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 order … I 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)
