Sr. Jeanne de Le Royer of the Nativity (1731-1798)



SISTER JEANNE de LE ROYER of the NATVITY (1731-1798)





Jeanne de le Royer was born into a poor family in the little village of Beaulot not far from Fougères in Brittany, France. From an early age she discerned a vocation to enter the religious life, and making a vow of chastity, she overcame all the opposition of the devil, the world, and the flesh to remain true to that call. She was devoted to her guardian angel and Our Lady, and was devoted to the Blessed Sacrament.



At the age of fifteen or sixteen she lost her father, she then planned to live with her mother in order to support her, but her mother died soon as well, and Jeanne, who was then left destitute, had no other wish than to obtain admission into some convent as servant, the better to keep.her vow of chastity and secure her salvation. She wished to enter the convent of the Urbanists at Fougères, which is a Poor Clare convent. It appears she was met with some opposition to entering due to her inability to pay the required dowry, but at last she was at last admitted as a charitable entrant, and upon taking the vows she assumed the name of Sister Nativité, or Sister of the Nativity as she has become known in English.



Sister of the Nativity entered with the best will upon all the virtues of her profession and lived a life of penance and mortification with vigils, fasting, haircloth and self-flagellation forming a part of this spiritual regimen. She sometimes laid thistles and nettles in her bed, one day she was surprised in the act of sipping gall mixed with other things equally disgusting as an act of mortification.



She once suffered a tumour on the knee which grew after an operation, but it was miraculously cured after a novena was offered for her by the sisters of the convent. While she was cured this one time, she suffered other health complaints through her life.



As her virtues increased, so did other spiritual gifts, for she was given the gift of reading of hearts, she foretold to several people what would happen to them, and she was granted many visions, including those of the future, and even of the Last Judgement



Her visions were written down by her spiritual director, Abbé Genet, who she told not to release them until the 'indicate time' had come. Apparently, she revealed to him when her visions should be released, which was some time after her death. She died on the Assumption of 1798, with the crucifix before her, the vows of her profession on her breast, and holy water at her side, with which, according to her desire, she was repeatedly sprinkled. She was buried in the cemetery of Languelet according to her wishes.





Abbé Genet published the first edition of her visions in 1817 under the title, “Vie et révélations de la Soeur Nativité, religieuse converse au couvent des Urbanistes de Fougères” and it went through several reprints.



Abbé Genet took pains to ensure they contained no spiritual or theological error and assures the reader in the book that many priests and theologians had read it and found it to be very salutary. The editor of the second printing of the book in 1819 also assures the reader; “The work has been read and examined by more than a hundred profound theologians, namely: seven or eight bishops and archbishops, 20 or 30 vicars-general of different dioceses, doctors and professors of theology, abbots, authors of various works estimated even academics; more than 80 parish priests, vicars and other French and English priests who are also pious and learned; not to mention several very educated people of the world, who read it with the same edification and contentment.”



Hence, while Sister Jeanne Royer of the Nativity has not been declared Venerable, Blessed, or a Saint, it appears her work has not been officially condemned, nor have I found any recent modern condemnation of it either. So, it appears we may safely read her visions with discernment until further official declaration of the Church.



Her work is in three Volumes, the following are just extracts that pertain to the age of the world just after the French Revolution and before the appearance of the Antichrist.


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SYNOPSIS OF THIS EXTRACT: Sister of the Nativity is shown the difference between the interior state of a False Christian and a Good Willed Pagan Idolater who doesn't know any better.   She then states FRANCE has become like the False Apostate Christian doomed to Hell for refusing God's graces while all the time pretending to be one of Christ's followers, while the Pagan is given grace to be saved. This represents other nations receiving grace where it is rejected by others.



After this she explains a visions she received of how France had fallen into this sad state, it is of the French Revolution and the New Constitution it brought about. (As we know, the Revolution was foment by the Masons.) The Revolution brought an end to the status of France as a Kingdom and a Catholic Nation and transformed it into a 'Free Republic'. Its evil effects will continue to infect France, Our Lord says the Church must one day destroy the effects of this Constitution. An Age of Renewal will occur.


