!? Sr. Bertina (Bertine)
Bouquillon (Boquillon) (1800-1850)
STATUS: VERY PROBLEMATIC –
FAILED and CONTRADICTORY PROPHECIES, Signs of a fake
This is a tough call, but
her visions are too problematic to be put into the Timeline.
Described as very pious,
her religious vocation started at the age of 16 in a charitable
house. Her devotion to Jesus was so strong that she rejected a
marriage proposal from a rich businessman. In April 1822, Bertina
took her vows at the charity hospital and convent of Saint-Louis. In
September of the same year, she witnessed the apparition of a nun of
the same convent, Sister Joseph, who had died in July. The
apparitions continued and Libertine accepted the task of sharing
Sister Joseph’s pain, who was allegedly in Purgatory.
In October, Sœur Bertina received the stigmata for the first time. Blood flowed from her hands and feet, and the crown of thorns appeared on her forehead. The Mother Superior of the convent informed Mgr de La Tour d’Auvergne, Bishop of Arras, who set up a committee of physicians and theologians to investigate the events. After verifying Bertina's mental and physical health, the bishop argued in favour of the supernatural origin of the phenomena. Soon, curious visitors started to arrive in Saint-Omer, hoping to meet the stigmatic. However, the visits were forbidden by the ecclesiastical authorities and Bertina's sisters were advised not to talk about the events.
Bertina Bouquillon willingly accepted the mandate of the Church. She carried the stigmata for the rest of her life and spent 28 years hiding them from others. It is said that the wounds bled every Friday and during important religious feasts. After her death in 1850, a journalist recalled how in 1822, when rumours about Bertina started to circulate among the population, the ecclesiastical authorities were able to prevent laypeople from witnessing the extraordinary phenomena.
In October, Sœur Bertina received the stigmata for the first time. Blood flowed from her hands and feet, and the crown of thorns appeared on her forehead. The Mother Superior of the convent informed Mgr de La Tour d’Auvergne, Bishop of Arras, who set up a committee of physicians and theologians to investigate the events. After verifying Bertina's mental and physical health, the bishop argued in favour of the supernatural origin of the phenomena. Soon, curious visitors started to arrive in Saint-Omer, hoping to meet the stigmatic. However, the visits were forbidden by the ecclesiastical authorities and Bertina's sisters were advised not to talk about the events.
Bertina Bouquillon willingly accepted the mandate of the Church. She carried the stigmata for the rest of her life and spent 28 years hiding them from others. It is said that the wounds bled every Friday and during important religious feasts. After her death in 1850, a journalist recalled how in 1822, when rumours about Bertina started to circulate among the population, the ecclesiastical authorities were able to prevent laypeople from witnessing the extraordinary phenomena.
She predicted she would
not live to see old age, and died in 1850.
Here were have a
problematic situation: a mystic that apparently had the stigmata,
saw a soul from Purgatory, also St. Raphael and her Guardian Angel,
had a 'Miracle Communion' when the Host flew out of the priest's hand
and went to her mouth, claimed to see the Patriarch Enoch and had a
vision of Hell where she claimed to see may famous people of history,
seemed to be the model of holiness, but then, the timing on her
known major predictions about the Antichrist fell completely flat,
timing which is often craftily edited out or reworded in later
publications so people do not know her predicted timing failed. Here
are her prophecies from the earliest approved publication by Fr.
Curique “Soeur Bertine, la stigmatisée de Saint-Omer” (1872):
1* "The Order of
Brothers-Preachers will bloom again in France." (i.e. the
Dominicans)
2* “ The end of time is
approaching and the Antichrist must not be long in coming.”
“We will not see it,
indeed,” said Sister Bertine, “nor the sisters who will succeed
us; but those who come after will fall under his domination. When he
comes, nothing will be changed in the house; everything will be in
the usual order; in religious exercises, work, occupations in the
wards for the sick, everything will be done as usual, when suddenly
our Sisters learn that he is the master: which will happen at the end
of this century or the beginning of the next. ”
3* “The last of the kings of France will reign at the advent of the
Antichrist, perish in battle, and his body will remain abandoned and
deprived of burial.”
