JOAN OF ARC AND THE PUBLIC RECORD
by Sherlock
There are websites whose authors pose as knowledgeable people. But they have agendas, and the only “knowledge” they have is how to lie with the intent of tearing down what is good. Why? Because they suck so bad they have to bring everyone down to their level.
What prompted this comment was a site I saw whose writer claimed Joan of Arc was mentally ill because she “heard voices.” This same shithead said she was only a mascot, not a leader in the sense of the word. The author clearly hates religious and patriotic people.
This puke and other scumbags have claimed Joan was a role model for lesbians and other misfires of nature. This puke and other scumbags call her a cross-dresser.
All of this written diarrhea by the puke and others like him is meant to diminish Joan as a miraculous young woman sent by God to help people.
However, the public records of France show him and others like him to be liars.
Tapestry, St. Joan of Arc Parish, Perry Twp., Ohio
The public records of France include the transcript of the 1431 trial in which the quisling French clerics who condemned Joan to being burned alive, and the transcript of the 1455-1456 rehabilitation trial which Pope Callistus ordered to determine if there was adequate evidence to clear Joan’s name. During the trial that cost Joan her life, the Inquisition in France lobbied in vain to save her life and have her released from English imprisonment because their priests considered her a patriotic Frenchwoman and a true daughter of God who had done nothing to deserve the abuse she was getting.
Paris and most of northern France were in English hands during the phase of the Hundred Years War Joan fought in. Joan’s Lorraine, in eastern France near the Rhine and Germany, had an area in the hands of men loyal to France. Charles the Dauphin (crown prince) of France, was on the verge of losing his lands in the rest of France to the English. His father King Charles VI had gone stark raving mad (and was confined in a large home in Paris), and his mother Queen Isabeau slept around with favorites at court. The English and King Charles’ internal enemies put out the word their son was a bastard, and thus not his rightful descendant. Charles VI, in his mental illness now called Charles the Mad, was convinced to sign a treaty in 1420, 9 years before Joan rode into battle, turning his daughter over to Henry V of England as a bride and turning France over to Henry V as well after his death. (Perhaps his signature or seal was placed there by a member of the court in English pay. Madness of the leader and selling out by those who control the power in his name may well be what the Biden usurpation looks like when done.)
MAP OF FRANCE, 1429
Henry V, however, died before Charles the Mad died. This gave patriotic French noblemen and military men a chance to rally around Charles VI’s son, the Dauphin. However, the English continued to press his forces because they wished to control France as a colony of England. The ruler of Burgundy, a portion of France south and east of Paris, was an ally of the English king. Joan had to ride from Vaucoulers, north of her home village of Domremy, thru Burgundian and English controlled areas to report to the crown prince at Chinon in the southwestern Loire Valley, not far from the Atlantic Ocean.
The crown prince and his court tried to trick Joan by putting one of the courtiers on the throne in the castle at Chinon. But she picked him out of the crowd, and spoke privately with him away from the others, telling him something that amazed him and put him into a mode for some action instead of hiding. It is presumed Joan told the crown prince it was revealed to her he was the legitimate son of Charles the Mad and Queen Isabeau.
Charles the dauphin’s mother-in-law, Yolanda de Aragon, daughter of the King of Aragon, who ruled today’s Barcelona, Catalonia, Zaragoza, Aragon, the cities and areas of northeastern Spain closest to the Pyrenees mountain chain and the Mediterranean coast of France. The laws of Aragon prohibited her from ruling as queen. Meanwhile, she was busy behind the scenes trying to put the foot to her son-in-law’s behind so he would fight for what was his.
Due to the deaths of their queens and the remarriages of the king of Aragon, Yolanda’s sons couldn’t inherit the crown. She was a shirt-tail great-aunt of Fernando of Aragon, who would marry Isabella of Castile, who chose him over two other royal suitors. Together they would merge their realms, throw the Moslems out of Spain, and rule as Spain’s greatest King and Queen. So Yolanda concentrated her efforts on helping Charles the Dauphin.
When Joan came to the little French court in Chinon, Yolanda of Aragon immediately took a liking to her. She funded much of Joan’s army expenses from her own funds. She put men of her own into the circle around Charles who would contest the treacherous officials in his court. One of her distasteful duties was seeing to it that ladies of the court checked Joan’s hymen to verify she was a virgin as she claimed. Joan aced this humiliating test. A duty Yolanda far preferred was winning many of the wives of the French noblemen over to Joan. She ensured Joan, who was a peasant, would have some dresses that were tasteful but not frilly by the standards of the day to appear in before these women and discuss her mission with them and patiently answer their questions. These dresses set off the tomboyish but attractive Joan at her best, and Joan was thankful to Yolanda of Aragon for her help.
Joan and her men raise the siege of Orleans. Fainting by Jules Lenepreu.