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“Jesus Christ, clothed in a cloak, walked most often before me: He led me thus to a height situated in the middle of a vast country; there he made me see two men standing motionless, distant from each other with a good stone throw; we placed ourselves in the middle of this space;. he was a Christian and (the other) an idolater. Jesus Christ said to me, pointing at the Christian placed on our right, on the side of the East:

“Here is the unhappy apostate child of my Church; he has extinguished in him the light of faith, he knows me no more, he blushes of my doctrine and does not (text missing) only to get away from Me …”

And indeed, I noticed that he had his back turned towards Jesus Christ, while the back of the other (the idolater) was only half turned, since he was on the side, having the shoulder towards us.

Suddenly, by a divine light, Jesus Christ made me penetrate into the interior of the first (i.e the Christian), and I saw there a conscience so criminal, that the only memory makes me still shudder … . It was a frightful disorder of abominable crimes! A certain light that passed through this dark chaos, made me see all the horrors. Yes, my Father, in favour of this ray I saw terrifying spectres, monsters of different kinds, sizes, and figures, who, always on the move, seemed to clash, fight, and fight each other, to tumble, to pass and to pass again and again on top of each other; in their struggle, when they seemed a little to part, and to part, by falling backwards and forwards, they let me see a multitude, an infinity of other little monsters, even more hideous figures, who, like an anthill, seemed to be reborn and to reproduce; they went out buried in certain recesses where they had been hidden under the greatest; this apparition, my Father, inspired me with such terror that I was half dead; I saw only around me the shadow of death, the image of hell and the last misfortune; for such a consciousness is only the transport to the unhappy eternity.

From there Jesus Christ turned to the idolater placed on the opposite side of the West, and said, showing it to me: “To every reasonable soul I have printed a certain idea of My existence and even a certain attraction to know Me and to adore Me, which is why the infidels, abusing this first grace, and behaving only through the senses, take the change and make gods to their own fantasy, gods in accordance with their ideas rude, and favourable to the passions they want to satisfy ... .”

Then, turning to Me, he said to me:

“You will see and admire the power of My grace on the soul of an unfaithful to whom I want to communicate the lights of my faith.”

At the same moment I saw a ray of Divinity, which, like a flash of flame, penetrated into the interior of this happy infidel, and showed me all that was happening there as clearly as that which appeared in it. Outside: at first, this idolater, who had hitherto only appeared to one side, turned himself and placed himself straight in front of Jesus Christ. I observed on his exterior and on his face a certain air of terror mingled with a certain admiration of surprise: then, considering the depths of his soul, I saw that this trait had made him know the true God, creator of heaven and earth, supreme arbiter of life and death.

“Ah!” he exclaimed in himself, and by interior lamentations, “I had been deceived, here is the true God! Here He is, whom my heart desired, whom my mind sought, whose whole nature announced to me His existence. It resounded in my heart, I felt it in spite of myself without being able to agree with it. What blindness! that man is impotent without the help of his Author, since he can not himself seize the evidence that presents itself and surrounds it with its striking characters! Finally, I found it; but how have I lived so long without having the happiness of knowing him and loving him? Yes, here is my Author and my sovereign, the one by whom and for whom I feel that I am done! From that moment on, I renounce for ever the false deities, to whom I no longer wish to offer my adorations or my incense.”

