!? "Illumination of Conscience" Event




STATUS: Take it with a grain of salt



This is a hot topic among prophecies today – that a great worldwide 'Illumination of Conscience' is going to happen to warn everyone throughout the world before the major chastisements and the Three Days of Darkness strike, that God will let people sees their souls exactly as He sees them as a last chance to convert.





I know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, but of all the different chastisement and 'warning' prophecies, (which I do believe in),  there is one I'm skeptical about - the worldwide 'Illumination of Conscience'.

I do have good cause to be skeptical - this could be the very prophecy Ven. Bernardo Maria Clausi (1787-1849)  warned us NOT to pay attention to should any mystic attempt to give the details of a 'new momentary worldwide plague' never revealed before as GOD IS RESERVING THIS SECRET TO HIMSELF and is NOT going to give details.




Ven. Bernardo Maria Clausi: “There will come a great plague; it will be terrible and directed only against the ungodly. It will be a brand new scourge, and one that has never been seen in the world.

Heaven and earth will be united and great sinners will be converted, because then they will know God. This plague will be felt all over the world and it will be so terrible that those who survive it will imagine that they are the only ones it has spared. All will be good and repentant. This plague will be instant, (and pass in a moment), but (will be) terrible. (...) “Take care not to believe those who will tell you what will be the plague, because it will be something completely new, and which has never been seen in the world, and God did not reveal it to anybody: He keeps the secret reserved for Himself. ” (See more about Ven. Bernard Maria Clausi, click here.)

(Image: Ven. Bernardo Maria Clausi with his picture of Our Lady)

So, Ven. Clausi has given us an indication that we can spot a modern fake mystic if they try to give extraordinary details about a never before revealed 'momentary' worldwide or universial 'plague' event that would last an instant but could or would kill the ungodly. 



This cannot be the Three Days of Darkness he was referring to, three days is longer than a 'moment', and something similar has already happened in the Bible, not to mention God has given us plenty of details about it through authentic mystics, so this has been revealed already.



It cannot be the 'Burning Plague' either as that too is mentioned in the Bible and other approved mystics, and, will last more than a 'moment 'and take time to spread, so this plague cannot happen universally at once, or disappear fast like what Ven. Clausi is describing.

Also, it need not be a disease he is talking about.  A "plague" can also be a torment sent as punishment as the Ten Plagues of Egypt show.  Some of the bigger plagues were not diseases, such as the river of blood, the hail of fire, the plagues of flies and frogs, lice, the Three Days of Darkness and the death of the firstborn in Egypt casued by supernatural means.  Locusts and the like are also described as 'plagues'.



The event Ven. Clausi refered to can't be the sign of the cross in the sky, as Christ already revealed that in the Bible and again to other mystics.



We know from true mystics, the time of the chastisements will be like a 'Little Judgement' or 'Minor Judgement'– that description is not the problem either.  We know there will be earthquakes, plagues, lots of chastisements, signs in the sky, even hints of resurrections of the dead, etc before the Three Days of Darkness.  These have all been revealed before either in the Bible or by saints and true mystics.





The red flag we have to watch for is when people will try to go into detail and describe what God is going to do in the new 'momentary universal plague' never before revealed.



The 'Illumination of Conscience' has to be what he referred to – it is the only new, never-before revealed 'universal plague' prophecy that begin to circulate in Ven. Clausi's time, and, attempts to explain what this 'new momentary plague' could be, even in its very description 'Illumination of Conscience'.

 To repeat: a 'plague' is not just a disease as the Ten Plagues of Egypt show.  Notice, the word plague can refer to a 'calamity', a 'scourge' or 'punishment'. According to the Etymology Dictionary, the word 'plague' comes from Latin plaga "stroke, wound," probably from root of plangere "to strike, lament (by beating the breast)," from or cognate with Greek (Doric) plaga "blow," from PIE root plak "to strike." 
 
For the ungodly and wicked in the state of mortal sin, to see their souls exactly as God sees them is indeed a spiritual 'plague' as they will be struck with an inner torment and the sight of their souls worthy of damnation if they were to die at that point.

 
Therefore, the 'Illumination of Conscience' event would actually be a 'plague' that would only 'strike' the ungodly according to Ven. Clausi's warnings. It would only 'strike' the die-hard mortal sinners as they would be the ones so terrified of the actual state of their own souls they would be 'struck' and possibly die from the terror, while it would not be so terrifying for those in a state of grace, and not terrify them to the point of death despite the shock.  

To repeat: it is the only never before revealed 'momentary' universal “plague” prophecy that first appeared in his own lifetime, and he warned be careful of something never before revealed.


