Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser was a holy priest of the seventeenth century, founder of an Institute for the formation of priests approved by Pope Innocent XI in 1680. Holzhauser accurately predicted the execution of Charles I of England and the persecution of the Catholic Church in England for 120 years. (Prohibition of Mass under penalty of death lasted from 1658 until 1778.) The documents for his cause of canonization attribute miracles of healing to him. In one of his works, Venerable Holzhauser divided the history of the Church into seven periods and situated the seventeenth century Church in the fifth of these periods. He wrote:
"During the fifth period, we saw only calamities and devastation; oppression of Catholics by tyrants and heretics; execution of Kings, and conspiracies to set up republics[32] . . . Are we not to fear, during this period, that the Mohammedans will come again, working out their sinister schemes against the Latin Church? . . . During this period men will abuse the freedom of conscience conceded to them . . . there will be laxity in divine and human precepts. Discipline will suffer. The holy canons will be completely disregarded, and the clergy will not respect the laws of the Church. Everyone will be carried away and led to believe and to do what he fancies, according to the manner of the flesh[33] . . . But, by the hand of God Almighty, there occurs so wondrous a change during the sixth period that no one can humanly visualize it.[34]Knowing that Her divine Son's church would be in great tribulation in this fifth age, and that He had given Her to them to be their mother and Queen who was to crush the proud dragon with Her humiliy, she called Her children to enter with Her into battle . In 1517 Martin Luther published his 96 theses. In 1563 Sister Mariana De Jesus Torres was born is Biscay Spain. Know that tribulation if the 5th age would continue for centuries and would not begin to reach it's climax until the middle of the 20th century, she asked Sister Marianna to suffer in atonement for the people of this age.
The apparitions to the shepherd children at Fatima and Garabandal were announced in advance by St. Michael the archangle along with a load clap of thunder on a sunny day. At Fatima , in 1917, Holy Mary told the children that World War I would soon be ending but If mankind did respond Her requests to keep the first five Saturdays, to pray and to do penance a worse war would follow. World War II began began in 1939 with Hitlers invasion of Poland.
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