[Sooth2222]

(2) Prophecies of St. Malachy

Concerning Ireland

This prophecy, which is distinct from the prophecies attributed to St. Malachy concerning the popes, is to the effect that his beloved native isle would undergo at the hands of England oppression, persecution, and calamities of every kind, during a week of centuries; but that she would preserve her fidelity to God and to His Church amidst all her trials. At the end of seven centuries she would be delivered from her oppressors (or oppressions), who in their turn would be subjected to dreadful chastisements, and Catholic Ireland would be instrumental in bringing back the British nation to that Divine Faith which Protestant England had, during three hundred years, so rudely endeavoured to wrest from her. This prophecy is said to have been copied by the learned Dom Mabillon from an ancient manuscript preserved at Clairvaux, and transmitted by him to the martyred successor of Oliver Plunkett.

Maybe I missed that particular English History class, but I really don't remember reading the part about where England converted back to Roman Catholicism around 1848.

Even if he gets the end of the world right, St. Malachy is still only 1 for 2.

T. Boone Pickens has been much better predicting $60 oil!

[lasereye]

Where did you get 1848 from?

[Domestic Church]

England didn't become Protestant until the Reformation...we still have time in play.
("At the end of seven centuries...)

At that point England might look more like it did back in the Jacobite period.

[Domestic Church]

England didn't become Protestant until the Reformation...we still have time in play.
("At the end of seven centuries...)

At that point England might look more like it did back in the Jacobite period.

[goldstategop]

England was Catholic until well after the Reformation. King Henry VIII broke ties with Rome only because the Pope refused to grant him an annulment and then in all other matters he remained a staunch Catholic. The Anglicans were seen as too Catholic by other English sects who were persecuted precisely because they were not Orthodox enough. England is still very much Anglican - although I must have missed the memo about the alleged 1848 re-conversion. Don't worry; no body else got it either.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)