Prophecies of the Fleeing Pontiff

Prophecies concerning the fleeing pope, (antipope arrives after)

St. Pius X (20th century "I saw one of my successors with the same name taking to flight over the bodies of his brethren. He will take refuge in disguise somewhere; and after a short retirement he will die a cruel death. The present wickedness of the world is only the beginning of the sorrows which must take place before the end of the world."

**Pope St Pius's real name was Giuseppe(Joseph in Italian) Melchiorre Sarto; Pope Benedict XVI is Joseph Ratzinger, both Joseph

John of the Cleft Rock (14th century): "Towards the end of the world, tyrants and hostile mobs will rob the Church and the clergy of all their possessions and will afflict and martyr them. Those who heap the most abuse upon them will be held in high esteem. The clergy cannot escape these persecutions, but, because of them, all the servants of the Church will be forced to lead an apostolic life. At that time, the Pope with his cardinals will have to flee Rome in tragic circumstances to a place where they will be unknown. The Pope will die a cruel death in his exile. The sufferings of the Church will be much greater than at any previous time in her history…".

Our Lady of Fatima:  "After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."

 Blessed Anne Emerich (bilocation/vision experience): "As we finally reached the Pope...He was very ill and he could no longer walk. The ecclessiatics in his inner circle looked insincere and lacking in zeal; I did not like them. I told the Pope of the bishops who are to be appointed, I told them they must not flee Rome(rome being seized at this point). If he did it would be chaos. He thought evil was inevitable and that he should leave in order to save many things beside himself. He was inclined to leave Rome and insistently urged to do so. The Pope is still attached to the things of the earth in many ways."

Helen Wallraff (19th century): Some day a pope will flee from Rome in the company of only four cardinals . . . and they will come to Koeln [Cologne, Germany] **Pope Benedict is from Germany

Premol (5th century):  "Everywhere there is war! Peoples and nations are pitted against each other…(b)ut mercy, mercy for Rome! But Thou hearest not my entreaties, and Rome also collapses in tumult. And I see the King of Rome with his Cross and his Tiara, shaking the dust off his shoes, and hastening in his flight to other shores. Thy Church, O Lord, is torn apart by her own children. One camp is faithful to the fleeing Pontiff, the other is object to the new government of Rome which has broken the Tiara. But Almighty God will, in His mercy, put an end to this confusion and a new age will begin. Then, said the Spirit, this is the beginning of the End of Time.

 Blessed Anna Maria Tiagi:  "Religion shall be persecuted and priests massacred. Churches shall be closed but only for a short time. The Holy Father shall be obliged to leave Rome. France shall fall into a frightful anarchy. The French shall have a desperate civil war in the course of which even old men will take up to arms.

The Ecstatic of Tours--late 1800's:  "Before war breaks out again food will be scarce and expensive. There will be little work for the workers and fathers will hear their children crying for food. Toward the end darkness will cover the whole world.""When everyone believes that peace has been assured, when everyone least expects it, he great happenings will begin. Revolution will break out in Italy almost at the same time as in France. For some time the Church will be without a Pope, England will have much to suffer.

 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4013923.ece

 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026297/italys-president-fears-violent-insurrection-in-2014-but-offers-no-remedy/

"There will come a great prodigy, which will fill the world with awe. But this prodigy will be preceded by the triumph of a revolution during which the Church will go through ordeals that are beyond description." -Pope Pius IX (19th century)

"THE PRESENT WICKEDNESS OF THE WORLD IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE SORROWS WHICH MUST TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD
~Saint Pope Pius X

Pope Pius XII:   "We believe that the present hour is a dread phase of the events foretold by Christ. It seems that darkness is about to fall upon the whole world. Humanity is in the grip of a supreme crisis."