THREE DAYS OF GLOOM.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 157, 8 March 1872, Page 3

THREE DAYS OF GLOOM.

We. qifote the following ..very; agreeable prophecy from the ' Journal de Bruxelles.'' The prophecy is attri:btited:r.s6.r Taigi, and is to the effect that two great one from heaven; the bther from earth. wMcjifwttl "Assist r of .wars, Devolutions arid other ' Calamities, being 'terminated that from heaven will' succeed|. arid is explained as follows : Grreat darkness is to prevail over the Whole land during three days and. three nights.. It will* be so thick tuat absolutely nothing will be visible, and will be accompanied by p 3stilerice, which wilL chiefly fail on'tlie enemies of religion, although the scourge will riot be confined exclusively to them. Whilst th is 'darkness lasts rio "light will 1 shine, J rio Kite will have' aiiy and only those who-hWe blessed will be able : to see. All' triis is Very horrible, antl it is to be hoped the lady in ty 4 .be mistaken in her predictions, and} that they may turn out is erroneous as that 'of the great tidal" wave whicK was, the Cither day to Hav*e destroyed. New Orleans;" The prophetess, however, gives, full directions as to the proper course to be pursued during this' plague of darkness and pestilence. People a e exhorted not to end avor to scan the heavens curiously during the darkness, for whosoever 'shallgo arid look out , at. a window or leave his house,; for the purpose of describing what is parsing in the firmament, will be iinmedlately stru *k dowri!' The vvhole time that-the judgment shall Lfs.t ought' to be employed in prayer, auil above all in reciting the h oly s rosary. The, di recto r of A una Maria Taigi'said, August', 1861: —" It is most true that the venerable servant of Grod announced the scourge of three days' darkness, extending the whole earth. While it lasts the windows must be kept closed "