At these words, without swinging, he prostrates himself and adores with heart, mind, and body, the high majesty of the true God, the first homage rendered to the Divinity of his being. To this illustrative and preparatory grace, God wished to add another still more precious, and which, however, was in a way only an increase and an increase; I mean, the desire for the three theological virtues that came to be painted in his soul with the knowledge and faith of the three persons of the Most Holy Trinity, the mystery of the Incarnation, the only true Church, and baptism that gives us the entrance by regenerating us at Jesus Christ. A still more precious grace, if we can say it, is that this happy convert begins to love with all his heart the God whom he now has the happiness to know: as he believes in Him, he hopes to see Him one day in the blessed eternity: finally, he reaches out to Him with all his might, he even has an insatiable desire to reach Him by the holy baptism which is the door (to Him). It was then that he painfully recalls the indecent mockery and taunts he had perhaps done so many times against the truths of which he feels himself penetrated today. The first knowledge of the religion of the true God, he had previously taken only for the opportunity to despise: yet he feels that these first knowledge was a seed of faith, that the Divine goodness had, as unknowingly, hidden in his heart to make it one day germinate and fruit; it was there, without being aware of it himself, while waiting for the happy moment: he introduced himself, or rather Providence had spared him, and grace profited at the same time, and from the favourable opportunity and disposition of this man to triumph over all that hinders his salvation. That’s all I’ve seen inside his soul.

“It is thus,” Jesus Christ then tells me, “That my grace and my enlightenment are taken away from the one who abuses it, to pass on to the one who makes it more worthy, and that by the same substitution My religion itself passes from one nation to another … I assure you,’ He went on, ‘that if these two men die in their present state, the one who has the appearance of the Christian will be eternally reprobate, and the one who has the appearance the idolater will be eternally happy, because with the baptism of desire he has, by infusion, faith and all the virtues essential to the salvation of the Christian, and that he is united to my Church even though among the infidels, while the other (the reprobate Christian) has no virtues, but all the vices of idolaters; he will be lost like them, and his character will only serve his shame and condemnation.”


This is the unfortunate disposition in which France has been for so many years, (i.e like the the false Apostate Christian) and this unfortunate disposition is the principal, or at least the most universal, cause of the general upheaval and the numberless misfortunes she will soon experience. This disaster, and disastrous revolution of our fatherland, a long time ago, my Father, (i.e. Speaking to her spiritual director, Fr. Genet), it has been figured to me still in the way that I will tell you to end this interview:


I was in spirit on the summit of a beautiful mountain, where I enjoyed a pure air and a glimpse of a most charming horizon. On this beautiful mountain rose a house very regularly built and of a most imposing appearance; what shocked me was to see all the free avenues, and all the entrances open on all sides to the strangers who flocked there in crowds with a very dissipated air.


While I admired everything with very attentive eyes, I observed that the air was suddenly obscured by the vapors which rose from the earth, and which, reaching the middle region, formed a black and thick cloud, which was insensibly pushed towards the mountain by a burning wind, which started from a certain side of the horizon. This evil vapor, which stole the light of day, announced a terrible storm, as well as the whirlwind which agitated it. I suspected a disaster; but I perceived under the cloud a sensible object, which for a moment made me count on a help from above. It was a kind of crescent, of a red colour, which was agitated in all directions by a very hasty movement. I did not know if I should hope or fear of this apparition that I could not understand: the more it advanced, the more I saw its agitation increase, and the more I felt that my anxiety increased.


At last, as far as the mountain, it is detached from the cloud, and comes, as it were, to fall at my feet. O God, my Father, what a fright! It was a dreadful dragon, whose body covered with scales of different colours, presented a frightening aspect; he had fire in his eyes and rage in his heart, he proudly raised his head and his tail; and armed with his claws and a double row of long, deadly teeth, he threatened to put everything in pieces. He immediately rushed to the beautiful house, and yet taking a certain detour, as if to avoid me, although he seemed very animated against me. I shuddered at this sight, and my first impulse was to shout with all my strength that we closed the doors and took care of the fury of the dragon … They listened to me with a distracted and mocking air: they took me for a madwoman, a visionary, an extravagant. No one took pains to profit by my advice, and all my zeal was only paid for by ironies and insults.