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Debunking the 'Illumination of Conscience' prophecy:


Contrary to what several books and websites say, the first time we actually hear of the 'Illumination of Conscience' event is from a prophecy by a mystic named  Madeleine Porsat (1843-1870s) – who declared that Our Lady will illumine the consciences of everyone – but the only original text about Porsat is very suspect and not credible. Her main prophecy failed, the text itself shows signs of the message having been manipulated, and, there is no evidence the woman even existed. So, she was either a fake mystic, or the prophecy was made up by another author, or she did not even exist at all.  (Click here for more info about Porsat.)



The man who recorded this prophecy claimed he heard about in the late 1840s from her lips, which means it was circulating in the very last years of Ven. Bernardo Clausi's life - evidence that this could be the exact 'new' prophecy Ven. Bernardo Maria Clausi warned about - that any attempt to describe in detail a 'momentary universal plague' like an 'illumination of conscience' event is what we have to be on the watch for.

It had never circulated before, and first appeared in his lifetime, therefore this must be it.

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It is said that St. Edmund Campion (1540-1581) is the first to have referred to this so-called 'Illumination of Conscience' but this is FALSE.

It is obvious his quotation has been taken out of context to cobble together a weak support for the 'Illumination' prophecy.



During his trial, St. Edmund was accused of preaching about an imminent invasion of England by armies mustered by the Pope, the King of Spain and the Duke of Florence when he spoke of a 'great day' that was 'coming soon'.   He refuted this and defended himself by saying he was preaching the very same thing that even Protestants were preaching in their own pulpits at that time: he preached the 'great day of the Lord', the time when the Lord would come to judge men of all faiths and religions, and reveal all men's consciences, the 'day of change', aka the Day of the Resurrection when “all shall be changed” as St. Paul preached (1 Cor. 15: 52).



It is obvious St Edmund was talking about the Second Coming and the Last Day that the Protestants would also preach about, not an 'illumination of conscience' chastisement before the Three Days of Darkness since the Protestants certainly would not preach such a thing.


St. Edmund: “Whereupon as in every pulpit every Protestant doth, I pronounced a great day, not wherein any temporal potentate should minister, but wherein the terrible Judge should reveal all men's consciences and try every man of each kind of religion. This is the day of change, this is the great day which I threatened.” (Source for quote: “Edmund Champion: Jesuit and Martyr”, by Evelyn Waugh, Penguin, UK, 2012)


Quite a number of authors who have written in favour of the 'Illumination of Conscience' have conveniently clipped out the very first sentence underlined above regarding the Protestants, which changes the context to suit the 'Illumination of Conscience' narative.

So, St. Edmund has been misquoted to fit the idea of the universal 'illumination of conscience'. He also never used the term.  Completely manipulated.

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Bl. Anna Maria Taigi (1769-1837) – she is the next source usually cited as having made an 'Illumination of Conscience' prophecy in 1836 a year before her death, a 'miracle of self illumination'.  This is the quotion given:

"A great purification will come upon the world preceded by an “Illumination of Conscience” in which everyone will see themselves as God sees them."

However, the earliest book source I can find for this literal quote is 'The Miracle of Illumination of All Conscienses' by Thomas W. Petrisko, and it was published in the year 2000.  The author does not say where he found his quote.  He quotes it as is, no source given.



I cannot find one early printed source from the mid 1800s or even early 1900s that has credited her with this prophecy, in Italian, French, Spanish or English. They mention her Days of Darkness prophecies, but I have not found any early source that mentions an 'illumination of conscience', which is strange as it is considered a major chastisement that comes before the Three Days of Darkness. 

Academics know that if an early text source is lacking certain details, but these details are found a long time afterwards in later publications, it is a sign those latter details may have be added embellishments.



In fact, I have not even found the prophecy at all in later relatively credible books, such as Fr. Culleton's 'The Prophets and Our Times', not even Yves Dupont's book 'Catholic Prophecy'. Like Fr. Culleton, he too doesn't even mention it at all, let alone attribute it to Bl Anna. The fact Fr. Culleton and Yves Dupont didn't mention it in their books means the prophecy is suspect in itself.



And, those who claim Bl Taigi made this prophecy do not cite any early sources either. Many do not cite a source at all, but apparently have accepted it and quoted it as fact.





So, until someone cites an early source that said Bl Anna made this prophecy, all I can conclude is that it is very likely she never made the prophecy at all and it has been attributed to her in these modern times to make it sound credible, as with many fake prophecies that have been tacked onto to St. Padre Pio's good name to make them sound real.





