!? St. Bernadette “1879
Letter to Pope Leo XIII” (1998) - "The Five Secrets of Bernadette Soubirous"
Late 20th-Century HOAX / FORGERY
During the famous approved apparitions
of Our Lady as the Immaculate Conception to St. Bernadette at Lourdes,
France in 1858, the Mother of God imparted only three secrets to St.
Bernadette, which St. Bernadette never revealed.
Furthermore, she declared they were all of a private matter and
had nothing to do with the world, or with France, or with the Church.
(1)
However, a
journalist by the name of Mittelberg made mention of a 'prophetic
letter' allegedly sent by St. Bernadette to Pope Leo XIII in 1879 a
newsletter called “Der Schwarze Briel” dated
November 4, 1998. Since then, this journalist's claim along with
copies of the supposed prophecies has gone viral on the Internet.
The five
page letter was supposed to have been discovered by a Frenchman,
Antoine La Grande, in 1998 in a metal cupboard in an "underground
archive at the Vatican".
The letter is an obvious 20th-century forgery.
According
to this letter which was supposed to have been written in 1879, there
are prophecies concerning the spread of electricity, the invention of
the gramophone, the electric light bulb, and the telegraph, which
happened all before the date of 1879, and therefore are details outside the scope of prophecy.
The
telegraph was first patented by Morse in 1837 quite a number of years
before the apparitions of Lourdes (!) and was used in the first half
of the nineteenth century. The gramophone was already in use in
1870. The electric light bulb was invented in 1875. Paris became the
City of Light in 1876 when it introduced public street lighting using
electric arc lights. Therefore, this shows this '1879 letter' it to
be a forgery. Obviously, a forger knew people would not be mindful
about dates and wanted to sound authentic enough mentioning all these
inventions with the purpose of fooling people into thinking the rest of the letter was
real and further their own aims.
In fact, there
is a troubling 'prophecy' in the letter saying eventually people will
turn on the liberal scientists of the world around the year 2,000
after they breed human-animal hybrid chimeras. The people will kill
all those scientists, and turn away from science altogether in the
Age of Peace.
This shows it to be fake as it goes against a past Great Monarch prophecy that says science will finally be put to good use when the Great Monarch reigns. Not to mention the fact that the Church promotes knowledge and science when they are used for good purposes. So this false prophecy is in fact dangerous. Note, a warning against producing animal human hybrids is not the troubling element of this fake propehcy, that should indeed be condemned and stopped. The dangerous element is this hoax revelation promotes an extreme right wing agenda of violence where the ends justify the means, and, in the process descredits Catholics in general - that Catholics are anti-science and will turn to bloody acts of mob vengenace to get rid of scientists.
This shows it to be fake as it goes against a past Great Monarch prophecy that says science will finally be put to good use when the Great Monarch reigns. Not to mention the fact that the Church promotes knowledge and science when they are used for good purposes. So this false prophecy is in fact dangerous. Note, a warning against producing animal human hybrids is not the troubling element of this fake propehcy, that should indeed be condemned and stopped. The dangerous element is this hoax revelation promotes an extreme right wing agenda of violence where the ends justify the means, and, in the process descredits Catholics in general - that Catholics are anti-science and will turn to bloody acts of mob vengenace to get rid of scientists.
This forgery was obviously concocted in our own times and in no way can it be dated to 1879.
Everything
written by St. Bernadette is preserved in the archive at Nevers, and
there is no trace of such a letter at Nevers. After the year 1878
Bernadette wrote only three letters, all of which are documented.
No-one has ever mentioned a letter to Pope Leo XIII. The letter
that St. Bernadette wrote to Pope Pius IX, dated 17 December 1876,
was suggested by the bishop of Nevers to please the pontiff. The
style of this letter is entirely conventional and contains nothing
prophetic. A prediction of the 1870 Franco-Prussian war was once
attributed to Bernadette but was immediately refuted by all
historians.
This
letter is obviously a hoax and is not included in the Timeline.
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Other "Bernadette Soubirious" prophecies:
Also, there are a number of so called 'Berandette Soubirous" prophecies floating around on the internet, possibly related to this fake later, or, someone else trying to start a series of fake prophecies spreading around using the 'three secrets' as the fuel. A YouTube video sharing 'Five Secrets' is making these fake prophecies go viral. Notice the number of Three secrets has jumped to 'Five' - we can see the tale-spinning getting worse. That is a sign in itself there is something not quite right going on!
Considering all known correspondence written by St. Bernadette is accounted for and does not contain any prophecies, and, she herself said that the three secrets given to her by Our Lady were of a private nature and had NOTHING to do with the world, France or the Church, it is obvious these secrets were something related to her own spiritual life, and had nothing to do with prophecies regarding the future. She NEVER revealed what was said, so, any one claiming they have the 'secrets' of St. Bernadette, or 'prophecies' from St. Bernadette, we can safely consider them to be fake.
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FOOTNOTES:
(1) René Laurentin,
“Bernadette vi parla”, ed. Paoline, 1979, p. 554.
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(Jan. 20, 2020)
