Vision of Satan’s Challenge & the “Century of Trial”
1884 AD — Rome
Pending
After Mass Oct 13, 1884, heard a vision: Satan boasts he could destroy the Church if given 75–100 years and more power; Our Lord permits it. Pope sees future wars, apostasy, persecution, then composes the Prayer to St. Michael as a spiritual defense.
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Prophecy of Apostasy in Rome
1888 AD — Rome
Pending
In the longer version of the St. Michael prayer, he petitioned St. Michael against “Satan’s abominable impiety” in Rome, “the Holy Place,” foreseeing a future apostasy and spiritual attack even in the Vatican itself.
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