OUTCOME OF WAR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 153, 10 September 1941, Page 6

OUTCOME OF WAR

AN ANCIENT PROPHECY ST. ODILE OF ALSACE

As far away as the eighth century a jiropliecy by St. Oclilc, tlie patron saint of Alsacc, the province now '"gain under German domination, appears to have a strange application to present world conditions. The prophecy has been recalled and this is what St. Odilc said at that time: "Fear has frozen the people, for never in any region of the universe has such perturbation been witnessed. It is. the time when German in will be called the most belligerent nation on earth. It is the epoch when there will spring from the womb the terrible warrior who will undertake Avar on the world and whom man under arms will call anti-IChrist. He will be damned by mothers in thousands, because their children no longer live, and " because all will; have been laid waste in their invaded homes. From Banks of Danube "The conqueror will come from the banks of the Danube. He will be a remarkable chieftain among all men. Tis arms will be flamboyant. He will win victories on land and sea, and even in the air, because. his winged numbers, in attacks, to rise up to the firmament. Nations will be stunned and exclaim, 'Whence comes his strength 0 How has he been able to undertake such a war?'

"The Avar will be long and the conqueror Avill attain the apex of his triumph about the middle of the sixth month of the second year of hostilities. Tt Avill be the end of lii.s bloody victories. His enemy will not submit in any way. Then will come a period of diminution. li: will be full of surprises iliat will cause the people of the world to

quake, particularly when 20 opposing nations take pjirt in the Avar. The small nations Avill submit—Avill plead for peace; but. there avi 11 be no peace for them. Ye, this Avill not be tlie end of the Avar, but the beginning of the end. It is then t'nat there Avill be revolt among the, AA romen of his oavii country Avho Avill want to stone him. From the Orient

"And," continues St. CMile, "prodigious things will comc in tfie Oriont. There will be a third period of war, when the victor will have lost the confidence of his warriors. This will be called the period of invasion, bccause the country of the conqueror will be invaded in all parts and laid waste in retribution for the injustices and ungodlinesses. "There will come the last battles and the nations will sing hymns in the temples of God for their deliverance, because there will appear the warrior who will disperse the troops of the victor, whose armies will be decimated by a great plague. The people will believe that bis end is near, because God is just, although sometimes allowing cruelty and devastation, when we for.get Him."