pain, because if you saw the number, you would be frightened and even struck as if by a mortal blow.


The frightening part is Marie-Julie was told that during these evil days children will be set on the path to perdition before they reach the age of reason because parents have failed to raise their children in the faith and to love Our Lord and His Mother.


 
Marie-Julie Jahenny was also told that the devotion to Immaculate Mary would be one of the 'Three Shelters' that would protect faithful souls during the times of the chastisements, and that during the Three Days of Darkness, being close to an image of Her would also help lessen the terror we will experience in those days, no doubt a sign of our devotion to her Holy images will be in reparation for the Fifth Blasphemy as well. (See more about the Three Days here.)

As we know, Our Lady told Sr. Lucia of Fatima that the Age of Peace and the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart will not occur until devotion to her Heart spreads and reparation made for the blasphemies committed against Her Immaculate Heart via the Five First Saturdays. The prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny and the visions of Fatima are therefore interlinked – as Our Lady said to Sr. Lucia,  the Age of Peace would come AS SOON AS A SUFFICIENT NUMBER of people were DOING WHAT SHE ASKED.




We will not have the Age of Peace and Victory of the Cross via the Great Monarch until we pray for it, pray and help spread devotion to the Rosary, as well as spreading devotion to the Immaculate the Heart of Mary, and make reparation for the five blasphemies committed against Her Immaculate Heart, especially through the Five First Saturday Devotion. Learn more about the Five First Saturdays Devotion, click here.


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