4* "As for the end of
the world, it is not for this century; but from 1900 to 1950, the
judgement will be.”
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Here are the problems and
contradictions that are red flags.
-- The obvious failure in
dates. She didn't just say the Antichrist will come anywhere between
1900 to 1950, but that the Day of Judgement would happen. It didn't.
The Antichrist hasn't even appeared yet, and we're now into August
2020 as I'm writing this.
-- Her prophecy about the
sisters who would see the Antichrist failed, she given an indication
of about 3 generations of nuns – the third would see him, but if
this prophecy was made from 1822 when she allegedly first received
the 'stigmata' to the time of her death in 1850, three generations of
about 20 to 30 years each would put the calculations from about
1882-1912 to 1910-1940, which probably accounts for the dates she
gave of 1900 to 1950 to announce the Day of Judgement. We can see
this has all completely failed.
Then, another failure –
the Great Monarch's reign didn't happen yet at all according to her
timing. If we take into account the reign of the Antichrist, which
we know will last at least 3 and a half years, plus the estimated
time of the Great Monarch's reign according to the credible
prophecies, which would be from 25 to 50 years, (meaning there would
have to be 28 and half years to 53 and half years before the Day of
Judgement when the two are combined), then subtract these combination
from her earliest date for the 'Day of Judgement' of 1900- the reign
of the Great Monarch should have started at least c. 1847 to c. 1872,
or thereabouts. If we subtract 28.5 and also 53.5 from her
longest possible date of 1950, the Great Monarch's reign should have
happened circa c. 1897 to c. 1922. All completely off.
-- It could be argued she
foresaw the time of desolation the Church has entered now with abuses
that have happened since Vatican 2, as her date of 1950 is very close
to it and she said things will seem to go on as 'normal' before it
strikes everyone the Antichrist is master, but even so, authentic
prophecies show we're in an 'Antichrist PRECURSOR period' not the
actual time of the Antichrist. The timing is still way off,
especially as mentioned we have yet the reign of the Great Monarch to
happen before the Antichrist, and that certainly hasn't happened
either. Also, the Antichrist will not be so 'hidden' he is
practically invisible as he rises – we know from the Scriptures he will reveal
himself after a great apostasy, and the Fathers and Doctors agree
there will be demonic miracles he will be perform to fool people into
thinking he is the Messiah, especially the Jews, so it stands to
reason he cannot be so hidden the elect will not see him rise at some
point. To not 'see' him rise until the absolute last moment is pushing it!
-- Sr. Bertina's timing
also contradicts Bl Catherine Emmerich who said Satan would just
begin to be loosed about 50 or 60 years before the year 2000,
(that would be 1940, to 1950, aka Satan's Century as foretold by Pope
Leo XIII), and we know the Age of Peace with the Great Monarch
followed by the Antichrist come after that, therefore Sr. Bertina's
timing is way off of Bl Emmerick's, by a whole century. Marie-Julie
Jahenny was told she would live to see just the 'spark' that would
start the chastisements, and she lived to see WWII. So, Sr. Bertina
is way off from the timing of some credible mystics.
--- It could be argued God
will mercifully delay the timing of the chastisements if enough
sacrifice and prayer is offered in atonement – but, in authentic
prophecies if God is willing to delay the timing, an indication of
that is usually given in the message too, asking the people to make
sacrifices in atonement, etc. which apparently is not included her
prophecies, at least the ones were know are from her.
The clergy at the time
ordered her to hide her stigmata, and, the nuns were ordered to keep
everything quiet about it, except when Fr. Curique's biography of her
was given official Church approval about twenty years later, so to
have half of her published prophecies in one of the earliest
biographies of her to go wrong, and, they contradict the Great
Monarch prophecies and Bl Catherine Emmerick, shows something is
“off”.
However, she was said to
be very holy. She died in the order of sanctity with the last rites
the Church, having predicted she would not live to see old age. The
sisters of the convent who knew her would continually share memories
of her heroic virtue.
So what happened?
Sr. Bertina could have
been a mystic that was probably duped herself, had fake miracles,
and, managed to fool the clergy of her day and it was never
discovered?
