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A miracle, attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God ELENA AIELLO, founder of Congregation of the Minim Sisters of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ; born on 10 April 1895 in Montalto Uffugo, Cosenza (Italy) and and died on 19 June 1961 in Rome (Italy); declared venerable on 22 January 1991.
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Why I'm posting about this nun.
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I'm posting about Venerable Mother Elena simply because she is a mystic I had learned about when I was much younger. At the time I was convinced WWIII was about to begin any day back then, and that most of humanity would be wiped off the face of the earth. Mother Elena seemed to think so too. She had the stigmata, many visions, and dispensed a few apocalyptic-type prophecies. As I 'matured' I dismissed Mother Elena as an eccentric Italian nun. And now she will be beatified.
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Catholics should know that persons beatified and canonized are never made saints based upon their mystical experiences, but rather upon their heroic virtue and witness to the Gospel. The miracles required for canonization are in effect God's confirmation of the candidate's sanctity. Nevertheless, I find it interesting that this 'prophet of doom' will soon be beatified.
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Sister Elena's Prophesies
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Sister Elena began having apparitions of The Blessed Mother. During these apparitions The Blessed Mother would tell Sister Elena things that might happen in the future if people did not amend their sinful ways. Many of her prophesies were apocalyptic in nature. Below are the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Sister Elena during one of these apparitions.
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"My Heart is sad for so many sufferings in an impending world in ruin . . . The wrath of God is near. Soon the world will be afflicted with great calamities, bloody revolutions, frightful hurricanes and the overflowing of rivers and the seas . . . the world will be overturned in a new and more terrible war. Arms most deadly will destroy peoples and nations. The dictators of the earth, specimens infernal, will demolish the churches and desecrate the Holy Eucharist, and will destroy things most dear. In this impious war, much will be destroyed of that which has been built by the hands of man ..."
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In 1940, Sister Elena received a message from Jesus and was asked to deliver this message to Premier Benito Mussolini. The message for Mr. Mussolini was not to join forces with Hitler in World War II. If this warning is not heeded Italy would suffer a terrible defeat and Mussolini would be punished and the result would be his total defeat and downfall. - A Saintly Cousin
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Things I never thought would happen in my lifetime:
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The Third Secret of Fatima revealed.
The collapse of the Soviet Union.
The canonization of Padre Pio.
People like Elena Aiello even declared venerable or much less noted by the Congregation for the Saints.
Priests and Bishops doing bad things.
Catholics divided.
Euthanasia.
The decline and fall of the United States.
... more later, perhaps.