However, the dragon was advancing, and already he had made victims of his rage. I began to open my eyes and ask for help when God commanded me to attack the monster and prevent it from doing harm. But what appearance, I said, that a poor girl like myself, without arms and without strength, who does not even have the courage to think of it, can ever get through it? Although I defended myself, it was necessary to obey the order which required the sacrifice of my life for the salvation of all. I did it, without further deliberations. So I rushed on the dragon, to stop him and fight him … O prodigy! Scarcely had I attacked him, than he could resist me; it was the lion in the hands of Samson. At that moment I tore it to pieces, despite all its efforts … I tore, in a vehement transport, its throbbing limbs; and the spectators understood the danger of which I had delivered them.


It has been a long time, Father, before this vision has been explained to me. Finally, Jesus Christ has just given me the meaning, almost in these terms:

“Remember, my daughter, the vision you had in such circumstances of your youth.”

I remembered it, as I have just told you; on that He said to me:


The mountain where you were then, represented the kingdom of France; doors and avenues were open to all foreigners, because for a long time the dissipation and curiosity of the Frenchman, and even more so the love of liberty, which are so natural to him, made him very susceptible to innovations in fact of belief, (i.e. innovations in the dogmas of faith) and very capable of giving in the most extravagant systems. There is nothing that can not be admitted with such dispositions.

(I.e. There is nothing from stopping from every kind of error from being admitted with these free-thinking dispositions: it is interesting that the dragon in Sister of the Nativity's vision took the form of a crescent, the symbol of Islam, and that being open to all 'foriegners' is and will be the cause of misfortune in France. This seems exactly like the warnings given to Marie-Julie Jahenny who revealed a great apostasy would happen, France would become Muslim and deny the Divinity of Christ, France would open its borders, and Paris would be made miserable after opening its borders to all tongues and foreigners. In one instance they are called the 'dust of the foreigners', a phrase meaning the 'worst' of them.).


Our Lord continues to Sister of the Nativity; “ These gross vapours which have risen from the earth and which have darkened the light of the sun, are the principles of irreligion and debauchery which, partly produced in France, and partly from abroad, have arrived to confuse all the principles, to spread darkness everywhere and to darken even the torch of faith, like that of reason … The storm has pushed towards France, which must be the first theatre of its ravage after having the object which appeared under the cloud was the revolution or the new constitution which is being prepared for France; it seemed to you to come from heaven, though only the vapours of the earth were formed; you have known it only by seeing it, according to his form and his disastrous projects; likewise, the new constitution will appear to many others than it is; it will be blessed as a present from heaven even though it is only a present of hell that heaven allows in its just anger: it will be only by its effects that you will be forced to recognise the dragon who wanted to destroy everything and devour all … . Finally, by My order and My help you have triumphed. Here, My daughter, you represent My assembled Church, which must one day defeat and destroy the vicious principle of this criminal constitution. This is still the small work of which I will give you the ideas, which must so fight the efforts of the dragon and cause him so much displeasure, that he would die of spite, if he could ever succumb to his infernal rage.”


There is no doubt, Father, (of) very terrible misfortunes; but I must not conceal from you the hopes that God gives me of the restoration of religion and the recovery of the powers of our Holy Father the Pope. What a consolation for you and for me! What joy for all true believers! I see in the Divinity a great power led by the Holy Spirit, and which, by a second upheaval, will restore good orderI see in God a large assembly of ministers of the Church, who, like an army arrayed in battle and as a firm and steadfast column, will uphold the rights of the Church and her head, restore her former discipline; In particular, I see two ministers of the Lord who will be distinguished in this glorious struggle by the virtue of the Holy Spirit, who will inflame with ardent zeal all the hearts of this illustrious assembly. (NOTE: Could this be the Great Monarch and Angelic Pontiff?)

All false cults will be abolished, I mean, all the abuses of the revolution will be destroyed, and the altars of the true God will be restored. Old usages will be reinstated; and religion, at least in some respects, will become more flourishing than ever. But, alas! Lord, when will come this happy time … and how long will it last? It’s probably a secret that You are reserving Yourself for Yourself; I only see here that at the approach of the last advent of Jesus Christ, there will be a bad priest who will cause much affliction to the Church; but on the other circumstances a thick curtain hides me and the length of time, and the time of its deliverance … The will of God forbids me to go further … Let’s stay there for today, Father, because I am afraid to tire you, or at least to abuse your complacency. Tomorrow, if you find it good, we will speak of a very important point for all the nations of the earth.


