BL. ELISABETTA CANORI MORA (1774-1825) was born in
Rome on 21 November 1774 to the aristocrats Tommaso Canori and Teresa
Primoli as one of twelve children; six of these children died as
infants. One sister was Benedetta. She was baptized on 22 November in
the names of Maria Elisabetta Cecilia Gertrude.
Her parents first entrusted her to the religious at the convent of
Santa Euphemia for her initial studies and the Superioress Gertrude
Riggoli discovered her keen gifts and wanted her there as a full-time
student. Bl. Elisabetta Mora received her Confirmation in Saint
Peter's Basilica on 5 July 1782 and Sister Riggoli was her godmother.
Her father withdrew her from the Santa Euphemia convent due to their
poverty and soon after sought help from his brother in Spoleto when
their fortunes began to dwindle. Her uncle helped and assumed the
care of her and her sister Benedetta and entrusted them to a convent
for education. The Augustinian Sisters from Casica oversaw her
education from 1785 until 1788. During her education she became noted
for her intelligence and her interior spirit of penance.
Bl. Elisabetta married the
solicitor Cristoforo Mora on 10 January 1796 in the church of Santa
Maria in Campo Corleo and the couple went on to have a total of four
children. The first two children died within the week of their births
with two surviving daughters Marianne (b. 1799) and Luciana (b. 5
July 1801) left; Marianna later married and had a single child while
Lucina became a nun in 1795. Her father-in-law was the doctor
Francesco Mora. Her husband proved unfaithful and sometimes violent
and reduced the Mora's to a state of want to his abrasive nature.
Her husband was also jealous and controlling and he became suspicious
of his wife's ties to her parents - this led to him becoming cold and
indifferent to her. Cristoforo in the beginning liked to parade her
around and guard her like a treasure and called her his "pearl
of great price" though as the marriage deteriorated took up a
mistress. Her confessor and spiritual director before 1807 was the
Jesuit priest Giovanni Giacomo Pegna.
On 15 August 1801 she fell ill with severe colic despite the
attempts of her father-in-law to treat her and she almost died from
this but was cured; there was no medical explanation for her cure and
she deemed it to be a miracle. Her illness caused her to sell her
jewels and her wedding dress to make up for the medical bills. Bl.
Elisabetta Mora became a member of the Secular Trinitarians in 1807
and her fame spread throughout Rome at a rapid pace. The Trinitarian
priest Fernando de San Luis became her spiritual director in 1807 had
intrduced her to the order before she joined it. Bl. Elisabetta Mora
predicted that her husband would soon repent to the faith and become
devout.
Her husband had reduced them to poverty to the point that he had
stolen a considerable sum from his father who found out and suffered
an apoplectic stroke - he was cured due to Bl. Elisabetta Mora
turning to God for His divine intercession. Her sisters-in-law grew
concerned for her as did her mother-in-law, and Cristoforo's sisters
went to the Roman authorities for the Papal States to have them
reprimand him for his vile mannerisms. The Cardinal Vicar of Rome
received him at the convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo and this
enraged Cristoforo when he learnt his sisters were behind it and his
wife knew of it. Cristoforo became so enraged with his wife that he
pulled out a knife and lunged at her but did not strike her so
instead fell to his knees and begged for her pardon in a sudden and
unexpected moment of fear.
Her Mystical Experiences
Mora recorded all her spiritual experiences at her confessor's
request and this ended up spanning countless notebooks. She saw the
Our Lady on 7 September 1803 with a dove and this caused her to faint
though she later awoke and saw a flame where her heart was. On March
22, 1814 she turned her mind in reflection to Pope Pius VII and had a
sudden vision in which she saw the pontiff in the midst of a pack of
"wolves". On 16 January 1815 she had a vision in which she
saw angels and on 29 June 1820 saw Saint Peter descend from heaven in
papal vestments with a legion of angels behind him. On October 19,
1816 she went to receive Communion and a voice said that God would
speak with her on October 23, at midnight - on that date the Madonna
appeared with the Infant Jesus and beckoned her to come to them.
