Newsletter #88 – Our Lady of Mount Carmel USA

Dear Friends and Benefactors,

The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as predicted by Our Lady of Fatima, and others, involves a Great Monarch.
From the time of St. Paul and the early Church Fathers to the present day, there have been prophecies of a Great Catholic King of the Roman Empire who will arrive near the End of Time and restore Catholic order in a world fallen into apostasy, paganism, corruption and moral decay. The influence of this warrior-King will spread worldwide. He will drive out infidels and restore the Catholic Holy Roman Empire.
With him will rule an ‘Angelic’ Pontiff, who will help him to restore what had been ravaged, and Catholic Tradition will once more flourish during a great Age of Peace, the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will be the last and greatest period of the Church. Heresies will cease and the Church will flourish like never before. There will be only One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church under the Pope. After this great era, the people will grow lax and return to their evil ways, and the Antichrist will make his appearance.

DESCENDANT OF SAINT KING LOUIS IX
The Great Monarch will be a descendant of Saint King Louis IX. Let us first examine briefly the biography of this great Catholic King before looking at the prophesied Great Monarch.
The Feast-day of Saint Louis is August 25 coinciding with the date of his death and birth into the glorious kingdom of Heaven. E.L. Delmore writes that St. Louis IX, King of France was born at Poissy on April 25, 1214. His parents were Louis VIII, King of France and Queen Blanche of Castile. He was Capetian king of France from 1226 to 1270. He led the seventh Crusade to the Holy Land in 1248-50. Saint Louis died on August 25, 1270, near Tunis on the eighth Crusade to Tunisia.

All the aspects of this king, his holiness, his reforms, his treatment of the poor, his chivalry, his diplomacy, his fatherhood of all, his patronage of the arts are part of who he was as king.

FORMATION OF A KING – EARLY LIFE

King Louis VIII died on November 7, 1226, and Queen Blanche was declared Regent for her eleven-year old son. Queen Blanche was a person of exceptional beauty and wisdom with zeal for religion as well as brilliance in government. It was her husband’s wish that Queen Blanche serve as Regent and rule France on behalf of Louis until he became of age. Louis IX was crowned King of France at the age of twelve and ruled from 1226 to 1270.

Queen Blanche arranged for the ceremony of Louis’s coronation at Reims when Louis reached the age of thirteen. Louis IX prayed to God for strength and light that he might rule with honor in defense of the Church, and for his people. The young King was crowned on the day fixed, the first Sunday in Advent, by the Bishop of Soissons, the See of Rheims being at the time vacant. In his right hand was placed a royal scepter, the emblem of protection and government; in his left a wand, signifying mercy, with a hand at the top to typify justice. His head was anointed with sacred oil from the vial kept in the abbey of Saint Remy.

Many of the powerful barons of the time did not participate in the ceremony of the coronation. They had another idea in mind to present to the Regent unreasonable demands even while bearing arms in order to take advantage of the situation. They underestimated the keen mind and courage of Queen Blanche who defeated them at every turn with the help of allies. When the rebellious barons tried to block Queen Blanche and St. Louis from returning to Paris after the coronation, the people of Paris marched out with banners flying to protect the King. Thus, Louis passed to his capital along a road lined the whole way with shouting crowds, armed and unarmed, crying on God to give the King long life and save him from his enemies.

St. Louis had the qualities of a great king and a saint. He was skilled in diplomacy as well as in war. He was courageous and possessed of a great mind. He kept before his mind the glory of God and the well-being of his subjects.

The years of his kingship in France were generally peaceful and prosperous and he presided over a growing consolidation and strengthening of the French monarchy.

THE KING’S FAMILY

Queen Blanche kept her son close to her accepting much of the responsibility for his education, especially his religious education. She chose tutors to teach St. Louis subjects suited to the upbringing of a king. He learned to speak Latin, to write with dignity and grace, to speak in public, the arts of government and the military. He learned riding and hunting, biblical history, geography and ancient literature.

Queen Blanche took St. Louis to recite the services of the Divine Office and to attend two Masses each day. She took special care to instill in her young son the highest reverence for matters of virtue and religion. She impressed this on him in a particular manner with her statement: “I love you, my dear son, with all the tenderness a mother is capable of; but I would infinitely rather see you fall down dead at my feet, than that you should ever commit a mortal sin.”

When St. Louis reached the age of twenty he married Margaret, a daughter of the Count of Provence. Blanche chose this bride for her son. “Margaret was as noble as any lady between the seas, and as beautiful, if the poets can be trusted.” St. Louis admired his bride, not only for her beauty, but for her goodness and spirituality and they shared a loving marriage. It was said that “These two walked in the house of God in fellowship and in harmony and engendered most noble offspring, whom this saintly man greatly desired to educate religiously and instruct very often in the love of God…”

St. Louis was a loving husband and father who passed on the spiritual legacy he received from his parents and particularly his mother, Blanche of Castille, to his own children. Their marriage was blessed with eleven children – six daughters and five sons.

St. Louis told his children to have hearts of tenderness and pity to those who are poor and afflicted and to comfort and help them as much as they could.

KING OF JUSTICE – PEACE AND REFORMS

The human ideal of St. Louis was prud’homie, which can perhaps best be defined as conduct which conformed to the code of the honorable man as conceived by the thirteenth century. Among the elements composing it figured courtesy, the spirit of justice, moderation, frankness and a concern to observe the proprieties.

Louis developed fame by making himself available to hear cases at Vincennes seating himself beneath an oak tree in the park. He would invite anyone with a case to settle to come forward and be heard. Should a case involve a dispute between a rich and poor person, Louis would give special attention to the concerns of the poor person.

St. Louis became known near at home and even in foreign countries for his diplomacy and sense of justice and fairness. He resolved feuding between nobles and vassals respecting equally the rights of all parties regardless of rank. Louis was present regularly at the sessions of Parliament. In addition, he occupied himself continually in hearing and deciding cases and complaints, in which he was assisted by the men of experience and integrity whom he kept near him.

