August 6, 2006
BEATIFUL:
Cuban legend may predict Castro's death (UPI, 8/05/06)
A Spanish priest, San Antonio MarÃa Claret, had been sent to Cuba to become archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, coincidentally Castro's home province. While riding his horse through Sierra Maestra -- also coincidentally Castro's mountain rebel stronghold in the mid-1950s -- he saw La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre in a vision.Posted by Orrin Judd at August 6, 2006 3:46 PMShe relayed to him the future of Cuba in the hands of a leader that resembled Castro -- long hair, a beard, a uniform, bearing weapons with followers who look just like him.
He would promise reforms to the Cuban people but betray, imprison, divide and inflict them with great pain and heartache.
Claret said the virgin told him the ruler would rule for four decades, and Cuba would be devastated during this time. However, the young man would grow old and die -- and Cuba would be free.
"Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, The Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated, and in the end my immaculate heart will triumph," our lady of Fatima foretold in 1917 and a little later, while thousand of people saw prodgies in the sky.
Since Fatima, after John Paul the Great was shot a half-century later and the various communist "nations" of the FORMER SOVIET UNION winked out into nothingness, we had to look at marian apparitions a littlemoreclosely.
Posted by: Lou Gots at August 6, 2006 5:52 PMI always thought she was talking about Pope Pius XII. Either way, nobody profits arguing with the Mother of God in the end.
Posted by: mcf at August 7, 2006 12:05 AMWouldn't now be a good time to reveal the secret prophecy of Fatima?
Posted by: erp at August 7, 2006 5:46 PM