Joan and her men would push the English from besieging Orleans and from the rest of the Loire Valley, south and west of Paris, in the spring of 1429. They then cut a swath between Paris and Burgundy to Reims in northeastern France, near present-day Belgium, to allow the crown prince to be crowned in Reims as King Charles VII. (Kings of France since Pepin, the father of Charlemagne, had been coronated in Reims in memory of Reims Bishop Remigius baptizing King of the Franks Clovis in 508 AD. The French revered this formidable bishop and nicknamed him Dom Remi – Father Remi. Joan of Arc’s village was named for him.) The coronation took place in July 1429.
Charles VII then disbanded most of Joan’s army after she had him crowned king, but he would not release Joan from royal service. He kept her as a member of his court, but gave her no official duties. Those of his courtiers who were secretly in the pay of the English wanted her watched and it was easier for them to do so if she was a courtier within reach and without her loyal soldiers. Joan called these vermin traitors to their faces. Joan stayed put at court out of a sense of duty. She tried to encourage Charles VII to complete the job of ridding France of the English pests. She tried to stay ready for combat by fighting France’s enemies still in the country between Reims and Paris. Burgundians captured her in May 1430 as she and a few of her soldiers, including two of her brothers, were trying to raise the siege of Compiegne, near Reims and northeast of Paris. The Burgundians demanded a ransom for Joan, but Charles VII decided not even to make an offer. Joan’s brothers were gravely wounded in the skirmish that cost Joan her freedom. They got nothing from the ungrateful king who refused to ransom their sister.
Capture of Joan of Arc. From a work by Cunha Alvarenga.
The Burgundians sold Joan to the English, and the English had a quisling bishop in their pay named Pierre Cauchon try her for sorcery, heresy, adultery, and other false charges. Like with the Deep State today, it was not enough to murder Joan …. they wanted to destroy her good name.
The trial took place in a castle in Rouen, in Normandy, across the English Channel from England, in 1431. The vermin condemned her and turned her over to the English in May 1431. The English chained her to a pillar and burned her alive before a crowd in the market square in Rouen on May 30, 1431.
The Duke of Burgundy switched sides, and Charles VII raised another army. French soldiers (including those from Burgundy) finally won the Hundred Years War in 1453. The English claimed Charles was not a legitimate king because a convicted sorceress (Joan) put the crown on his head.
Meanwhile, Joan of Arc’s mother, still angry over her daughter’s murder, petitioned the Pope to clear Joan’s good name. She and Joan’s father owned and farmed 50 acres, and while he was alive he also served the local warlord as a village official and tax collector. They were peasants of above-average income for their time, and although they read very little, they were of above-average intelligence. Joan did not grow up beaten down or totally ignorant, even though she was almost illiterate. She loved her religion and her nation’s history. She could do arithmetic, and possessed a keen memory, excellent powers of observation, and a shrewd common sense that complemented her kindly nature. Joan pitched in with the chores of tending livestock and doing woman’s work in the home.
Charles VII, who did nothing to save Joan though he owed his crown to her, had to file in support of Joan’s mother to save his own legitimacy as a king. So Pope Callistus III ordered a trial, and this took place in Paris in 1455 and into 1456. Joan’s mother and brothers appeared at trial as witnesses. So did her surviving officers. So did some of those involved in her trial and execution … they appeared under subpoena. The pope’s inquiry consisted of churchmen from across Europe, and they interviewed more than 100 witnesses. They cleared Joan of all false charges against her in July 1456. They ruled the English and their French lackeys wrongfully abused, condemned, and murdered Joan.
The transcripts of both trials said Joan was clear about the messages she received from God and the saints, and they invariably proved to be true. The transcripts also said she gave orders daily, and that she was often in the thick of the fighting. Joan also ran off the camp followers – the “military” prostitutes, and still kept her soldiers in ranks. Her officers also noted she threatened one of her subordinates with execution if he disobeyed one of her orders again. She also told the king, the miserable Charles VII, that two of his chief advisors were traitors while they were present, and the king didn’t punish her for her boldness. Mascots don’t have that kind of power.
Still from JOAN OF ARC, 1948. Ingrid Bergman as Joan (blonde, not black haired) is wearing a gray tunic, gray hose, and boots, a typical uniform of a better equipped soldier. In civilian attire, she would have worn a red or maroon dress like the woman next to her. The scene shows her in Vaucouleurs, waiting to set off to report to the Dauphin in Chinon.
As for the cross-dressing charge?
Joan was called by God to lead the French in battle. One who is a soldier wears a uniform. The local warlord in Vaucoulers who sent Joan and two knights who pledged her fealty and a collection of young guys he forced into her service provided her with a horse, armor, a sword, pairs of male hose (which were like thin stirrup pants with leather waistlines), tunics, and tall boots. No mention was made of Joan being abnormal. If she was to be a leader of soldiers, she had to dress like one and fight like one.