St. Louis reformed the courts and the system of taxation to allow all to have a better chance at being treated justly. He addressed the underlying causes of war in order to work toward peace. He encouraged the writing down of laws for sake of clarity for all and introduced the presumption of innocence in criminal procedure. He eliminated trial by combat as well as trial by ordeal replacing them with trial by jury. He served as supreme judge in case of appeals.

When St. Louis defeated King Henry III of England in a battle at Taillebourg, he was so fair in his consideration of the king, Henry came back later and asked Louis for his assistance in administering justice in his behalf. This victory and others gave Louis renown as a valiant warrior and skilled military leader. Eventually foreign monarchs often asked St. Louis to arbitrate their disputes.

Peace for all was the great desire of St. Louis. He endeavoured constantly to appease the disputes of other rulers with their subjects or with one another.

KING OF HOLINESS – ROYAL SANCTITY

St. Louis acquired his religious devotion and habit of personal and liturgical prayer from the teaching and example of his mother. He heard Mass daily and communicated at the six main festivals, with so much devotion that he went on his knees to receive the Eucharist.

The veneration of relics was known to be a form of devotion greatly cherished in the Middle Ages. St. Louis would often visit the sanctuaries of holy relics in his travels. St. Louis became known for his exceptional holiness. Consider the following narrative by Fr. Weninger of being presented with the crown of thorns of Christ by the Emperor of Constantine:

“St. Louis went with this whole court and all the clergy, five miles to meet it, and then accompanied it with great devotion to Paris. He carried the holy treasure, barefoot and with uncovered head, to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and thence into the chapel of St. Nicholas, where it was deposited with all due reverence.”

This acquisition of the Crown of Thorns inspired St. Louis’ construction of the Sainte-Chapelle. This architectural jewel in the Gothic style was for the purpose of housing the great relic of the Crown of Thorns.

KING OF CHIVALRY – VALOR IN WAR – CRUSADES

St. Louis combined great Christian faith with valor in war and his many victories. He gained a decisive victory over the Albigenses who were enemies of both Church and State. Some of the rebellious nobles who had made war against him when he ascended the throne were defeated.

John of Joinville, a friend and biographer of St. Louis, provides a vivid description of him in the battle outside Mansurah following the deaths of Robert of Artois and the Templars:

“While I was on foot with my knights, wounded, as I have already told you, up came the King with his own division; there was a great shouting and a tremendous noise of trumpets and kettledrums; he halted on a raised roadway. Never have I seen so fine a man in arms; he towered head and shoulders over his people, a gilded helmet on his head, and in his hand a sword of German steel. When he had halted there, the good knights of his household of whom I spoke before, with some of the brave knights of the King’s division, hurled themselves into the midst of the Turks. You must know that this was a great feat of arms; for there was no shooting of arrows nor bolts; on both sides it was a fight with mace and sword, in a mixed mass of our men and the Turks.”

St. Louis expressed his greatest zeal for the Church in the crusades that he engaged in to recover the Holy Land and to aid the Christians living there under conditions of oppression. Gaposchkin explains that Saint Louis saw the “crusades as a sacred duty to do the work of Christendom and the church in this context represented a preeminent obligation of kingship and emblematic of the duty of a most Christian king.”

The crusades were an important factor in religious thinking in the Middle Ages. They were seen as a duty owed to God and an opportunity for a reconciliation with God at the price of a heroic act of penance.

St. Louis led two crusades inspired by a sense of calling from Christ. These crusades did not meet with military success. Yet St. Louis felt that in defeat he was following the life of Christ as a suffering servant and in that attained moral victories and conversions to Christianity.

His first Crusade appeared to go well initially but many of his army fell victim to diseases and St. Louis was taken prisoner. Louis showed such heroic patience that even his enemies admired him. He continued with his pious practices and was eventually released on payment of a ransom. As he did this, he obtained a truce of 10 years with the Saracens. Given these new conditions he remained in the Holy Land, visiting sacred places where Jesus had walked. He ransomed prisoners and fortified Christian cities. When the news reached him that his mother Blanche had died, he returned to France.

The outcome of the first crusade undertaken by Louis did not cause him to ignore the plight of Christians in the Middle East. Therefore, he declared, over protest from those close to him, that he would take the cross again setting out on another crusade.

Some of the king’s brothers and his three eldest sons (Philip, John and Peter) accompanied him on this venture. When in Tunis, a disease swept through the crusaders and St. Louis’ son John died. Then both Louis and his son fell ill. While Philip recovered, the king was not able to regain his health and died there in Tunis.

As Gaposchkin explains, “Those returning to Paris brought with them the bones of the dead king, which were subsequently buried, along with Louis’ forbears, at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Denis, north of Paris. Miracles had begun to occur on the trip home from North Africa, and these multiplied in Paris, at the court, and particularly at St. Denis.”

KING AS PATRON OF SACRED ARTS – BUILDER

During the reign of St. Louis, architecture was in the spring of its strength and beauty. The patronage of Louis allowed cathedrals, churches and abbeys to spring up all over the kingdom. Many rich barons moved to imitate their pious sovereign built even more religious buildings. There was a general activity in religious building; the cathedrals of Amiens, Rheims, and Beauvais, to name a few out of many, were partly or wholly constructed in this reign.

St. Louis built the exquisite Sainte Chappelle, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture to house the precious relic of the Crown of Thorns of Jesus Christ. Besides the architectural gem of Sainte Chappelle, St. Louis is known for his patronage of the College of Sorbonne which became the seat of the theological faculty of the University of Paris.

Louis built many monasteries, convents, hospitals and schools during his reign. His hospital for the blind included a chapel for those who stayed there. He also established a hostel outside of Paris for poor women entitled the House of the Daughters of God.

RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS

The abbey of Royaumont was the first of the religious foundations established by St. Louis. This had been ordered by his father, Louis VIII in his will and Louis IX added to this legacy with his own resources. It is said that Louis wanted to participate personally in the construction of this monastery. J. Richard writes that “when stones for a wall had to be carried on stretchers, Louis took one end, with a monk at the other, and obliged his brothers to do likewise.”

The king loved to behave at Royaumont as if he were one of the monks singing, praying and eating. He often ate with them and, no doubt, listened to the monk who read aloud from a pulpit throughout the meal.

Louis even formed the idea of abdicating the crown to his son and retiring to a monastery. He was dissuaded with difficulty by the Queen, to whom first he disclosed his purpose. Although St. Louis did not become a monk, he lived a life just as austere marked by prayer, fasting and penance. Some of the other nobles complained that Louis was wasting time with all the Masses and sermons. He replied that if he spent twice as much time playing dice or hunting and fouling, nothing would be said about it.

CHARITY TO THE POOR

St. Louis had great love for the poor and cared for them with much compassion He served the poor in their own houses inviting some to eat at his own table. He fed over 100 people daily in his palace.

He washed the feet of some of the poor every Saturday. When some of his nobles suggested these practices unsuitable for a king, Louis IX advised them that in the poor, he recognized and honored Christ himself.

Louis made many visits to hospitals and would not avoid those with the worst afflictions. Instead, he would kneel down tending them, cherishing them with love.

INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS SON AT TIME OF HIS DEATH

Saint Louis IX gave final instructions to his eldest son before he died. The opening paragraphs are as follows:

“Fair son, the first thing I would teach thee is to set thine heart to love God; for unless he love God none can be saved. Keep thyself from doing aught that is displeasing to God, that is to say, from mortal sin. Contrariwise thou shouldst suffer every manner of torment rather than commit a mortal sin.”

“If God send thee adversity, receive it in patience and give thanks to our Saviour and bethink thee that thou hast deserved it, and that He will make it turn to thine advantage. If He send thee prosperity, then thank Him humbly, so that thou becomest not worse from pride or any other cause, when thou oughtest to be better. For we should not fight against God with his own gifts.”

On August 24, Louis received the last sacraments. On the 25th, he was unable to speak from nine till noon. Then he raised his eyes and repeated the words of the psalm: “Lord, I will enter into Thine house; I will adore in Thy holy temple and will give glory to Thy name.” At 3pm, he spoke again — “Into Thy hands I commend my soul” — and died.

St. Louis was 56 at the time of his death, worn out with work and hardships. Many of his accomplishments lived after him, serving as beacons of light, revealing the best of the Middle Ages. It is interesting to note that St. Louis died at the same hour Jesus Christ died.

The teachings of St. Louis to his son as he approached death clearly show that he viewed his royal mission as a religious vocation directly accountable to God. “The king enjoins his son to also play the role of savior to his people. All vile sins are to be exterminated and all heresy erased in the kingdom.” St. Louis closes his precepts for his son, Philippe, giving him his father’s blessing and commending him to God and God’s service as king.

Gaposchkin notes that it was written in a text on the life of Blessed Louis regarding a miracle on the news of his death. “Even before the news of his death was known in France, a certain noted lady of Paris, whose husband was a familiar of and dear to the lord king, warned from heaven in her sleep, saw blessed Louis splendidly and gloriously dressed in a purple cape, his hands joined, at the altar of the palace’s royal chapel in Paris, approaching as if about to offer a sacrifice upon it, surrounded by a great crowd of bystanders.”

The funeral of St. Louis was solemnly performed at Notre-Dame de Paris and the coffin went to rest in the abbey of Saint-Denis, the tomb of the kings of France. Even before the judgment of the Roman Catholic Church, St. Louis was considered to be a saint and many people came to pray at his tomb and miracles occurred.

MIRACLES OF SAINT LOUIS AND HIS CANONIZATION

Louis IX of France (b.1214, r.1226, d.1270) was canonized in 1297, twenty-seven years after his death in Tunisia while on crusade. Louis was undoubtedly one of the most significant kings of his era, the only king canonized in the thirteenth century and the last saint-king of the Middle Ages.

There were many miracles attributed to King Louis starting at the time of his death and continuing on. Miracles were the sign of special holiness and relationship to God and the ability of the saint to intercede on behalf of those who prayed to him. These miracles were often of healing. Gaposchkin describes a particularly poignant example of a miracle of healing is as follows.

“Not long after, Master Dudo, the doctor of the lord king (Philip III), who, while Louis was still living, had also been his familial doctor and attended him in the infirmity by which he died, suffered so badly from a very high fever in Paris that he himself and all other doctors despaired for him. On the night on the fourth day of his illness, with a great pain of his head, he was wrested from sleep, and he saw blessed Louis, to whom he had made a vow, attending him and having an extremely joyful and glorious countenance. And it seemed to him, who was asking Louis for help and relief in such great adversity, that blessed Louis sweetly exercised the duties of a surgeon on his behalf. Immediately the said patient was raised up after the strongest stiffness and sweat, by divine power and the merits of the pious king, having been fully liberated. The doctors said that at such a time this could not have happened by any obvious natural process of healing.”

Pope Boniface VIII canonized Louis IX, the only king of France to be numbered by the Roman Catholic Church among its saints, in 1297.

VISION OF SAINT LOUIS IX TO MARIE-JULIE JAHENNY
(ECSTASY AUGUST 25, 1874)

Marie-Julie: “I see Saint Louis in glory. Before he had a throne in the world, but today he has a throne in Heaven. He never sullied his throne.” (That is, his rule was without blemish, he was a just and holy ruler that pleased God.)

“But since then,” says this good Saint Louis, “how many blasphemies, how many perjuries on this earthly throne! I come back to reconcile Heaven and earth.”

Marie Julie: “You will reconcile France with the Heart of Jesus.”

