Tuesday, June 12, 2012

“Peter’s tomb is not in the Vatican”

St. Peter is not where we think he is. 

During the Second World War, the mystic, Maria Valtorta, recounted what Jesus had allowed her to “see”: Peter was never buried on the Vatican Hill, the place of his martyrdom. His remains were actually buried and looked after by Christians in what are known today as the catacombs of Ss. Marcellinus and Peter in Via Casilina in Rome. 

The mystic also warned Pius XII of the “black legend” that was to strike down upon him for having kept silent about the Holocaust. 

“In a dictate dated December 1943, Jesus urges Pius XII to publicly denounce the Nazi antichrist and the Jewish genocide, accepting his consequent martyrdom. In order to avoid being accused of connivance in the future. Which is precisely what happened.”
 
The prophetic warning (of which Pope Pacelli was informed in December 1943 when no one knew about the Holocaust yet) given by the Viareggian mystic, Maria Valtorta, is revealed in the latest work by Italian author and journalist, Antonio Socci, entitled “I giorni della tempesta” (Stormy days) published by Rizzoli. 

The book is a metaphysical mystery set in 2015, that revolves around the conclave, criminal plots and the persecution of the Church. The themes and characters are all current. The story unfolds around a pope’s death and the beginning of a Conclave. 

“To me, the sede vacante period represents uncertainty and general confusion,” Socci explained to Vatican Insider

It is partly a metaphor of our times, of the world and of the Church. During the suspense-filled moments of the sede vacante period, armed with faith and having listened to Valtorta’s explosive revelations some daring individuals begin a race against time to find the real tomb and body of St. Peter, in the Torpignattara catacomb. 

This represents the search for an enlightening, protective and guiding fatherly presence that can ward off a looming catastrophe. Above all for the Church (Peter represents a rediscovery of its origins), but also for the history of all humankind, which is searching for the meaning of life and for the world’s shady and turbulent history.”
 
Socci then went on to add: “I sincerely hope that this book will contribute to the discovery made in Maria Valtorta’s work, particularly in "L'Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato" (The Gospel as it was revealed to me) Socci said he hoped “archaeological research would finally begin in the catacombs of Ss. Marcellinus and Peter, which have recently revealed some big surprises. If the tomb of the prince of the Apostles really was discovered there, it would probably be the biggest archaeological find in the history of Christianity.”
 
The most intense parts of the book deal with the difficult Second World War period. Mystic, Maria Valtorta, claims that communism and Nazism were part of one single satanic force despite appearing separate: “Jesus stresses that it is not a conflict of ideologies. This is a battle between Heaven and hell. Hidden behind the smokescreen of race, hegemony and rights and behind the motive of political necessity, are in fact Heaven and hell, engaged in a fight between one another. This is one of the first selection tests humanity has to go through as its final hour approaches.” 

“As such, it invites Christians to testify the truth until martyrdom. This goes for the Pope as well.” And on 24 June 1943, Pope Pius XII is added to the list of innocent victims.
 
Meanwhile, word had got round in the Vatican about Maria Valtorta’s visions of St. Peter’s death and burial. 

Indeed, archaeological excavations underneath the altar of the Confession in St. Peter’s Basilica have continued for ten years now. They began during attempts to create a burial site for Pius XI and continued in order to look for traces of the apostle’s grave and possibly his body’s remains. 

In another conversation with the Viareggian mystic, Jesus said to her: “How you have changed since the times of the early Christians who did not consider anything human but only looked up to Heaven! It is true that I said you must be prudent as serpents, but not humanly prudent. I also told you that in order to follow Me you have to be bold. You have to fight against self love; against power when it pursues you, because you are my followers” and also “because only one thing is necessary: to save one’s soul, even if it means losing life in the flesh in order to achieve eternal Life.”
 
During the Second World War, Jesus urged humanity to follow the example of the early martyrs. 

On 29 February 1944, he said the following regarding the witnesses of Jesus’ faith: “They were dying and their dying broke down the wall of paganism. The blood which flowed out of the myriads of wounds caused the walls of paganism to crumble, spilling all over Cesar’s militia, Cesar’s palace, circuses and baths. Rome’s soil is steeped in this blood and the city rises and one could say it is cemented with the blood and dust of my martyrs. The few hundreds of martyrs you know are nothing compared to the thousands that lie buried in the bowels of Rome and all those who were burnt at the stake, their cinders blown away by the wind, or those who were torn to pieces or swallowed up by beasts and reptiles, turning into excrement that was brushed and thrown away like common manure.” “Their complete annihilation, right down to the skeleton, is what fertilised the wild soil of the pagan world, more than any manure, preparing it to receive the Grain of Heaven.”

 And so, the Church’s victory over paganism was not won by humans but, paradoxically, through martyrdom. During those terrible months of 1943 and 1944, Jesus continually repeated to Maria Valtorta that Nazi fascism and communism (which he did not refer to directly and could have been thinking of something else) were satanic powers and constituted a kind of paganism that was worse than its ancient form. Despite the fact that during the war they had first been allies and then adversaries. 

Indeed, on 19 June, Jesus spoke through Maria Valtorta, explaining: “There only appears to be division. The order given by Lucifer to the various demons in this war does not differ according to State. It is one single order to all. This shows that the kingdom of Satan is not divided and this is why it endures. This order sounds something like this: “Spread horror, desperation, errors, so that people may tire of God and curse him.”