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"Men will surrender to the spirit of the age.They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day they will say, Things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the days problems. When the Church and the world are one, then those days are at hand"
St Anthony the Abbott - Fourth century
"During this period, many men will abuse of the freedom of conscience conceded to them. It is of such men that Jude the Apostle spoke when he said:'These men blaspheme what ever they don't understand; and they corrupt what ever they know naturally as irrational animals do.... They will ridicule Christian simplicity, and they will call it folly and nonsense, but they will have the highest regard for advanced knowledge and for the axioms of law and the precepts of morality.The Holy canons and religious dogmas are clouded by senseless questions and elaborate arguments"
Ven. Bartholomew Holzhauser - seventeenth century
Falsehood will characterize that class of men who will sit in judgement to pass sentence according to law: between the father and his son, litigation's will subsist. Women will abandon feelings of delicacy, and cohabit with men out of wedlock.
St. Senanus-sixth century
God will punish the world when men devised marvellous inventions that will lead them to forgetting God. They will have horseless carriages, and they will fly like birds
Blessed Rembordt - eighteenth century
" Before the comet comes , many nations, the good excepted, will be scourged by want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribe and descent will be devastated by Earthquake, storm and tidal wave. It will be divided and in great part submerged. That nation will have many misfortunes at sea and lose its colonies.
Saint Hildegard - twelfth century
The chastisement will come when carriages go without horses and many accidents fill the world with woe. It will come whem thoughts are flyimg around the earth in the twinkling of an eye, when long tunnels are made for hoseless machines, when men can flyin the air and ride under the sea, when ships are wholly made of metal, when fire and water great marvels do, when even the poor can read books and when many taxes are levvied for war.
Mother Shipton - sixteenth Century