!? St. Angelus of Jerusalem (1185-1222?)
SUSPICIOUS / NOT RELIABLE- Possible Medieval forgery + Misattribution
In the French book of prophecies called the 'Dernier Mot des Prophétes' (1878) by Adrian Péladan, there is a Great Monarch prophecy attributed to a Saint Ange, (i.e St. Angel or Angelus), who is described as a martyr, and, his biography was written by an author named 'Enoch' in "1127".
There is a St. Angelus of Jerusalem, also known as St. Angelus or Angelo of Sicily and is the patron saint of Palermo. He had a biography of his life written by a scribe named Henoch, (i.e Enoch).
However, the fact this prophecy attributed to St. Angelus comes from the biography by Henoch shows it is an apparent cavalier forgery and / or misattribution.
According to the website by the Order of the brothers of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel, the material written or attributed to Henoch regarding St. Angelus is an inventive fabrication. Information in the work is incorrect in several places, and, he ascribes miracles to St. Angelus that is completely impossible according to the teaching of the Church, such as delivering a soul already condemned to Hell!
Quote from their website: “Especially well-known and widespread is the life (of St. Angelus) written by a certain Henoch, who is said to have been a Carmelite and a patriarch of Jerusalem. Reputedly he lived during the first decades of the XIII century; but, as one learns from the errors and from the chronological elements contained in his work, he was, with all probability, a Sicilian who wrote during the first half of the XV cent. and used historical Palestinian sources (William of Tyre and James of Vitry), plus Benedictine and Dominican hagiographic sources, together with the apocalyptic literature of the XIV century. His errors are evident in his ignorance of the topography of the Holy Land, and in his statements that the Carmelite rule dates back to a Patriarch Albert in 412, when actually it was given some years after the asserted entry of Angelus and of his brother John among the Carmelites in 1204-5; further, that Jerusalem was still in the hands of the Christians in 1219; that a young man was freed even from hell by a miracle of St. Angelus; that a certain Godfrey was archbishop of Palermo, while no such person existed in the period assigned to him. The chronological elements include the prophecies that are well suited to the situation following the battle of Cossovo in 1389, and the invasion of Bulgaria and of Wallachia in 1393.” (Source: https://ocarm.org/en/content/liturgy/st-angelus-priest-and-martyr-m)
The last sentence shows that the prophecies in the work were written to conform to the various battles of the time, and, therefore cannot be accepted as an authentic Great Monarch prophecy.
Also, I cannot help but wonder if the prophecies of St. Angelus of Jerusalem may also be a misattribution and are possibly the work of another prophetic commentator called 'Angelus', a Franciscan friar named Angelus Terzonis de Legonissa who in 1497 wrote a work entitled 'Opus Davidicum' in which records the tradition of the French kings as the descendants of the house of David and that a French King was destined to expel all heretics. (However, Angelus Terzonis thought the king of the prophecies was Charles VIII and wrote it as such). A copy of his 'Opus Davidicum' is available online at Gallica courtesy of the Bibliotèque National de France, (click here) but since I cannot read the ancient Latin script, this will have to be a theory for now.
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