If anyone actually has an early text that says Bl Anna Maria Taigi predicted this, i.e. texts from the 1800s or early 1900s, please let me know.

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St. Catherine Labouré (1806-1876)  - there are also claims in books and on websites that St. Catherine who received the visions of the Miraculous Medal also was told about an 'Illumination of Conscience' event, and, they say it happened in 1830 (the year the Miraculous Medal Apparitions occured), but similar to Bl. Anna Maria Taigi, I have not found any early record that states this.  Yes, St. Catherine received visions of the future revolutions in France, that the whole world would "grow sad", and mentions a time of great peace would happen after this, but I have not found any early textual evidence she received a vision or revelation in 1830 about a worldwide 'illumination of conscience' that will strike the earth before these events happen.

In fact, it appears a vision to MARIE-JULIE JAHENNY was taken out of context!



Apparently, one source claiming St. Catherine made an 'illumination of conscience' prophecy in that the date of it was revealed to her was actually given to Marie-Julie Jahenny, and it was NOT about any 'illumination of conscience', but a warning about the genocidal civil war to break out in France and day of darkness and lightning that would come before to announce it:


Our Lady to Marie-Julie Jahenny June 15, 1882 “This particular day was revealed to My servant Catherine in the apparitions of My Holy Mother, under the name Mary conceived without sin. (St. Catherine Labouré of Rue du Bac) This day is noted in five rolls tightly closed (of or by) the sister of Saint Pierre Tours. This roll remains (hidden) in secret, until the day when a person of God brings her predestined hand on what the world has ignored, to the inhabitants of that monastery …" (The writings of Sr. St. Peter were put in a secret place in Tours by order of Bishop Morlot in August, 1950 ) (Click here to see the FULL TEXT and how this is NOT a prophecy referring to an 'Illumination of Conscience'.)

So, this is from an ecstasy from Marie-Julie Jahenny, not St. Catherine herself, and it is about a day of ferocious darkness and lightning that would announce the civil wars are coming. 

So it is a text about a visible warning, that's about it.

This would be in keeping with the other prophecies about the future French revolution St. Catherine received, but it is obvious this is not about an 'illumination of conscience' event.

I can only conclude by this that people seem to be mixing up what the 'Warning' is, (we're actually going to have many visible warnings), and automatically assuming if a saint or mystic mentions a 'warning' sign, this is also going to be an 'Illumination of Conscience' event, or, conveniently mixing them up  to support the worldwide 'Illumination of Conscience' idea when the texts themselves do not say this at all. 

A lot of approved saints and mystics do mention 'warning' signs, but usually there is NO MENTION of an 'Illumination of Conscience' event.

Unless an early text is provided with the acutal words of the vision or St. Catherine it appears revelations about the revolutions to come were twisted out of context like the paragraph above was with St. Edmund, and therefore this claim of having made an 'Illumination of Conscience prophecy' is not genuine.

Please, if anyone has an early source text dating from the 1800s or early 1900s that actually has her making such a prophecy, let me know.



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Another sign the 'Illumination of Conscience' prophecy must not be right – it is spread by a considerable number of mystics who are not approved by the Church, or have even been condemned by the Church Another big red flag is fake mystics tend to all pal around together and spread the same things, especially visions not approved by the Church.



+ Garabandal is a big one regarding the 'Illumination of Conscience' prophecy and apparently the first major apparition to spread this idea since Porsat – Garabandal is STILL NOT APPROVED BY THE CHURCH, and is still declared 'not supernatural'. Conchita actually tries to describe the event with detail, so we have a hint we should ignore this particular prophecy from Conchita according to Ven. Bernardo Clausi.



+ Mama Quattrini of San Damiano is quoated has having given an 'illumination of conscience' event, but she has been condemned twice by the Church, click here.


+ Christina Gallgher from Achill island Ireland, promotes it, and she has been condemned by her local bishop, click here.


+ John Leary has many detailed messages on it, which again is proof Ve. Bernardo Clausi was right not to pay attention to such mystics as Leary has been condemned by the Church as 'not supernatural', his locutions are of human origin, and he promotes the Chiliast heresy condemened centuries ago by the Church, click here.


+ The heretical, gnostic fake seer 'Maria-Divine-Mercy' condemned by her local archbishop is another one promoting it through her 'Book of Truth' which is a nothing but a book of errors promoting failed prophecies and the Chiliast heresy, and, fake sacramentals attempting to outdo the sacrament of Confirmation, click here.

+ The fake heretical seer condemned by her local bishop Maureen Sweeny Kyle of 'Holy Love' of Ohio also promotes it, more on her, click here.