Bl. Elisabetta Mora approached them and the Infant Jesus placed a
ring on her finger. She had an intense devotion to the Eucharist
and once saw Saint Felix of Valois and Saint John of Matha appear to
her with the Host. It was also said that Bl. Elisabetta Mora cured
the epileptic Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti - the future Pope Pius
IX - before the latter became a priest. This is lesser known for
the future pope credited this to Pius VII when the pair met. In
1820 she was vested in the Trinitarian habit and assumed the name of
"Jane Felica della Santissima Trinità". When she learnt
that Pius VII would return from his French exile she - in great
happiness - asked God to grant the pope safe passage through to Rome.
On 29 September 1809 she saw the St. Michael with a legion of angels.
Bl. Elisabetta Mora had an intense devotion for
Saint Ignatius and called him both her "father" and her
"protector". She was a friend of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi,
who was also gifted with visions and prophecy. On 17 June 1814 Bl.
Elisabetta Mora returned from church and had a vision in which she
saw the late Pope Pius VI who told her that he was in Purgatory for
negligences committed in his pontificate. She hurried to tell his
confessor who requested her to go five times to the tomb of Pope Pius
V and to the tomb of Saint Pudentiana at the church of Santa
Pudenziana. God later appeared to Mora and confirmed that Pius VI had
been assumed into heaven.
In late December 1824 she became ill - the death of her
mother-in-law on 12 December exacerbated this - and she summoned her
daughters to her when she felt that her death was near. At 7:00pm
she called Lucina to her and requested that she take all of her
writings and to give them to her confessor; she confided that she
wanted to burn them but would have them given to her confessor out of
obedience. Bl. Mora died during the evening on 5 February 1825 while
her two daughters were caring for her. Her husband Cristoforo
arrived too late at her deathbed and wept when he saw her dead in the
bed; it was there that he repented and felt great shame for his
conduct during their marriage. Her prediction came to fruition for
her husband joined the Trinitarian Order and later became an ordained
priest - in the name of "Antonio" - of the Conventual
Franciscans in Sezze and died there on 9 September 1845 (he was
ordained in 1834). Her remains were interred in the San Carlo alle
Quattro Fontane church in Rome. Her nun daughter became the
Superioress of the Oblate Nuns of Saint Philip Neri in Rome as "Maria
Josephina" while her nephew Romualdo Canori was a professed
brother and the then Vicar-General of the De La Salle Brothers.
The beatification process commenced in Rome in an informative
process that opened on 6 September 1864 and later concluded not too
long after in July 1867. The formal introduction to the cause came
under Pope Pius IX on 26 February 1874 who titled her as a Servant of
God while Pope Pius XI later confirmed her heroic virtue and named
her as Venerable on 26 February 1928.
St. Pope John Paul II later beatified her on 24 April 1994 at
Saint Peter's Square.
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Her vision of Christmas, Dec. 25, 1816: - OUR LADY HERSELF WILL WITHDRAW HER MERCY and CALL FOR JUSTICE
Our Lady, appeared extremely sad. Upon inquiring why, Our Lady
answered, “Behold, my daughter, such great ungodliness.” Blessed
Elizabeth then saw “apostates brazenly trying to rip her most holy Son
from her arms." Confronted with such an outrage, the Mother of God ceased
to ask mercy for the world, and instead requested justice from the
Eternal Father. Clothed in His inexorable Justice and full of
indignation, he turned to the world.
“At that moment all nature went into convulsions, the world lost its normal order and was filled with the most terrible calamity imaginable. This will be something so deplorable and atrocious that it will reduce the world to the ultimate depths of desolation.”
“At that moment all nature went into convulsions, the world lost its normal order and was filled with the most terrible calamity imaginable. This will be something so deplorable and atrocious that it will reduce the world to the ultimate depths of desolation.”