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THE END OF TIME – We are in the LAST CENTURY


“(…) One day I found myself in a vast plain alone with God. Jesus appeared to me and from the top of a small hill showing me a beautiful sun in the horizon. He said dolefully: “the world is passing away and the time of My coming draws near. When the sun is about to set one knows that the day is nearly over and that night will soon fall. Centuries are like days for Me. Look at this sun; see how much it still has to travel and estimate the time that is left in the world.” I looked intently and it seemed to me that the sun would set in about 2 hours. Jesus said “Do not forget that those are not millenaries but only centuries and they are few in number,” but I understood that Jesus reserved to Himself the knowledge of the exact number and I did not wish to ask Him more. It sufficed me to know the peace of the church and the restoration of the discipline were to last a reasonably long time (…).”



(NOTE: considering that she died in 1798, she saw an estimated two centuries, so up until the mid 1900s, but that God knew the exact number, there is more time given but we don't have another millennium, and not a lot of centuries left! There will be a restoration of the Church before the Second Coming and it will last for a reasonably long time before the Antichrist and the End of Time.)

(Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy, Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford Illinois 1973, p. 56-

59)


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MORE ABOUT THE TIMING OF THESE EVENTS – an EVIL CENTURY

“Many precursors, false prophets, and members of the infernal secret societies, worshippers of Satan, shall impugn the most sacred dogmas and doctrines of our holy religion, shall persecute the faithful, shall commit abominable actions; but the real and extreme abomination and desolation shall more fully be accomplished during the reign of Antichrist, Which shall last about three years and a half. Woe, woe, woe to the last century which is descending! What tribulations precede its commencements. Out of this mighty voice I recognised that these woeful tribulations will make their appearance in the age before the judgement. And I ponder over and weighed, in God, the century, I saw, that which begins with 1800 will not yet be the last. I see that when the Second Coming of Christ approaches, a bad priest will do much harm to the Church.

(NOTE: since she saw the world had only about 2 centuries left, maybe a bit more depending on God's mercy for she saw only He knew the real time, it is interesting to see that an age of tribulation here – a century, and it will begin c. 1800. When this century is over, she says, it is not the last, so if the world has about two left from 1800, maybe just a little more time according to the previous excerpt, the Age of Peace and then the reign of Antichrist is coming sometime in the 21st century, which is in keeping with other prophetic revelations.)

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ANOTHER REVELATION – Possibly, this is also referring to the Apostasy and evil of the world that will come before the Age of Peace, as well as the rise of the Antichrist afterwards.


Sister of the Nativity: “I see in God that long before the antichrist arrives, the world will be afflicted with bloody wars; peoples will rise against nations, nations against nations, sometimes united and sometimes divided, to fight for or against the same party; the armies will shock each other frightfully, and fill the earth with murder and carnage. These internal and foreign wars will cause enormous sacrileges, profanations, scandals, infinite evils, by the incursions that will be made in the Holy Church, usurping her rights, from which she will receive great afflictions … .

Besides this, I see that the earth will be shaken in different places by tremors and terrible tremors. I see mountains that split and burst with a crash that throws terror into the surroundings. Too happy if we left it for noise and fear! But, no, I see these mountains, separated and half-open, emerging from the mountains, whirlwinds of flame, smoke, sulphur, and bitumen, which reduce whole cities to ashes. All this and a thousand other disasters must precede the coming of the Man of Sin … .