+ The fake mystic 'Luz de Maria' de Bonilla of Argentina also promotes it, click here.



+ The fake seer 'Jennifer' of the USA is another, click here.
 
+ Francine Bériault of France who claims to have locutions from Heaven also mentions the 'Illumination', but her visions contain heretical contradictions of Scripture, and, illgoical staments that contradict reason.  Sign of a fake, and therefore more proof anyone mentioning the 'Illumination of Conscience' event must not be true: click here.

+ Gisella Carida - also gives details of the 'Illumination of Consciences', and her messages have several major doctrinal errors and contrdicts the Gospels, so she is an obvious false mystic: click here.

+ The obvious fake seers Joseph DellaPuca and Denise Curtain also foretell it in the 'Two Heart are One' message, but Ron Conte on 'Catholic Planet' shows they are obvious fakes, click here for his evaluation.



+ Fr. Michel Rodrigue is another spreading errors regarding end time events, and he goes into incredible depth trying to explain the 'Warning' and 'Illumination of Conscience' event. In fact, his local bishop has just written a second official letter Sept. 3, 2020 declaring he does not support his end times messages or version of end times events, and has completely disavowed them.  The bishop has also revealed Fr. Michel was never appointed an official diocesan exorcist as claimed, and has now withdrawn his official support for his St. Joseph Labre project.  This is a major red flag, click here for the official statments of the Bishop of Amos, Canada and also more info.

 
If anything, this list of fake, not approved and outright condemned mystics that all tend to share the same concept of the 'Illumination of Conscience' event only shows that Ven. Benardo Maria Clausi was right - beware of anyone going into prophetic details about an 'Illumination of Conscience' event -  pay no attention to them.  It is a red flag.

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What about the approved apparitions to Maria Esperanza of Betania, Venezuela? Do they mention an 'Illumination of Conscience'?



Not from what I can see judging from the quotes people say refers to the 'illumination of conscience'.



Betania foretells of a “day of light”, but this could simple mean a day of grace, a day of miracles. Also, the prophecies of Betania say that consciences need to be 'shaken' but there is no mention of HOW. There is a big difference between 'shaking a conscience', and 'illuminating' it.

Quotes from Betania: “The great moment of a great day of light is coming. The consciences of this beloved people must be violently shaken so that they can "put their houses in order" and offer Jesus the right reparation for the daily infidelities that are continuously committed by sinners”.

“A great moment is approaching, a great day of light .... It is time to decide for humanity.”

In fact, any number of the chastisements may 'shake' a conscience – i.e. how many have heard of a tragedy where many people die, and it makes them want to shape up their own lives after reflecting how fleeting life is? That event 'shook' their consciences. The huge chastisements are going to be sent to do that – and so, they can and will 'shake consciences'.



However, these quotes from the visions of Betania never say how consciences will be shaken, and, these quotes don't actually say God is going to literally illuminate consciences. Also, whatever is going to be sent to 'shake consciences' – these messages make it clear is to get the good people to wake up and make reparation for the daily neglects of sinners.

This doesn't sound like the “momentary plague” Ven. Clausi talked about that will particularly strike the ungodly, but like something that will be sent for the faithful to make then do better and make sacrifices for sinners.   So Betania is describing something completely different, and, it appears in another apparition that it was a 'movement of consciences' that these apparitions were meant to start:

Our Lady at Betania (Nov 8, 1989) “Children, I am offering you the great opportunity to unite, fulfilling a structural movement of consciences, with the burning flame of My Jesus... for this is the only way to go on... embellishing yourselves with spirituality..! Behold, reaffirm your steps... to meet with the pure source of a model life which is My Divine Son... which you have to live and feel inside..! I keep you here in My Heart..!”

In fact, Maria Esperanza herself said this 'light' began in 2004, and, thought this 'light' and 'shaking of consciences' was simply the beginning of a new spiritual state according to Spirit Daily, (click here.) Spirit Daily also notes the prophecies don't actually refer to an 'illumination of mankind' event.


Again, like St. Edmund Campion's quote, it appears these quotes by Maria Esperanza are taken out of context to support the 'illumination of consciences' prophecies spread by unreliable sources.

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What about St. Faustina?  Again, another example of a 'warning' sign mixed up to support the 'Illumination of Conscience' event.

 St. Faustina Kowalska DID NOT predict the 'Illumination of Consciences' in Her Dairy – she never used the term in her Dairy, and in fact, the event that people claim is the 'Warning / Illumination of Consciences' may be an event closer to the Day of Judgment she was talking about, not one of the chastisement events before the Age of Peace.