It is quite
possible. There was a nun that duped her convert and the clergy
before, the infamous case of Sr.
Magdelena of the Cross (1487-1560)
Everyone thought she was a living saint, there were many strange
miracles that happened around her, but the ruse only came out years
later when she at last admitted she made a pact with the devil and
how he taught her to fake 'miraculous Communions', etc. The devil
can also cause fake stigmata. We have another case with Palma
Maria Mattarelli d'Oria (1825-1888) who had the stigmata, made
prophecies, was believed to be very holy, but was condemned by the
Vatican Inquisition, click here
We have several fakes today spreading doctrinal errors who have the
'stigmata', such
as Gisella Cardia, click for info, but those marks cannot be
Heaven sent if the mystics are preaching serious doctrinal errors.
They probably think the 'visions' they are seeing are real
apparitions from Heaven.
Personally, I see
something quite 'sadistic' about Sr. Bertina's one known prophecy of
the Monarch that shows something completely uncharitable and almost
'demonic' at work – aka, that the Great Monarch would die in a
great battle, but would not even have the dignity of a Christian
burial and his body 'abandoned' left to the elements to rot, and,
possibly to desecration. The key word is 'abandoned'. Even Christ
was granted a borrowed grave and Our Lady had a tomb. Even if the
Great Monarch died in a great battle which would be difficult to
retrieve his body from, I cannot see how the pious Christian soldiers
of his army would abandon the body and not try and do everything to
secure some form of burial for the Great Monarch or do something so
his body is not desecrated, even it means cremation.
Just take St.
Louis IX for instance. We are told in authentic prophecies that the
Great Monarch will be another St. Louis, and, despite the long
distance away from home St. Louis IX fought in the Crusades, when he
died they did what they could to return his body to home soil – as
embalming techniques were not readily available on the battlefields
of war in a strange country, the only thing Crusader knights could do
to prepare him for the long journey back to Europe was to preserve
his heart and intestines, boil the flesh off his bones, and bring the
skeleton back to France. Gruesome, but at least he was returned home
and the rest of his body was given a royal burial with what possible
dignity they could do under the circumstances. To have any burial
denied to the Great Monarch and abandon his body to rot or suffer
desecration at the hands of the enemy seems like something Satan
would want to do if he had the chance. We know from the revelations
of Marie-Julie Jahenny that Satan hates the Great Monarch so much as
he is a great saint who will put a halt to his demonic reign on earth
for a time. Satan is a sadist – if he could do anything to demean
or harm the Great Monarch, even his body after death, he would do it.
To have the Great Monarch's remains completely abandoned, desecrated
and denied a Christian burial, this sounds more like a wish that
Satan would like to see accomplished rather than a prophecy from
Heaven. This part of Sr. Bertina's prophecies also seems 'off'.
They have several red
flags indicating something is just not right.
There is also the added
problem of several other more detailed prophecies that are
misattributed to her and actually originate from the 'Nun of Bellay'
prophecies, which are also fake as the earliest printed texts of
those show. Either the 'Nun of Bellay' prophecies are a completely
unrelated set of forgeries, or, someone had heard of the 'hidden
stigmatic nun of the nursing order' at Saint-Omer, aka Sr. Bertina,
and tried to capitalize on her. We can see Saint-Omer just south
east of Calais in the north of France is not far from a town called
Montreuil, about 60 km south west. Interesting enough, there is
another town called Montrueil-Bellay between Nantes and Tours,
in the north east of France, basically staunch Catholic 'prophet
country' near Brittany. It is possible this similarity in the
names gave the hoaxer of the 'Nun of Bellay' prophecies ideas to
change the name of St. Omer to Bellay near Brittany to make a 'credit
forging' connection with that staunch Catholic part of the country
and muddle the dates, also keeping the prophet anonymous to carry
over the 'secrecy' of the clergy mystique and easily forging a
prophecy that seemed to come from her, hence people making the
connection to Sr. Bertina today and misattributing the 'Nun of
Bellay' texts to her. Click here for more about them.
Considering her prophecies
are too problematic, I've decided not to include them in the
Timeline.
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