Saint Louis, (King of France): “I want France to abjure her errors. Mary Immaculate gives me power and grace. Through my prayers I will give France a new baptism and then I will re-establish her throne. I will bring her this beautiful palm to the centre of this throne and my brother in Jesus Christ (i.e. the Great Monarch to come) who will govern her will preserve his innocence and purity, and Jesus and Mary will bless him, will bless his charity and his great heroic faith!”

Marie-Julie Jahenny then revealed a special prayer to be said to St. Louis in his honour, and, for the coming of the Great Catholic Monarch:

Great Saint Louis, King of France, hero of France, pray for France.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, beautiful lily of purity, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for France.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, who preserved thy purity and thy beautiful innocence and who never sullied this crown on the throne that Jesus and Mary gave thee, grant peace, pray that France humbles itself at the feet of Jesus and Mary and before thee.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, who comes to reconcile Heaven with Earth and to whom Jesus, the God of France, gives His graces, bring peace to France, grant that the Faith will flourish there, pray for France, the Holy Pontiff and the Church.

Great Saint Louis, thou, the friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, thou, the fervent servant of Mary whom thou loved so much and for whom thou desired to die on a Saturday, a day that was consecrated to her, pray for us, unhappy children of France.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, thou whom Jesus and Mary have received in their arms and who they gave a most beautiful crown, pray for France.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, France calls thee and requests that thou bring that beautiful crown that thou have never sullied, give it to her like a second crown, pray for France.

Great Saint Louis, who prays with the Immaculate Mary for the Sovereign Pontiff in the midst of his sufferings, the calumnies, the persecutions, deliver the Sovereign Pontiff.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, come today with Immaculate Mary, reconcile France and Heaven. We are all present, we pray together. He will come to our aid, to make truthfulness and innocence flourish in the midst of faded France, as Mary has given him the power, pray for France.

Great Saint Louis, King of France, Jesus and Mary have permitted that thou take by the hand the King that will govern and thou will give him his crown that thou never tarnished. Mary permits thee to place this King on the throne, he who will bring peace. Pray for the Sovereign Pontiff who calls upon thee for France. We see in thee a beautiful hope, we see thy blessed hand! Mary will refuse thee nothing, thou who have loved her so much. Come to our assistance. Come, Thou also, O Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thou open it completely that we may hide in It never to come out.

All for Thee, O Sacred Heart, all for You, Jesus and Mary, and all for thee, O good Saint Louis, King of France. Amen.

Notes: St. Louis reveals because of his devotion to the Mother of God, he will be instrumental in bringing about the coming of the Great Catholic Monarch who is destined to restore the Church and the world and bring the Age of Peace. Our Lady will give him the grace to do this. Our Lord also revealed to Marie-Julie that Our Lady would announce the time of the Renewal, and here we see She will give St. Louis IX an important role in the Renewal and the arrival of the Great Catholic Monarch. St. Louis will give the Great Monarch his crown! Let us say the prayer revealed to us that the Great Monarch will be sent!

Of interest, during his reign, King Louis abhorred blasphemy and ordered that anyone who uttered a blasphemy was to have their lips burnt with a hot branding iron. (Some accounts say a live coal.) He also said anyone who uttered a blasphemy against the Holy Mother of God should be run through with a sword! It was said it only happened once, a blasphemy was uttered and the criminal had his lips burnt. A blasphemy was never heard again in the kingdom of France during his reign. Even the Church was alarmed and made King Louis soften this punishment, but appears Heaven was pleased for Christ admitted to Marie-Julie that King Louis was a King after His own Heart, and that the Great Monarch to come would be another ‘King Louis’.

Our Lady also said to Marie-Julie that it was blasphemy that brings Hell to earth, and that when we hear a blasphemy, we must say a ‘Glory Be’ to repair the offence done to the majesty of God.

THE GREAT CATHOLIC MONARCH PROPHECIES
For centuries saints, mystics and learned theologians have foretold that near the End Times, God will raise up a mighty monarch to restore Catholicism that will be ravaged by a great apostasy and persecution.
This Great King will also become the last Holy Roman Emperor, establish the last and greatest militant order of the Church called the ‘Cruciferi’, the ‘Cross Bearers’, and will restore order from the West to the East in union with an ‘Angelic Pontiff’.
The multitude of Christian churches will convert from their various schisms and heresies and unite once again into one Holy Catholic Church under the Pope. Many Jews and Muslims will convert. He will establish a glorious Age of Peace under the Cross, the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This reign will last for about thirty years. Only when the King’s reign ends will the Antichrist finally appear and the End Times commence.

According to tradition, St. Remy (438-533 AD) who baptised the first king of France, Clovis I, received a vision wherein he was shown that in the distant future the last monarch of the kings of France would be specially revealed to the world and re-establish the Holy Roman Empire at the end of time. Of interest, it was foretold many times by the true mystics of the Church that the Great King and Emperor to come would be the last and greatest of the French monarchs, there would not be another like him, nor would another king rule after him.

The interesting detail that emerges when placing the Great Monarch prophecies together is that certain mystics such as St. Francis of Paola and Bl. Catherine Racconigi reveal the King will come in the mid 1800s – while other prophecies reveal he will come after the great chastisements sometime in the late 20th or early 21st century.

