Marie
Josseaume Bergadieu “Berguille” (c. 1873-1875)
STATUS:
failed prophecies = fake mystic. Also, not approved by the local
bishop - negative stance.
Marie
Josseaume Bergadieu, who was also called by her pet name "Berguille"
by all who knew her, was born in 1830 and lived in Fontet near Réole
in Gironde, Bordeaux France. She was a simple country woman,
married and with children who lived an ordinary Christian life when
her mystic experiences just 'started' out of the blue in 1873 at the
age of forty three when she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Near
one point she had gone two weeks without food and was preparing for
the worst when in April 29 she claimed to have a vision from Our Lady
who promised she would be cured, which happened the next day.
She suddenly
started to have mystical experiences.
Her
ecstasies immediately 'shadowed' those of Marie-Julie Jahenny,
Berguille claiming to suffer the Passion and also see Marie-Julie
during her own ecstasies about thirty times, calling her 'sister' as
in sister victims for Christ, and also stating that a huge basilica
would be built on the site of her cottage similar to what Marie-Julie
predicted about her own cottage in La Fraudais, only Berguille went a
step further, that it would be the 'most beautiful in the Universe'
and would become one of the most important pilgrim sites in the
world– which is obviously a very bold claim that shows something
was not quite right if it was going to out shadow the Sanctuary of
the Cross foretold by Marie-Julie Jahenny.
Satan
often sends out fake apparitions and mystics to fool the faithful and
draw them away from the real mystics, one of his tactics is copying
the very mystics he wishes to distract people from – it was obvious
it was his attempt to get people drawn away from Marie-Julie Jahenny, and perhaps from the Tilly apparition site, which is now under question again.
Berguille was not the only one to see Our Lady at times,
and there were even miraculous communions, healings, conversions, and
her visions even included spectacular visible miracles, such a fiery
crosses in the sky, which were obviously from Satan. Yes, Satan can
mimic miracles, even healings if he causes the diseases to begin with
and then 'heals' them by stopping his diabolical attacks. He can
also fake miraculous Communions. Berguille was able to fool priests
and many people.
Several
outlandish and fake prophecies showed that she was indeed fake. She
adamantly predicted France would have a king again in 1874, and that
it would be the Count of Chambord who would be king in this year, a
prophecy which failed in the timing as the Third Republic that
started in 1870 did not end until the Nazi occupation of France in
1940. When 1874 passed, Berguille tried to backtrack when questioned
about it and said Our Lady told her later that she had misinterpreted
her words due to her lack of education, that she did not give a time,
but that sounds very lame and shows her to be fake as bogus mystics
attempt to correct their errors. Real uneducated mystics have no
problems revealing Heaven's messages – Heaven is not complicated
when it communicates with the uneducated. As one example, Our Lady
of La Salette even changed her French way of speaking to the local
patois when the uncultured and completely ignorant children
didn't understand her. They also never forgot the message and never
became confused about the details of the apparition. Another example, think
of the children of Fatima for instance. Berguille also wrongly
predicted a priest by the name of Fr. Marie-Frédéric de Bray was
destined to be the Angelic Pontiff, another prophecy which was doomed
to failure from the beginning. Therefore, she was not approved, the
archbishop forbid the clergy to go visit her, and also forbid
Berguille from receiving pilgrims. Interest in her died out after
the death of Fr. Bray in 1889, which put an end to her 'Angelic Pontiff' prophecy and discredited her completely.
However,
damage was indeed already done.
Priests
such as Fr. Daurelle supported her and believed in her as she seemed
so similar to Marie-Julie Jahenny and indeed mentioned her in her
visions. Fr. Daurell was living in Rome at one point, and refused to
obey his superior, Cardinal Ferdinand François Auguste Donnet, the
Archbishop of Bordeaux regarding his order not to print any more
material on Berguille and to stop investigating her. So it is obvious
Berguille's local archbishop did not approve her. Although Fr.
Daurelle was informed by the Curia to desist from his printing and to
obey his local superior, he refused, and therefore was given the
choice by Pope Leo XIII to either leave Rome, or, stop printing
information about Berguille. Fr. Daurelle apparently refused to do
either, and so Pope Leo XIII ordered he be suspended from his Mass
duties. (Source: Joachim Bouflet. “Institution
et charisme dans l’Église de 1846 à nos jours : la question du
jugementépiscopal sur les apparitions mariales modernes et
contemporaines.” Histoire. Université Michel deMontaigne -
Bordeaux III, 2014. Français., pp. 93-96.)
The
regrettable part in this case with Fr. Daurelle, he was also a priest
who investigated Marie-Julie Jahenny, and therefore, this skirmish caused by
falling for the false miracles of Berguille led to Marie-Julie, and
possibly even Ven. Madre Teresa of Peru, of becoming associated with
the scandal. Fr. Daurelle was Ven. Teresa's spiritual director and
encouraged her in founding her order of the Canonesses of the Cross
in Peru based on Marie-Julie's visions regarding an order of the
Cross that would be founded. It is a grace that this unfortunate
connection between Fr. Daurelle, Berguille and her fake visions
mimicking Marie-Julie's real visions have not hampered Ven. Theresa's
canonisation process, or so it appears for now. (For more about Fr. Daurelle and Ven. Madre Teresa, click here.) Also, Berguille's
fake prophecy about the Count of Chambord only helped to discredit
Marie-Julie's true prophecies about the Count at the time.
So,
you can see what damage a fake mystic can do when they through bogus
miracles can bring holy priests down through disobedience, discredit
a true mystic and possibly attempt to cause hindrances to a
canonisation process of another holy soul. Therefore, Berguille is
not included in the Timeline.
