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Proofs of Authenticity
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Proofs Lie in the Words of Mary
The Lady of All Nations in Amsterdam gives very fascinating
proofs of authenticity which can be found very seldom in the history of Marian
apparitions. To do this, Mary chooses a very unusual way of demonstrating the
supernatural origin of the messages time and time again through the fact that
her numerous prophecies come true in the course of the years. She herself says,
“my signs are in my words” (May 31, 1955 and May 31, 1957),
which means that the proofs lie in the words of Mary. “It
will come true through the years” (December 3, 1949).
The messages of Amsterdam are intended for all nations and therefore have a
universal significance. The proofs of their authenticity are therefore also
meant for all nations, for the whole world. Taken from the most varied walks
of life, they address everyone – pope and bishop, scientist and politician,
students and the simplest person, believers and even non-believers. It is important
to consider that the visionary could not even imagine the spectacular prophecies
in the messages, nor influence their realization.
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Pope Pius XII Goes Home
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“Pastor Angelicus—the angelic pastor”—Pius XII,
Eugenio Pacelli
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Probably the strongest proof of the authenticity of
the Amsterdam messages is the prediction of the day on which Pope Pius XII was
called to eternity. God alone, as the “Lord over life and death”
can know such a day. Do not such proofs of authenticity—even reaching
into the life of a holy pope—clearly enough confirm the universal importance
of the messages for the Church and world?
On the night of February 18, 1958 (Ash Wednesday),
Ida receives that message which, more than any other, will be the proof of authenticity
for Amsterdam. Let us have Ida herself describe what she experienced that night.
“Last night I again woke up with
a start, because, at exactly three o’clock, I heard someone call me. I
saw the light again and heard the voice of the Lady saying,
‘Here I am again. The peace of the Lord
Jesus Christ be with you. … I shall make an announcement that you may
not tell anyone about, including the Sacrista* and your spiritual director.
When it has happened, you may tell them that the Lady told it to you at this
time.
The announcement is: Listen. This Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, will be taken
up among Us at the beginning of October of this year. The Lady of All Nations,
the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate, will lead him to eternal joy.’
I was shocked at this announcement
and hardly dared to believe it. The Lady said, ‘Do
not be frightened, child. His successor will proclaim the dogma.’
I thanked the Lady and she said very solemnly,
‘Amen.’”
(February 19, 1958).
First thing in the morning, Ash Wednesday, the visionary calls her spiritual
director to tell him that the Lady has given her a message, but that she may
tell no one about it. Fr. Frehe, however, has the good idea to have Ida write
down everything: “No! You have to promise me to write down everything
immediately, and to bring it straight to me today. Otherwise it is worthless.
Think about it. I don’t care whether you seal the letter; it’s only
important that I receive it today, and preferably as soon as possible.”
Ida obeys. She types the Lady’s words, keeps a copy with her at home,
and even on the same day takes the sealed original to her spiritual director.
He takes the closed envelope and puts it in his desk drawer, where it is soon
forgotten. Difficult months now lie before the visionary—months of waiting
in silence and trust for the realization of Mary’s prophecies.
Looking back on this sorrowful time, Ida writes in a letter to her bishop, Msgr.
Huibers, on November 24, 1958, “I
sat there, then, still with the thought that the Lady told me that I have to
say this and that to the Holy Father. It was worst of all in the days when the
Holy Father lay dying. Acquaintances called me and often said, trying to console
me, ‘But the Holy Father will not die. It’s not at all possible,’
etc. Once again, Your Excellency, that was the most difficult time ... On the
morning of October 9, while sitting before the radio, I then heard that the
Holy Father had died. After that I said, ‘Thanks be to God.’ I know,
of course, that this was not nice of me, but he will forgive me, for he knows
that I was saying it to the Lady, for not abandoning us, and for not discrediting
her concerns ...” Ida immediately hurries to her spiritual director
and asks him for the sealed envelope. Because Fr. Frehe can no longer remember
it, she even has to show him where he was keeping it. Then Ida gives him the
copy of the message which, at his wish, she had written down on Ash Wednesday.
Great is Fr. Frehe’s surprise, and he immediately sends the sealed original
to Rome. There it will be a trustworthy proof of the authenticity of the messages
for those in responsibility.