Marie-Julie Jahenny, as explained in the writings of Xavier Reyes-Ayral, is perhaps one of the most important messengers regarding the coming Great Monarch: for not only has she been granted the greatest amount of revelations concerning the time and manner of his appearance, and where the Great Shrine of the Cross will be situated, but was also given the remainder of his identity:

HENRY V – THE MIRACLE CHILD
Our Lady confirmed to Marie-Julie (March 25, 1874) he was ‘Henry V’.
Our Lord then declared: (March 22, 1881) “This flower is the lily, O King, miracle child, do not prepare to come from exile under a thick dust stirred up by the fury of the murderers of your country.” (The Great Monarch will come from his exile, which is also part of past ancient prophecies.)
St. Michael then added much later: (September 6, 1890) “The one who waits, it is the one that they call the “MIRACLE CHILD”. This kingdom has not yet known his name, but much later it will know the depths of his heart. He is reserved for the great epochs.”
Furthermore, this could be none other than Henri V, the Count of Chambord, the last direct descendant of the Bourbon line, who technically was king of France for only a week as HENRI V and was called “The Miracle Child” and “The Gift of God” by his supporters. He was exiled twice, and, suffered a limp after a riding accident as the ancient prophecies said he would. And, no other pretender to the throne of France has ascended that throne since his death – he truly is the last of his line.
He was as St. Michael said, the king the country did not want then, but ONE DAY would accept him, for he was ‘reserved for great epochs’.

Therefore Marie-Julie Jahenny was graced to disclose the identity of the chosen King who would come in the 1800s that would RETURN at a later epoch as the Great Monarch prophecies of the saints and mystics also foretold.

Why was the King rejected in her time? Because he insisted on the country accepting the White Flag of the Absolute Monarchy of Catholic France rejected by the Masonic French Republican Revolutionaries. Of interest, the restoration of “White Flag” features in many of Marie-Julie Jahenny’s prophecies,and will one day come to pass amidst miraculous events the like of which we will not see again until Judgement Day.

The French Revolution (1789-1799) brought many upheavals upon the political sphere. After the dissolution and decimation of the monarchy, a turbulent battle for power between the various democratic factions and attempts to restore the monarchy continually erupted, all compounded with the rise of Napoleon and his self-appointed coronation as Emperor of France in the early 1800s. For years, three factions were at odds in the jostle to restore order to the country; royalists called Ligitimists attempting to restore the absolute monarchy, republicans favouring a full democratic republic, and those supporting the Napoleonic house called the Bonapartists, who now believed these imperial descendants had a right to the throne of France. Our Lord said to Marie-Julie on May 28, 1877: “Ever since Louis XVI died on the scaffold, France is threatened with danger and misfortune.”

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT MONARCH
Henry the Count of Chambord (full name Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d’Artois, Duke de Bordeaux, Count de Chambord) was born on the feast day of St. Michael September 29, 1820. Of interest, St. Michael appeared to Marie-Julie with several of the Great Monarch prophecies, including the Great Monarch’s identity, HENRY V, the ‘MIRACLE CHILD’.

His birth was declared a miracle by the Royalists for he arrived seven months after his father Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, the youngest son of King Charles X, was brutally knifed to death by a Bonapartist on February 13, 1820. Of interest, St. Ceasarius of Arles foretold circa the 6th century that a leader would come before the Great Monarch who would be called the ‘father of the people’ and he would die from a stab wound. Marie-Julie also revealed the Great Monarch would descend from King and Queen martyrs.

Henry’s father, the Duke of Berry was the last direct male heir to the throne in the Bourbon line and the royalists waited with trepidation, not knowing if a male heir would be born. If not, the direct branch of the heaven-blessed line of the royal house would become permanently extinct. Hope flamed again with the birth of Henry, he was given the name Dieudonné, ‘God-given’ or ‘gift from God’, in recognition of the miracle sent from heaven. He was also called the ‘miracle child’ by his supporters. Water from the Jordan River was brought specially for his baptism.

When his grandfather, Charles X, youngest son of Louis XVI, abdicated the throne after the July Revolution on August 2, 1830, his son Louis XIX, Henry’s uncle, abdicated twenty minutes later. Henry therefore was technically King of France for a week from the 2nd to the 9th of August 1830 as Henry V, although he was never officially proclaimed as king by the government or the majority of the people.

The National Assembly declared that Louis Philippe, duc d’Orléans should assume the throne, and after he had usurped it with the support of the Assembly, Henry together with his family went into exile in Austria on August 16, 1830. Apparently, this was a vile act in the eyes of God, for the Chamber of Deputies in Marie-Julie Jahenny’s prophecies is referred to as the ‘Chamber of Hell’.

Of interest, the apparitions of Our Lady in Rue du Bac to St. Catherine Labouré happened around this time, and indeed, seem to point out Henry V as the promised Great monarch, however, the visions also revealed trouble ahead.

After Henry and is family went into exile, Louis Philippe ruled from 1830 to 1848 until he was forced off the throne during the next upheaval of the Second Republic, a democratic government which lasted until 1852 when another Napoleon ascended the throne, Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, who introduced the Second Empire. This new imperial regime collapsed following its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War at the battle of Sedan on September 1, 1870.

Henry lived a quiet life while in exile, refusing to press any of his rightful claims to the throne during the first periods of political instability during his exile. A staunch Catholic resistant to all the ideals of the previous democratic Revolutions, it was not until Napoleon III grew hostile to the church with his antipapal policies that Henry decided to act. After Napoleon’s fall, he issued a proclamation on Oct. 9, 1870 inviting all of France to reunite under the Bourbons, and his call was heeded. Events quickly became encouraging for Henry as the royalists gained the majority in the National Assembly. The Orléanists, Legitimists who supported the descendants of Louis Philippe, agreed to support Henry’s claim to the throne with the provision that at his childless death he would be succeeded by their own claimant, Philippe d’Orléans, Comte de Paris. Henry found himself in the favourable position of becoming the supported pretender for both the Legitimists and Orléanists, the prospects of restoring the Bourbon monarchy in France never before looked more promising.

Then, just when the throne was within his reach, Henry made a courageous stand for his Catholic faith and for the true restoration of his throne, proclaiming his famous Declaration of the White Flag on July 5, 1871 at Chambord, announcing he would never abandon the White Standard of the Kings, the emblem of his ancestors, the flag of Henry IV, Francis I and Joan de Arc. He rejected any compromise suggesting that the fleur-de-lys would be only his personal royal standard while the tricolour of the Republic would remain the national flag. In all, his defiant position symbolised a return the Ancient Régime: he would rule as the absolute monarch, the leader of a Catholic country as French royal tradition upholds, not as a sham figurehead held bound by a secular democratic constitution as was currently presented to him. The white flag of the absolute monarchy of France was to prevail throughout the land or not at all.