Our Lord told St. Faustina that before He comes as just judge, (i.e. since we know Christ is coming as the Judge at the End of Time, not before, this is obviously a reference to the Last Day), a time of darkness would happen and the cross would appear in the sky and light would stream from the places where He was nailed to it.  This is an obvious miraclus VISIBLE SIGN, but she did NOT describe it as an 'Illumination of Conscience' event as some sites claim. (Diary #83).



It is a sign in the sky St. Faustina revealed, and Christ had already foretold in the Bible that the cross would be seen in the sky when the end times were approaching, the 'sign of the Son of Man', so this is not a new revelation.

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To recap: Ven. Bernardo Maria Clausi warned to ignore anyone trying to gives details of a 'universal, momentary plague', i.e. a universal event that would torment the ungodly, that would come and quickly go, an event that has NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE OR NEVER REVEALED BEFORE. He said GOD IS KEEPING THIS SECRET TO HIMSELF and is NOT GOING TO REVEAL IT TO ANYBODY.



The 'Illumination of Conscience' event is the only NEW 'revelation' never before revealed that appeared in his time in a questionable text with a failed prophecy in it by an unapproved mystic who we can't even prove existed, and, which has suddenly been taken up by a lot of modern mystics, particularly by those not approved by the Church, or, are fake / heretical. 

In order to prove these 'beloved mystics' non-approved visionaries are genuine, those who believe in the 'Illumination of Conscience' event are obviously taking texts from authentic visions from saints and mystics and have manipulated them or quoted them out of context to generate a false sense of authenticity.





In fact, this attempt to describe the coming momentary plague or warning as the 'Illumination of Conscience' is VERY DANGEROUS – if we think we don't have to really prepare 'right now' as God is 'going to show our souls to us beforehand' – Satan has tricked us into being complacent and not keeping watch with our lamps burning if we think we have 'plenty of time to repent'.



Satan wants us to forget the current moment and look to a future event that may not ever happen when death could strike us any time. We must always have our souls prepared, even before we even consider the chastisements, and not just wait around until an 'illumination of conscience' happens.



In fact, I've already seen people say they don't have to 'really' prepare for the chastisements until the 'warning' and the 'illumination of conscience' occurs! That is really dangerous. Our Lord gave real warnings to mystics like Marie-Julie Jahenny quite a long time ago so we would be warned in plenty of time – He said so to her Himself. 

And, it is interesting that Marie-Julie Jahenny, the mystic that arguably has been given the most warnings to date about the chastisements, never mentioned an 'illumination of conscience' even.  The closest thing Marie-Julie came to it was to say that people would feel an interior warning that the times of the chastisements would not be far away, but that's all she said according to the published texts.  She gave may warnings and signs the earth would see, but never mentioned an 'Illumination of Conscience' event. 



So, we are not to 'sit around' and wait for any 'illumination of conscience' event.



Also, if God actually illumined every conscience at the same time – HOW COULD PEOPLE NOT CONVERT? How could people actually choose to keep living in evil if they saw it on their souls and had a chance to do better? 

 We would have conversions en mass to the Church and have no need for the other warning signs and certainly not for the Three Days of Darkness to wipe out two thirds to three quarters of humanity, which we know are coming.   It's been foretold several times by authentic mystics.  But this 'Illumination of Conscience' is a new element that has not been revealed before, often supported and spread by non-approved seers, and, several of them are in serious error.

Again - please note- simply because an approved saint or mystic mentions a visible warning will be seen, this is often NOT automatic proof of an 'Illumination of Conscience' event.   

I repeat: people seem to be mixing up visible 'Warnings' and automatically assuming if a saint or mystic mentions a warning sign, this is also going to be an 'Illumination of Conscience' event when it doesn't, not if the saint or mystic never metioned such a thing. 

Also, people are conveniently taking saints' and mystics' prophecies out of context with regards to warnings, also texts or prophecies about the Day of Judgment, aka the Last Day, and mixing them up or skewing them to support the idea of a worldwide 'Illumination of Conscience' idea when the texts themselves do not say this at all. 

A lot of approved saints and mystics do mention 'warning' signs, but usually there is NO LITERAL MENTION of an 'Illumination of Conscience' event in their texts.



As Ven. Bernardo Clausi warned – ignore anyone attempting to explain in detail a new 'momentary universal plague' never revealed before , (which means we would have fake mystics attempting to do so or he would not have warned about it.) Ven. Clausi says to ignore them. God is reserving the Secret for Himself and will not reveal what is going to happen with this particular event.