Joan’s English and French enemies made much of her “male garb” to discredit her. Joan sensibly replied since she was serving as a military leader she had to wear the uniform her men wore. It wasn’t smart for a girl to flash flesh among her sex-starved men, especially when she declared she was a virgin who demanded ethical conduct and Mass attendance for her men. The ladies of Charles VII’s French court had verified Joan was a virgin. Joan said she often slept in her armor in the field to protect her modesty.
Joan’s enemies the English and the French who were quislings said falsely she was a whore. Joan proved them false by undergoing a second humiliating physical exam by enemy women to verify her hymen was still intact.
Joan didn’t mind wearing a dress. She wore a red peasant dress until the day the local warlord ensured she had military garb. The record also notes one of the women at the French court (likely Yolanda of Aragon) had a brown dress with silver trim made for Joan that the men said really made her look great. Joan was said also to like red and green and blue garments. But dresses weren’t appropriate for battles and campaigning outside in rough conditions.
Joan’s officers testified at her trial of rehabilitation that during the siege of Orleans, Joan suffered a crossbow bolt wound just above her left breast. The bolt got in thru a weak spot in her armor. They said Joan was barechested during the removal of the bolt and the dressing of her wound. Her officers said Joan was attractive, but they added in so many words they were afraid they would be struck dead if they felt any lust for her or even gawked at her breasts while she was being treated for her wound.
Joan told the evil judges who condemned her she had to tie her hose and her tall boots to her tunic with leather cords to make it harder for their guards to rape her. After Joan agreed to wear a dress in prison under pain of being executed for refusing to do so, the guards did try to rape her, and so did an English nobleman. The scumbag guards stole the dress when she was using the latrine and she had to go back to wearing the hose and tunic (and tying her boots and hose to the tunic). The English and the evil Bishop Cauchon and the other quislings in the French clergy rejoiced, and they had her burned at the stake very quickly.
Was Joan a lesbian? Hell, no! This is libel on its face on the part of the perverted and demented. In one respect, some lesbians who respect Joan cling to the falsehood because they wish she was like them. This is not evil, necessarily, but sad and understandable. Most people want heroes like themselves. Many lesbians share this emotion too.
The rehabilitation trial records show Joan’s officers testified Joan enjoyed the company of men, she had a farm girl’s coarse (but not vulgar) sense of humor, and she had a crush on one of the officers, Duke Jean d’Alençon. (Pronounced John De Allenson.) They said she had little pet names for him, like “fair duke” and “pretty duke.” But since he was a married man, Joan couldn’t have him and be true to her word to stay a virgin to stay true to her mission to save France. So, they said, she did not give in to her passions, They also testified Joan behaved with decorum around him and around them.
D’Alençon, of all the top officers, liked Joan the most and worked very hard for her. He was also the youngest and handsomest of her top men. It was only natural for Joan as a red-blooded country gal to like him the best and have a crush on him. But Joan came to like and respect her other senior subordinates, who unlike the top generals in our military today were real men, and she called them all “friends.”
Joan also did a huge favor for D’Alençon’s wife, who came to visit him in camp. Joan told her it was revealed to her that her husband would survive the wars and come home to her safe and sound. Sadly, his wife, also a Jeanne (Joan is English for Jeanne), died a year after Joan was executed.
D’Alençon, who was suspected of plotting against Charles VII, still the king of France at the time of the rehabilitation trial, boldly showed up at the trial and affirmed the testimony of his brother officers. He also said Joan made no advances to him, nor did he make any to her. He said in so many words he feared he would be struck dead by God if he did show any lust toward Joan.
Many military men have been heroes in war. Only one has the heart of Joan of Arc on his résumé.
Others testified Joan of Arc wished to live in peace and raise a family. The title she gave herself was “la Pucelle”, meaning “the maiden” or “virgin girl”. Joan said she had promised her saints to “maintain my virginity for as long as it pleases God.” In other words, she was okay with being a wife and mother, and in that order, when the time was right for her, if God would allow her to find the right man and marry him.
Joan hailed an English soldier who admired her for her courage and saluted her. From a work by Cunha Alvarenga.
Scribes wrote down the transcript of the trial which cost Joan her life. They noted the black-clad booted teenager with black hair worn in a pageboy cut was bold and insolent and wise even without being allowed a lawyer to represent her in the sham trial. They noted she sternly and boldly warned that court of scumbag clergy to be careful in how they treated her because she was on a mission from God Himself. No one not used to having authority would have answered such a court in that bold a fashion.
The scribes noted only a priest from the Inquisition tried to intercede on Joan’s behalf, and the corrupt Bishop Cauchon and the English blocked him.