This refusal to bend to a democratic compromise cost him the throne for he lost his supporters, the Republicans quickly assumed power and commenced the Third Republic, a temporary measure to wait for Henry’s death and thereby secure his replacement by the more liberal Comte du Paris as originally agreed. Henry and his family were once again forced to leave the country in exile.

For years Henry was a source of disappointment or viewed outright as an incompetent ruler for many of the royalist Legitimists who couldn’t understand why he refused to make one seemingly insignificant compromise on the ‘little’ subject of a piece of cloth, a white flag, while for others like the Republicans this unwillingness became a source of jeering and mockery, often ‘thanking’ him for actually handing them a Republic. It became a double mockery. Even Pius IX who admired Henry was incredulous with Henry’s refusal to relent, remarking,

“Whoever heard of a man giving up a throne for a napkin?”

Indeed, historians continue to shake their heads at his unwillinginess to accept the Tricolor or a constitutional monarchy when the throne was so close within in his grasp, but as the prophecies to Marie-Julie Jahenny show, Our Lord revealed the King of His Choice would defend the Catholic Christian Tradition of France, the land that gave birth to the ‘Divine Right of Kings’ symbolised by the White Flag, and those who followed the King would be mocked like He was in his Kingship.

Of interest, the only time Christ is mentioned wearing white in the Gospels is when King Herod, a usurper to the throne of David put in power by the Romans, draped him in a white garment and mocked His kingship before sending Him back to Pilate. Afterwards these two enemies became friends. It was vicious injoke between them when someone was first presented to take a seat in the Roman senate, they wore white. Our Lord’s authority was therefore double-mocked by two usurpers, Roman invaders and a pretender to the throne of David. Our Lord explained to Marie-Julie (July 21, 1881):

“This same land (France), I am preparing for him who is despised of men and regarded as incompetent, because he is Christian and believes in his return to the land of his cradle. His shoulders will bear like Mine the mantle of abomination, as with those who hope to see him restore peace.”

In some of the prophecies of Marie-Julie, the King is shown wearing the White Flag draped like a cloak.

Henri V died without issue on August 24, 1883 at his home in Frohsdorf, Austria. He was buried with his grandfather Charles X and the Bourbon exiles in the crypt of the Franciscan Kostanjevica Monastery in Gorica, which used to be part of Austria. It is now in the Slovenian city of Nova Gorica.

Marie-Julie Jahenny predicted his death March 15, 1882 further stating that the ‘impure colours’, an obvious reference to the Tricolour flag of the Republicans, would rise in triumph and spread across the whole country. She was proven correct: the Third Republic became the government in France upon the Count’s death, for by then the majority of the French people were no longer in favour of restoring the monarchy. Although there are other offshoots and less direct royal claimants, (today the Count of Paris claims the direct line, while Spanish branch of the Bourbons claims the next direct line through Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou), there have been no sincere attempts to restore the French monarchy since that time and the tricolour of the Republic has remained the national flag.

Henry V, the ‘God-given miracle child’ was the last true legitimate Catholic King of France from the French house of Bourbon. Marie-Julie explained later on October 17, 1883 that Henry had been removed from the earth as a punishment to France for the country proved unworthy to receive him at that moment in history, it was the first chastisement to strike the earth. People did not pray enough to receive the king.

Not only that, it was revealed to her that by rejecting Henri V at the time, the clergy and the French people had ACCEPTED THE ABYSS and had opened the way for the chastisements to strike the earth, so dire did Heaven consider this rejection.

Marie-Julie’s life as a victim soul began on March 21, 1873, a little more than a year and eight months after the Count du Chambord made his Declaration of the White Flag in 1871. From the beginning, her life as prophetess and victim soul were united with the centuries-old promises of a Great Monarch and the chastisements to befall the world, and in a special way, connected with the Count, Henry V, the ‘Miracle Child’.

Marie-Julie also said the King would be a descendant of the ‘King and Queen Martyrs’, and as mentioned earlier, his father was brutally murdered by a Bonapartist. It was the Marquis de Franquerie who assumed she meant Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette according to his book “The Breton Stigmatist”— to date we have no confirmation of Marie-Julie herself using their names, but they probably are the ‘King and Queen Martyrs’ considering what happened to them during the French Revolution and Marie-Julie’s prediction Louis XVI will one day be officially recognised as a saint.

Nevertheless, the Count does descend from them when we consider the ancient Jewish manner of reckoning bloodlines in families, first cousins were considered the same as brothers. The name of a family and a bloodline went to the next brother in the family, therefore, Heaven may regard the children of Louis XVI’s brothers as though they belonged to Louis XVI himself. Charles X, Henry V’s grandfather, was Louis XVI’s youngest brother, therefore the Marquis de Franqueries’ assumption that the promised King would descend from Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette is still accurate in Henry’s case from a Judeo-biblical point of view.

In fact, the prophecies of Bl. Catherine Racconigi reveal that this is exactly how the lineage of the Great Monarch will occur, through a brother / nephew, yet he will still be considered in the ‘direct’ line according to the Biblical way of recognising a blood-line.

Marie-Julie also predicted the descendants from the Orléans branch of the family would never have the throne, the Great Monarch will not descend from them since their ancestors had turned traitor and supported the first Revolution. She was also told that none of Napoleon’s descendants were the chosen Great Monarch, nor were the other Bourbon pretenders, which would include today’s ‘Louis XX, Duke of Anjo’, nor will the Great Monarch come from the descendants of Naundorff who today claim to be from the lost branch of Louis XVII. According to these interpretations, Henry V fulfils all the predictions sent from Heaven through the centuries.

HOW DOES HENRY V FIT THE PROPHECIES?