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The Second Vatican Council
and the Prayer of the Lady of All Nations
On February 11, 1951, in the same message in which
the Lady reveals her prayer, Ida sees the Pope in the Vatican with the tiara
on his head, one hand holding a scepter, and the other with two fingers raised
in blessing. Around him are gathered many cardinals as well as bishops of all
nations wearing white miters. Ida does not know that she is being shown a prophetic
vision of the Second Vatican Council. The Holy Father has a large, thick book
before him, and she hears, “Changes
have already been made, and others are in progress. I, however, want to bring
the Son’s message. The doctrine is right, but the laws can and must be
changed. I want to tell you this on this very day, for the world is undergoing
great upheaval––nobody knows in which direction. That is why the
Son wants me to bring this message.” At this moment the vision
of the council is interrupted, and the visionary is guided before the Cross
and brought to share in painful suffering. “And
now suddenly I am standing before a large Cross. While looking at it, I am seized
with terrible pains. I get muscle cramps from head to foot. … It is as
if my head is split asunder, and I get a feverish feeling…. I can bear
it no longer and ask the Lady whether it might pass. While I am still standing
with the Lady before the Cross, she says, ‘Repeat
after me. … Pray before the Cross:
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In large letters Ida now sees the word ‘LOVE’ written, and with
encouraging words Mary turns toward the weak and little ones of this world:
“if you practice Love among yourselves
in all its refinement, even the great ones will not have a chance.
…The fight no longer concerns races and peoples; the fight concerns the
spirit. Understand this well.”
“Then the Lady folds her hands,”
and again Ida sees the Holy Father with the cardinals and bishops.
“Then the Lady says, as if speaking
to the Pope,
‘You can save this world. I have said
more than once: Rome has its chance.
Seize the present moment. No church in the world is built-up like yours’”
(February 11, 1951).
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At that time nobody in the world—probably
least of all the visionary herself—could even imagine that this
impressive scene stood for the Second Vatican Council. Ida herself describes
what happened more than ten years later:
“It says in the messages, ‘I see the Vatican, and right in
the middle of it is standing the Pope.’ Actually, though, I described
this inadequately. I saw the Vatican, and then I entered St. Peter’s
together with the Lady. We walked through the nave, halting approximately
in the middle of the Basilica. On either side I saw stands, benches, mounted
up in tiers as in a stadium. I saw bishops with white miters sitting on
all these benches. I can still recall the scene very clearly. To me it
was such a comic sight, all those white miters, that I started laughing
to myself. I found the view nice, somehow festive. The Lady saw this,
and therefore said to me, ‘Look
well!’ as if to say,
‘Watch carefully what I show you. ... Look
well, these are the bishops of all countries.’
“Of course, it had to be so, for there were lots of bishops sitting
there. I also saw the Pope sitting there, with the tiara on his head.
I knew it was a tiara, because the Lady had already shown me this in previous
messages. He held a scepter in one hand, and raised two fingers in the
other. The Pope sat at the far end of the nave, where the Lady and I were
standing. A few priests were standing about him. The bishops and cardinals,
however, were all seated along the side. I even saw some clerics seated
on the floor in front of the benches. I then saw that the Pope had a large,
bulky book before him. Of course I didn’t know what sort of book
it was. Later on I saw this whole scene on television. I found it delightful.
I called out enthusiastically, ‘There you have the scene which I
saw. So this is what it meant!’ What a pity that I did not describe
it in the messages. But at that time I did tell it immediately to Fr.
Frehe and my sisters and brother. And so they all know that I saw it like
that.”
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Ecumenical Meeting in
the Vatican
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Already sixteen years before the memorial meeting
on March 23, 1966, in the Sistine Chapel between the highest Anglican
dignitary, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul
VI, the visionary of Amsterdam describes the following vision, “Then
I see the Pope on our left, with two fingers raised. On the other side,
facing him, is the bishop of Canterbury. Beside him, then, yet another
clergyman suddenly appears. The latter is wearing a white wig with stiff
curls or waves…” (Aug. 15, 1950). This is what Ida
saw and wrote down, and years later she sees the same scene on television.
