The problem of the current religion is the relationship between France and Satan. For those who have ears to hear, the words of the Virgin revealed to Don Gobbi almost forty years ago are of great relevance.
Leo also praised the anti-Catholic French Enlightenment for recognizing “Human Rights.” Meanwhile, Rome describes the Church as a “movement,” and a German theologian describes Islam as Christianity.
On July 17, 1794, sixteen Carmelite nuns were taken through the streets of Paris to the guillotine. Their crime was fidelity to their religious vocation. Expelled from their monastery, they had continued living their rule as best they could. When the revolutionary authorities finally arrested them, they were condemned and executed. They sang hymns on their way to the scaffold.
(Excerpts from Chris Jackson's long article)
Today is the anniversary of Our Lady’s apparition at La Salette, France, high in the French Alps, on September 19, 1846, to two cow-herding children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud.
The touching of scrofula: between legend, history and spiritual gift
There are practices that history readily relegates to the realm of superstition, the better to rid itself of an encumbering past. The touching of scrofula—that rite by which the kings of France allegedly healed the scrofulous by the mere contact of their hand—is among them. Yet, between the medicine that deconstructs the miracle and the theology that still recognizes the gift of healing, there is a more subtle truth to grasp.