June 1, 1821:
“I saw the Holy Father very prayerful and God-fearing, his figure perfect, though worn out by old age and manifold sufferings [Pope Benedict XVI], his head sunk on his breast as if in sleep. He often fainted away and seemed to be dying. I often saw him supported by apparitions during his prayer, and then his head was upright. When it sank upon his breast, then were the minds of many turned quickly here and there; that is, viewing things in a worldly light…. These visions were so frightful that I came near crying out. I see in the future religion falling so low that it will be practiced only here and there in farmhouses and in families protected by God during the horrors of war.”
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