Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848Various
History
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
The other French prophecy, to which allusion has been made, professes
to be only of a much later date. It is said to have emanated from a
Jesuit priest, who died towards the end of the last century at
Bordeaux, in the "odour of sanctity," and to have been communicated by
him to a novice residing with him in an establishment of the Jesuits
at Poitiers, some time previous to the outbreak of the first French
Revolution. It is supposed to have been transcribed and preserved by
the novice, who afterwards became himself a Jesuit priest, and by him
to have been given into the hands of several persons, who still
possess it, or who may have in turn given circulation to it. Not much
importance was attached to it until the events of the Revolution,
which confirmed so many of its predictions, were accomplished; and
again, since the events of the present year, it has been called to
men's minds. Like the Orval prophecy, its predictions, as regards what
is now past, have been wonderfully distinct, and, relative to the
events of this present year, no less so. With respect to its existence
previously to these latter events, the writer can also give testimony,
as in the case of the Orval prophecy, that it was transcribed as far
back as the year 1836, from the mouth of the _supérieure_ of a convent
in Lyons, who testified that she had heard it from the novice to whom
it was first delivered. The authenticity of its prophetic revelations
can thus be proved as far as regards the present day. It bears, in
many respects, a great analogy to the Previsions of the Solitary of
Orval, and the predictions it delivers coincide in most respects with
the latter: but it contains distinct references to other events, of
which the Orval prophecy makes no mention. As the revelation also of a
holy churchman, prophetically inspired, its contents naturally refer,
in a great measure, to the state of the church, or perhaps even to the
condition of the order of the Jesuits alone. The whole is necessarily
couched in mysterious language in this respect: and it ought, perhaps,
to be premised that the "counter-revolution" alluded to refers to the
triumph of the priesthood in general, or, as was before said, of the
Jesuit order. The portions of this prophecy which have fallen into the
writer's hands refer only to the events immediately following the fall
of Napoleon; although he has been assured that, in other copies, it
goes back to circumstances antecedent to the first Revolution.
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