Ida not only recognizes Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury,
but they are also standing exactly as she had seen them in the vision.
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The
Fall of the Berlin Wall
and the Iron Curtain
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| November 9, 1989, The Berlin Wall at
Brandenburg Gate |
Already in 1950, Ida sees the reunification of
Germany. “The Lady points at
a thick line in Germany, and she says,
‘Europe is divided in two.’”
The visionary must move her hand and says, “I
remove that line with one sweep of the hand” (Dec. 10, 1950).
Forty years later, in the year 1989, we ourselves witnessed the fall of
the Berlin Wall, of which the East German President, Honecker, claimed
full of conviction, just three weeks before the memorial event, “The
Wall will stand another 100 years!”
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Chinese
Communist Revolution
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| The first photograph of Mao Tse-tung
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On October 7, 1945, Ida has a short but clear
vision of the ‘Far East’. “I
see China with a red flag!”
Four years later, the vision becomes reality. On October 1, 1949, After
two years of civil war between the Communists and the armies of General
Tchang Kai-Chek, the victorious Communist Party leader, Mao Tse-tung,
proclaims the People’s Republic of China.
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Landing on the Moon
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When Ida sees a vision in 1946 of the landing
on the moon and experiences the feeling of zero gravity, she has no idea
what she will be watching in complete awe twenty-three years later on
television—the first landing on the moon (July 20, 1969). In 1967
she recounts,
“Later,
it was again as if I were standing with the Lady on the globe. I cannot
express it in another way. Then she referred to something and I saw the
moon very clearly before me. Then something approached and landed on the
moon. That is why I said, ‘Something is landing on the moon.’
I did not know how to explain it otherwise. I was standing over the globe,
but actually I was not standing either; it was more like I was floating
in the air. Naturally, that was very rare for me. These kinds of things
are also very difficult for me to explain: A type of natural phenomenon.
However it was a type of airspace that I saw; it must have been something
like that.
Still later
she wrote, “Was not the landing on the moon tremendous? Exactly
as the Lady showed it to me on February 7, 1946. It is too bad that I
did not know back then what it was and what it meant. Therefore I only
described it in the words that the Lady let me say, ‘Something is
landing on the moon.’ Back then I saw something coming down very
quickly, a practically cubic, white thing landing on the moon. It was
an amazing moment.”
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Biological Weapons
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The following excerpt from the December 26, 1947
message makes reference to the pressing danger for America and Europe
of terrorist attacks with chemical and biological weapons. The visionary
Ida Peerdeman told:
“I see America and Europe lying
side by side. After this I see written: ‘Economic warfare, Boycotting,
Currency crises, Disasters’. … Then I see a very peculiar
scene. I have to look at the sky, and something seems to be launched into
it. There is something flying past me so rapidly that I can hardly see
it. It is shaped like a cigar or a torpedo, and its color is like that
of aluminum.
“All of a sudden I see something shooting off from the back. I feel
about with my hand, and different terrible sensations come over me. At
first a total numbness. I live and yet I do not live. Then I see horrible
images of people before me. I see faces, wide faces, covered with dreadful
ulcers, something like leprosy. Then I feel terrible deadly diseases:
cholera, leprosy––everything those people have to suffer.
“Then that is gone again, and I see tiny little black things floating
about me. I try to feel what it is, but that is not possible. It seems
to be very fine matter. With my eyes I cannot discern what it is. It is
as if I would have to look through something, and below I now see brilliant
white fields. Upon those fields I see those little black things, but enlarged,
and it is as if they are alive. I don’t know how to describe this
properly. I ask the Lady, ‘Are these bacilli?’ She answers
very seriously, ‘It is
hellish.’ Then I feel
my face and my whole body swelling. It feels like my face gets very bloated,
and everything is stiff and swollen. I cannot move. I hear the Lady say,
‘And that is what they are inventing,’
and then very softly, ‘the
Russians, but the others as well.’ After
this the Lady says emphatically,
‘Peoples, be warned!’”
This message, given already in 1947, is more relevant today than ever.
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Source:
P. Paul Maria Sigl: "Die Frau aller Völker 'Miterlöserin Mittlerin
Fürsprecherin'" (25. März 1998)
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