Jesus Christ showed me a certain narrow, dark and dark path, surrounded by satellites and armed people to prohibit the approach Suddenly appeared a strong and robust man, who was willing to go through this way: he held a torch in his left hand, and a double-edged sword on the right. He entered the dark path, walking by the light of his torch, and fighting on the right and left with his sword, as if he had had an entire army to fight. There were a great number of precipices around the dark road where the satellites were trying to knock him down. Finally, despite their pitfalls and their efforts, this powerful and courageous man arrived happily at the end, and then turned to his enemies to insult in turn their weakness and their cowardice... .

The closer we get to the reign of the antichrist and the end of the world, Jesus Christ tells me in explaining this apparition, the more the darkness of Satan will be poured out on the earth, and the more his satellites will make efforts to bring down the faithful in its traps and nets. To escape so many dangers, it will be necessary for the Christian to walk with his sword and torch in his hand, and to arm himself with courage like this robust man whom you have just admired.

The closer we come to the end of the world, the more I see that the number of children of perdition is increasing, and that that of the predestined is decreasing in the same proportion. This diminution of some and this increase of others will be done in three different ways, which Jesus Christ has indicated to me: 1st, by the great number of the elect whom he will attract to Him, to shield them from the terrible scourges which will strike his Church; 2nd,. by the great number of martyrs, which will greatly diminish the children of God, and yet will strengthen faith in those whom the sword of persecution has not reaped; 3rd. by the multitude of apostates who will renounce Jesus Christ to follow the party of his enemy, fighting the mysteries and the great truths of religion.


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OTHER EXCERPTS OF HER VISIONS:


“(…) One night I saw a number of ecclesiastics. Their haughtiness and air of severity seemed to demand the respect of all. They forced the faithful to follow them. But God commanded me to oppose them. ‘They no longer have the right to speak in My name’ Jesus told me ‘It is against My wish that they carry out a mandate for which they are no longer worthy. (...)”


“(…) I saw a great power rise up in the Church. It plundered, devastated and threw into confusion
and disorder the vine of the Lord, having it trampled under foot by the people and holding it up to
ridicule by all nations. Having vilified celibacy and oppressed the priesthood, it had the effrontery
to confiscate the Church’s property and to arrogate for itself the powers of the Holy Father, whose
person and laws it held in contempt.”

“(…) I see in God that a long time before the rise of Antichrist the world will be afflicted with many bloody wars. Peoples will rise up against peoples and nations will rise against nations sometimes allied, sometimes enemies in their fight against the same party. Armies will come into frightful collisions and will fill the earth with murder and carnage (…).”

“(…) These infernal and foreign wars will cause enormous sacrifices, profanations, scandals
and infinite evils, because of the incursions that will have been made into the Church (…).”


“I saw in the light of the lord that the faith and our Holy religion would become weaker in almost every Christian kingdom. God has permitted that they should be chastised by the wicked in order to awaken them from their apathy. And after the justice of God has been satisfied he will spread the faith and restore the discipline of the church in those countries where it had become tepid and lax ( …).”

“I saw in God that our mother Holy Church will spread in many countries and will produce her fruits in abundance to compensate for the outrages she has suffered from impiety and persecutions of her enemies…”

“(...)I saw that the poor people weary of the arduous labours and trials that God sent to them shall be thrilled with a joy that God will infuse in their good hearts. The church will become by their faith and by their love more fervent and flourishing than ever. Our good mother the church will witness many amazing things even on the part of her former persecutors for they will come forwards and throw themselves at her feet, acknowledge her and implore pardon from God and from her for all the crimes and outrages that they had perpetrated against her. She will no longer regard them as her enemies but she will instead welcome them as her own children (…).”

“(…) Now all the true penitents will flow from all sides to the Church, which will receive them into her bosom. The entire community of the faithful will pour out their hearts in hymns of penance and thanksgiving to the glory of the Lord (…). ”

(NOTE: excerpts point to a great laxity or apostasy in the Church, but then a Great Renewal, obviously, the promised Age of Peace.)





(Yves Dupont, Catholic Prophecy, Tan Books and Publishers, Rockford Illinois 1973, p. 53-

56)