REMARKABLE PROPHECIES.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 845, 3 August 1871, Page 3

REMARKABLE PROPHECIES.

Public attention has been directed lately, says the " Colonist," to some old prophecies which appear in course of accomplishment now. Amongst many, the most remarkable, perhaps, is that of " Orval." This singular prophecy was known to us at the outbreak of the Franco-German war, and we can bear testimony that the events then specially prognosticated, and described by the gentleman who showed us the prophecy, has been literally fulfilled. The fail of Napoleon—the half destruction of Paris, and the return of the Bourbons (Le., the White Flower) were foretold by him. IS'or did the announcement of peace shake his belief. He still persisted that we should see Paris destroyed, and this has come true. Although our informant does not attribute the same authority to the other prophecies because he has not a personal experience of their truth, still many learned men in Europe place great confidence in them. It may, therefore, be interesting to our readers to peruse extracts from some of them, especially those that seem to agree with the prophecy of Orval. The following is an extract from the prophecy of Father Neckton, dating before 1790, and published in Langdon's Translation, I860: "L Paris will be completely destroyed, so that when, twenty years afterwards, parents will walk among the ruins with their children, who will ask what that place is, they will answer,' My child there stood once a great city here, which God destroyed for its crimes.' "2. After this terrible event order will be completely restored. Justice will be administered to all, and the counter-revolution will be accomplished, and the triumph of the Church will be such that it will never be equalled, because it will be the last triumph of the Church upon earth. " 3. This event will be near at hand when England begins to be shaken. England will experience in her turn a revolution more terrible than the first French revolution, and that revolution will last long enough to give time to France to grow calm again, and France will help England to restore peace." Father Neckton did not fix the precise epoch of these events j but it will be seen by the 3rd verse he clearly predicted the first French revolution ; and he added, " Those who had outlived the first French revolution, and who would witness the last, would thank God for having spared them to see so great a triumph for his church." He is therefore committed to these events happening during the lifetime of persons in 1703—they ought, according to that, to be in course of fulfilment now.

Extract from a prophecy by Father Hermann, a Cistercian monk, known in 1245. This prophecy consists of 100 Latin verses, 91 of which have been verified -during the last 600 years. It refers to the Prussian dynasty as follows: — Verse 47.—But at this time (Sixteenth Century) a woman will introduce a deplorable plague into the country (Prussia). 48.—A woman infected with the venom of a new serpent. 49.—And this venom will last until the eleventh generation. # * * # # # # 92.—-This King will commit a crime which'must be punished by death. 93.—At length she bears the ceptre who will be the last of his race.

[Elizabeth of Denmark, wife of Joachim 1., Elector of Brandenburg, at the time appointed introduced Lutheranism into Prussia, and the present King is of the " eleventh generation."] 92.—1n some copies the word " Israel " is used, but in those we have seen the words " Is Eex " (This KingJ are used, and most probably correct, judging by the context. Some German commentators, reading the word "Israel, 1 ' hold that verse 03 could

be accomplished by the return of the dynasty (i.e., the Crown Prince) to the Catholic faith.

Extract from a prophecy of Don Jerome Botin, Benedictine of the Abbey of St Germain.cles-Pres, Paris; who died at Paris, July l()tb, 1410. The following extracts relate to the present and future events : " But when four centuries will have more than elapsed, the altars of Beelzebub shall be destroyed; the workers of iniquity shall be dissipated and perish. " The dew from heaven shall come upon the earth in desolation, and upon the church in tears.

" There will be a child given by the men of A.rtois, and he will govern France with honour and prudence, and the spirit of the Lord will be with him, >says the Lord." [Note.—The Comte de Chambord is the son of the Due de Berri, the son of Charles X., Count d'Artois; the Comte de Chambord also bears by inheritance the title of Count d'Artois. The prophecy clearly describes the events of the first French revolution, and of the recent. It is too long to insert in full, but we cull the following remarkable verses]: — " The Lord has offered, by the hands of that impious city—destroyer, and murderer of her priests, of her Kings, and of her children—the chalice of His vengeance to all the earth. " All the nations have drunk of the wine of her frenzy; they have suffered all the agitations of her cupidity ; but, in an instant, Babylon has fallen ; she hath broken herself in the fall, saith the Spirit.

*' All this shall take place to try the good, and to cause the destruction of the wicked; to do honour to the church of God; to make God be feared and served, saith the Spirit." The prophecy of the Nun of Blois, written at the beginning of the present century, clearly foretold the declaration of war in the month of July, and the defeat of the French, "at the end of August, 1870." Napoleon 111. with his splendid army were utterly routed, and himself taken prisoner, on the 31st August, 1870, at Sedan. The prophecy of St Cesarius, of Aries, written in the fifth century, and well known since the fourteenth century, is very long, and we can therefore only give a short extract:— " The young captive who will recover the Crown of Lilies will destroy the Sons of Brutus, and the Islands, and extend his empire all over the world." This confirms in a remarkable way the other prophecies—first, that of " Orval," the 45th verse of which runs as follows :—" God will be believed to be with him, so prudent and wise will be the offspring of the Cap," and in the above prophecy of Father Neckton's and of Jerome Botin.