Of course, one may be asking that if he was the Chosen King, have all the prophecies come to nothing since he died without having fulfilled his mission?
No, they have not!

Our Lord emphatically declared to Marie-Julie that ALL of the prophecies acclaimed “The MIRACLE CHILD”, and that HE WOULD BE RETURNED TO HIS SUBJECTS. She continued to receive prophecies concerning him even after his death. Also, as already mentioned, the other Great Monarch prophecies of the past already revealed he will come in the 1800s AND sometime in a future age when the great chastisements have cleansed the earth.

Our Lord to Marie-Julie Jahenny, March 22, 1881: “All My veritable prophetic words, O King of exile, call you and acclaim you. Without deferring too much, I will return to your subjects and your people he who bears on his head the same flower that you love. This flower is the lily, O King, miracle child, do not prepare to come from exile under a thick dust stirred up by the fury of the murderers of your country. You will prepare to come on the edge of this land that was foreign to you. From the north But, as the day of darkness, their eyes will be veiled, the exile will be returned and My Justice will be accomplished. You will pass to reclaim the sceptre of glory. You will temper the tip in the blood of the Romans, in the defence of the Sovereign Pontiff, the bond of all the faithful. I have profound words of life and encouragement. I have found on the earth wise messengers ready to obey, to carry these words … ”

The prophecies that continue to mention Henry V, even after Henry V’s death, St. Michael appeared years later after his death and declared the King would be the one called the ‘Miracle Child’. Other prophecies foretell he will arrive amidst the chastisements, and these too must also be fulfilled. He will be a ‘hidden’ king and command great armies, and this is where Marie-Julie’s numerous prophecies begin to fill in the seeming anomalies, his death becoming part of the great mystery that will be unveiled in the future.

Notwithstanding the Count of Chambord’s death, Marie-Julie’s many predictions continually mention the return of the White Flag of the fleur-de-lys and a golden fleur-de-lys crown, that the King to Come—the one called the ‘miracle child’ and ‘miracle king’—would one day come out of exile in the midst of wars and trample down his enemies, bearing a great banner of the Sacred Heart. After the deliverance of France, he would fly to the aid of the Pope in Rome and restore Christendom. The strange part is, these details concern the days of the future chastisements, yet, she mentions these details while the Count was still alive, confirming him as the promised Great Monarch, and continued to make the same prophecies after his death in August 24, 1883 along with the similar descriptions of the chastisements of the future. The most curious revelation we find is St. Michael’s message dated September 29, 1890, several years after the Count’s death:

St. Michael: “The one who waits, it is the one that they call the miracle child. This kingdom has not yet known his name, but much later it will know the depths of his heart. He is reserved for the great epochs.” (Possible interpretation: the people of France don’t know his name because he was not officially recognised as Henry V and legitimate king, yet, he will be recognised and is reserved for the future.)

In fact, one text hints that Marie-Julie would not see the triumph of ‘Henry of the Cross’ until she was in Heaven, which means not until after her death: Our Lord declared (February 14, 1882): “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.”

Considering that the Count du Chambord, Henry V, the Miracle Child, was still alive when this text was written, Our Lord must be revealing in this passage that his great victory as the Great Monarch would not happen until some time after her death, which occurred in March 4, 1941!

Also, we know from another prophecy that he will not come until AFTER every corrupt system set up by the Freemasons via democracy is swept away – which will include a leader called the ‘Pillar of Mud’, the King will come sometime after this weak indiviudal is long gone – people lately have realised the ‘Pillar of Mud’ could mean PRESIDENT SARKOZY OF FRANCE.

In all, we may deduce that the man who was alive, Henry V, the Count du Chambord, and the king who is to come, ‘Henry of the Cross’, are one and the same. He is reserved for the future, for great epochs as St. Michael said. When revealing how the armies would march on France the archangel also repeated the following message twice, once in September 29, 1878 while the Count was alive, and again in September 6, 1890 years after the Count’s death: “The days of exile will still have been hard and cost dearly to this faithful King, Catholic, but he will be most greatly rewarded. Let them say and affirm to men that he will never return. Listen to them and ask them if they are prophets!”

The prophecies of Marie-Julie continually mention a ‘return’ of the king, a ‘return’ of the fleur de lys , a ‘resurrection’ of the fleur de lys , and that France would be ‘resurrected’.

In other words, we cannot help but notice the numerous predictions concerning Henry by Marie-Julie that were made before and after the Count of Chambord’s death. The only difference is after his death, the name ‘Henry’ is not used according to the texts that have been released so far. Instead, through Mare-Julie, Heaven describes the Great King to come as a ‘hidden king’, a ‘hidden Saviour’, a ‘mortal Saviour’. Of importance, she also used the title ‘Saviour of the earth’, and ‘new Saviour’ while the Count was still alive. In fact, the title ‘Saviour’ is a great grace as God declares there is no other Saviour but Him: “I Am, I Am the Lord, and there is no other saviour besides Me.” (Isaias 43:11) “…thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour besides me.” (Osee 13:4)

Despite this, we find the title ‘saviour’ has been granted to a very few chosen souls: for instance, the patriarch Joseph who saved Egypt and consequently other nations with it (Gen. 41:45), the Judges Othoniel and Aod who delivered the children of Israel from their enemies, (Judges 3: 9, 15), and also St. Joseph who is sometimes described as the ‘saviour of the Saviour’ as he protected Our Lord during the slaughter of the innocents and saved both the future Church and the world by protecting the Divine Saviour. So, if the Great King to come is described with the august title of ‘Saviour’ so many times in Marie-Julie’s prophecies, what does it mean? The title ‘Saviour’ not only points to the deliverance of nations and the Church, but can also point towards the promise of a resurrection. As many of the Prophets and heroes of the Old Testament were symbolical types or representations of the Messias’ coming, it is possible that Great King will resemble Christ the Saviour who rose from the dead and renewed the whole earth and saved His People through the establishment of His Church. The Great King will do similar wonders through the power and grace of God, but restore the earth and the Church in a temporal manner, the Age of Peace as promised through many other mystics and approved apparitions.

Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser (1613-1658) said the Great Catholic Monarch would be called, “Help From God”. Of interest, the name Lazarus means “God has helped” or “God is my help”. The Great Monarch may be recognised as a new Lazarus of our times.

In the end, there is only one conclusion to make—Henry V, the ‘miracle child’ will be raised from the dead in order to fulfil these future prophecies.

The thought is astounding, but heaven repeated over and over through Marie-Julie that those who would live to see the future days and the regeneration of the earth would witness miracles that would not be seen again until the Day of Judgement. The Sacred Heart promised during the great renewal there would be, “great signs in this reign, there will be resurrections, there will be wonders of protection for My souls that I want to guard to raise up the good, to flourish once again.” (November 13, 1924)
As we recall, our Lord wanted to astound the Jews by bringing the Great King out of exile in a miraculous manner that resembles the day when he died on the Cross. Again, it is another prediction made before the Count’s death: (February 28, 1882): “The wicked eye of all these souls will remain open, because I want it that they see My power. (The Jews) I reserve for them to see, with their eyes, the radiant star that 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.”
In the Gospel of St. Matthew (27: 45, 51-53) we read that when Christ died on the cross for our redemption, the sky darkened, the earth shook, mountains split open, and the dead arose and appeared to many.

In another text, St. Benedict explained to Marie Julie on August 26, 1878: “All these signs are the arrival of the Lord, the arrival of a joy and great sorrow. (i.e. The signs announcing the chastisements and the great renewal.) The Evangelists also marked these facts for the great day of the General Judgement. Ah well! It will happen before the last (day), it will be terrible, a judgement of Justice, a judgement of anger and at the same time a glorious resurrection in peace, in hope for the friends of God.”
Other mystics of the Church have also foretold these days will be similar to the General Judgement. Therefore, if the chastisements and arrival of the Great Monarch shall resemble the Day of Judgement, it stands to reason that the same miracles will also occur—the dead will rise.
Of interest, on several occasions in the early years of her ecstasies Marie-Julie was shown several allegorical visions of France as the Eldest Daughter of the Church. In one vision, France appears as a haughty queen, but is black and putrid because of her sins, having rejected Christ and His chosen government of an absolute monarchy. France rejects Christ again and His appeal to convert and therefore she is placed in a tomb surrounded by thorns representing the punishments she must undergo for her purification. Christ comes to inspect the condition of France in other visions, opening the tomb, but she is not yet purified. Christ consoles her and places her back in the tomb. At last, in one vision Christ eventually raises her up and she is once more beautiful and radiant, clothed all in white adorned with golden lilies for she now has accepted Christ, Our Lady and the promised King symbolised by the White Flag and the golden crown of the fleur de lys. She is once again the beloved Eldest Daughter of the Church. It is a prophecy for the future. These unusual allegories of France call to mind that in the ancient days it was believed that the king of a country was mystically tied to his kingdom and to his people: if the king was good and just, the land reflected his goodness, the people prospered and were virtuous. If the king was beset by enemies or was an evil ruler, the land suffered, the subjects grew evil, and wars and famine prevailed. In connection with this allegory, is the image of France rising from the tomb another sign that the Great King of France will be resurrected? We cannot help but notice that when speaking of the renewal of France to Marie-Julie, Heaven used the word ‘resurrection’ and spoke of a ‘resurrection’ numerous times.

In conclusion, there can be no other greater revelation of those days than this—Henry V, the Count of Chambord, was and remains the chosen Great Monarch.

Although he was alive on the earth, he is hidden from the eyes of the world in death, thus fulfilling the prophecy he would be ‘hidden’, completely veiled from his enemies who will not know who is or from whence he came, not until his identity is confirmed and ratified by the miracles God has promised to send. He will be sent back to earth by God to renew France, the world and the persecuted Church. Surviving branches of the royal house will attempt to claim the throne, but will not succeed, God alone will secure Henry’s throne. Christ did say repeatedly to Marie-Julie Jahenny that the Great Monarch cannot and will not come by human means or plans, that the restoration will be entirely beyond the power of man.
Also, the Great Monarch’s coming will seem impossible, especially to the spiritually blind who don’t understand God’s ways, nor those who wanted to have anything to do with the restoration of the monarchy: (July 19, 1881) “After they (God’s enemies?) will be avenged on everything, there will come the one that the wonderful goodness of God has elected through all the dark clouds, although it may seem impossible. It is so veiled, (the means of his arrival) that there is nothing apparent to the blind and for those who would never wanted to know his name … .”
Christ stated repeatedly to Marie-Julie that only He can bring the King back, and if we consider the possibility of Henry’s resurrection from the dead, that indeed would explain Our Lord’s words declared to Marie-Julie in her last recorded ecstasy of February 1941:

“France will be saved by means out of all human knowledge. God has reserved the secret for them until the last moment. I make light of the projects of men, preparing My right wonders. (…) And the more the world will be hostile to the supernatural, the more marvellous will be the events that will confuse this negation of the supernatural.”

Our Lord affirmed it pained Him that Christians did not believe in the coming chastisements as the time seemed so far off, nor trusted in His promises to bring the Great Renewal and the King and the Reign of the Sacred Heart because of the long delay (August 5, 1879) “Do not expect anything of the rulers of today (…) I warn you, you, all My servants to wait in trust and hope. What pains Me the most is that many Christians refuse to believe in the Promise of My Divine Heart, and that many souls go so far as to say: “If the Heart of God had wanted, this miracle would have happened long ago before now.’”

Therefore, let us continue to remember in our daily Rosary (or Rosaries) the future Great Catholic Monarch, as well as the future Angelic Pope.

Ave Maria!
Father Joseph Poisson

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