(NOTE: it appears the attempt to 'rip Our Lord from her arms by apostates' may mean a sudden surge in Catholics who have left the faith and who will attempt to deny the dogma of Our Lady being the Mother of God and that she is not due any honour, and that only Christ is due honour, similar to what many 'Christian' sects proclaim.
We see this ties in with Fatima in that Our Lady gave a message peace would come (without the cataclysm) if along with the consecration of Russia, enough people were changing their lives, no longer sinning, and also by completing the Five First Saturdays in reparation for the five blasphemies committed against her Immaculate Heart. One of the five blasphemies is against her divine maternity and which are carried out by persons
refusing at the same time to accept her as the Mother of mankind. However, Our Lady at Fatima left her prophecy open and said if this was not done, then the punishments would come and nations annihilated before the peace. Obviously, the blasphemies against her will be too great and not enough reparation done, and this is what will cause her to stand back and allow God's justice take over for a time.
Of interest, this also ties in with the prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny. Our Lord told Marie-Julie Jahenny the timing of the Age of Peace and the arrival of the restoration shall be left to His Mother, but, Marie-Julie was also told of a time of great apostasy was coming, therefore we know the chastisements will to happen first. Not enough reparation will be made and God will have to step in once His mother stands back. Even by doing so, this will bring the peace in the end. As she said in Fatima, 'In the end, my Heart will triumph').
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Bl. Mora's visions of the Future Chastisement due to the Corruption of
the Church – Compacts will be made against the Church (Masonic pacts?) - Hell will be Let Loose to Destroy the Evil Ones (
Satan's Century?) - There
will be places of shelter for faithful Catholics, St. Peter will
choose the new pope (Angelic Pontiff?) after the great devastation of
the Church and the earth and the Church will be renewed – all shall
convert to the Catholic Church – the Triumph of the Church (Age of
Peace).
“On the Feast of St. Peter, 29th of
June, 1820, whilst I was praying for the wants of the Church and the conversion of sinners,
amongst whom I am the first, I was ravished in spirit, and drawn very
near to God. Through an infinite light I was so intimately united to
him that I lost all sentiments of myself The sweet impressions of the
love of God replenished me with an inexpressible joy and
satisfaction. My soul, however, remained calm in these tokens of
Divine kindness. Then it seemed to me to behold the heavens opening,
and St. Peter, prince of the Apostles, coming down, surrounded with
great glory and by a numerous escort of heavenly spirits, singing
canticles. St. Peter was dressed in his pontifical robes, and held in
his right hand the pastoral staff, with which he used to draw upon
the earth an immense cross: at the same time the angels sang these
words of the Psalmist, “Constitues eos principes super omnem
terram” — You will constitute them princes over the whole earth.
“After this the holy Apostle touched
with his staff the four extremities of the cross, from which
instantly sprung up four beautiful trees loaded with blossoms and
fruits. These mysterious trees had the form of a cross, and were
surrounded by a splendid light. Then I comprehended in the depth of
my soul that St. Peter had produced these four symbolic trees to the
end that they may serve as a place of refuge to the little flocks of
the faithful friends of Jesus Christ, and in order to preserve them
from the fearful punishment which shall convulse the whole earth. All
good Christians shall then be protected under these trees,
together with all those religious persons who shall have faithfully
preserved in their hearts the spirit of their order. I say the same
thing in relation to the secular clergy and to all other persons of
every class who shall have kept in their heart the Catholic faith,
they shall all be protected.
But woe, to those religious who do not
observe their rule! Thrice unhappy they! For they shall all be struck
by that terrible punishment. I say the same to all secular clergy,
and to all classes of people in the world who give themselves to a
life of pleasure, and who follow the false maxims of modern ideas,
which are opposed to the holy precepts of the gospel. These
wretched people, who through their scandalous conduct deny the faith
of Jesus Christ, shall perish under the weight of the indignant arm
of God’s justice. Not one of them shall be able to escape the
punishment.
I beheld those good Christians, who had
sought a refuge under those mysterious trees, in the form of
beautiful lambs confided to the care and vigilance of St. Peter,
their good shepherd, testifying to him the most humble and most
respectful obedience. As soon as St Peter, the prince of the
Apostles, had gathered the flock of Jesus in a place of safety, he
reascended into heaven, accompanied by legions of angels. Scarcely
had they disappeared, when the sky was covered with clouds so dense
and dismal that it was impossible to look at them without dismay. On
a sudden there burst out such a terrible and violent wind, that its
noise seemed like the roars of furious lions. The sound of the
dreadful hurricane was heard over the whole earth. Fear and terror
struck not only men, but the very beasts. (NOTE: this freakish storm
as the first major warning has been predicted by other mystics).
“All men shall rise one against the
other, and they shall kill one another without pity. (i.e great wars
/ genocides, revolutions) During this sanguinary conflict the
avenging arm of God will strike the wicked, and in his mighty power
he will punish their pride and presumption. God will employ the
powers of hell for the extermination of these impious and heretical
persons who desire to overthrow the Church and destroy it to its very
foundation. These presumptuous men in their mad impiety believe that
they can overthrow God from his throne; but the Lord will despise
their artifices, and through an effect of his almighty hand he will
punish these impious blasphemers by giving permission to the infernal
spirits to come out from hell. Innumerable legions of demons shall
overrun the earth, and shall execute the orders of Divine justice by
causing terrible calamities and disasters; they shall attack
everything; they shall injure individual persons and entire families;
they shall devastate property and alimentary productions, cities and
villages. Nothing on earth shall be spared. God will allow the
demons to strike with death those impious men, because they gave
themselves up to the infernal powers, and had formed with them a
compact against the Catholic Church.”
(NOTE the words -- 'infernal powers that formed with them a COMPACT against the Catholic Church', there will be a veritable effort to destroy the Church to where a pact, treaty or contract will be made. Sounds very much like Marie-Julie Jahenny's prophecies of a conspiracy to start the revolts in France and the world to destroy the Church, and, evil people will make compacts with the devil. Freemasons will be a huge part of it according to what is revealed in the Marie-Julie Jahenny's visions.)
Back to Bl. Elisabetta Mora: "Being desirous of more fully
penetrating my spirit with a deeper sentiment of his divine justice,
God showed to me the awful abyss; I saw in the bowels of the earth a
dark and frightful cavern, whence an infinite number of demons were
issuing forth, who under the form of men and beasts came to ravage
the world, leaving everywhere ruins and blood. Happy will be all
true and good Catholics ! They shall experience the powerful
protection of the holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, who will
watch over them lest they may be injured either in their persons or
their property. Those evil spirits shall plunder every place where
God has been outraged, despised, and blasphemed; the edifices they profaned will
be pulled down and destroyed, and nothing but ruins shall remain of
them.
“After this frightful punishment I
saw the heavens opening, and St. Peter coming down again upon earth;
he was vested in his pontifical robes, and surrounded by a great
number of angels, who were chanting hymns in his honor, and they
proclaimed him as sovereign of the earth. I saw also St. Paul
descending upon the earth. By God’s command, he traversed the
earth and unchained the demons, whom he brought before St. Peter, who
commanded them to return into hell, whence they had come.
“Then a great light appeared upon
the earth, which was the sign of the reconciliation of God with man.
The angels conducted before the throne of the prince of the Apostles
the small flock that had remained faithful to Jesus Christ. These
good and zealous Christians testified to him the most profound
respect, praising God and thanking the Apostles for having delivered
them from the common destruction, and for having protected the Church
of Jesus Christ by not permitting her to be infected with the false
maxims of the world. St. Peter then chose the new pope. The Church
was again organized; religious orders were reestablished; the private
families of ordinary Christians, through their great fervor and zeal
for the glory of God, became like the most exemplary religious
communities. Such is the glorious triumph reserved for the Catholic
Church; she shall be praised, honored, and esteemed by all men. All
men shall become Catholics, and shall acknowledge the Pope as Vicar
of Jesus. Christ. Amen.”
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(Published 2019 - updated 2024).