The record the scribes kept noted Joan boasted to the vermin who tried her she was as a good a spinner of wool as any woman in Rouen (where her trial was). She added there were too many men doing “women’s work” (shirking military duty) so she was directed by God to take up arms for her people. Joan tried to escape twice, and told her jailers defiantly it was a prisoner’s right to escape. The scribes noted Joan also avoided torture on the rack by telling the vermin who tried her that if the rack broke her, people would know it was the torture talking and not her talking.
These trial records are public records in France and they have been translated from Latin into French. Mark Twain got an English translation for the transcripts to aid him in writing the majestic and at the same time loving novel “Joan of Arc.”
Virginia Frohlick runs the Saint Joan Center in New Mexico. She has archived many records and writings about the saint, and her work is on line. To learn more about our Joan, check out her site http://www.stjoan-center.com/
Some Protestants called Joan a Protestant because she fought against evil clergy. Their wishful conclusion is also false. Joan appealed to the Pope, but her captors squashed the appeal, so he never got it. Joan also threatened the Hussite Protestants in what is now the Czech Republic that if God let her live to see France free, she would invade Bohemia and defeat them for being heretics against God’s Church. Another record in the woman’s own words defeats wishful thinking.
Joan’s mother Isabelle, speaking at her rehabilitation trial, summed up this Daughter of God’s life as only a mother can:
“I had a daughter born in lawful wedlock, whom I had furnished worthily with the sacraments of baptism and confirmation and had reared in the fear of God and respect for the tradition of the Church… yet although she never did think, conceive, or do anything whatever which set her out of the path of the faith… certain enemies … had her arraigned in religious trial… in a trial perfidious, violent, iniquitous, and without shadow of right… did they condemn her in a fashion damnable and criminal, and put her to death very cruelly by fire… for the damnation of their souls and in notorious, infamous, and irreparable damage done to me, Isabelle, and mine.”
God made Joan a leader, a hero, and a saint. But, given the testimony of Joan’s mother, He started off with a girl worthy of the calling.
SATAN’S GREATEST ENEMY
99 and I went to Mass and confession on a recent Saturday evening. I told our pastor I was greatly angry over how the people in the government, the military, and the intelligence community were running things. He said evil would eventually fail, but that we needed to pray for our officials and generals because they are prone to Satanic attack (and in many cases are easy for Satan to tempt).
The attachment to corruption and perverse practices have marked too many of the people who hold office in this country as those who have succumbed to Satan’s attacks so thoroughly they are now on Satan’s side.
Our priest recently gave a sermon that sums as follows:
Evil exists, and Satan and evil spirits exist. Satan and evil spirits do tremendous damage, but they are powerless unless we consent to do evil and harm ourselves and others. We have the nature and the desire to do evil, but with self-control and God’s help we can overcome the desire to do evil.
God will stay out of our lives if we expel Him …. but our lives won’t go too well if we lack His guidance and grace.
Evil stays away from us if we seek God, and seek to do His will.
Who is Satan’s greatest enemy? The woman is known as Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.
NOTE: Satan is not big enough to be the enemy of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They created him, like all the other spirits and demons and people. Christ, shown here, could easily rip Satan’s arm out and beat him to death with it. Satan, aka Lucifer, was cast out of Heaven and his long life is a curse to his soul. He opposes all of us.
Some Catholics try to reduce Mary to a sickly sweet character.
Or they inflate her wrongfully as a “co-redeemer” with Christ,
Only Christ died on the Cross like a blood sacrifice to redeem us. God in human form suffered death for His creatures, which is an astounding thing to ponder. It is also the root of forgiveness and the order for us to live according to God’s commandments. If one of the persons of the Trinity could lay down His own life for creatures another person of the Trinity created, than it would be expected that people should do their best to do God’s will. We all sin, which explains the need for and the existence of God’s forgiveness.
It is true Mary facilitated Christ’s role as Redeemer by birthing Him in human form at risk to her own life if she was found out to be pregnant in a culture whose people killed unwed mothers. Mary did risk her life for humanity in helping God the Son fulfill His mission of redemption. But only God Himself can redeem.
Mary, who was engaged to Joseph the carpenter, did have the shock of being told she was pregnant, and her son would be unique.
Since Mary hadn’t had sex with Joseph and it was possible she could be executed, this news disturbed her greatly. But when the Angel Gabriel explained Who her Son was going to be, she Maryed up and said, “Let it be done unto me according to your word.”
Mary, while carrying Jesus in her womb, walked to the town where her kinswoman Elizabeth was to help her out in the weeks before the birth of her own child John the Baptist.
Mary and Joseph, upon getting the word Herod sent troops out to murder the Christ Child, packed on a moment’s notice and went to Egypt. (Egypt, like the Holy Land, was also under Roman rule, so the bedwetters who call them illegal immigrants to push the leftist agenda are once again full of excrement to the bursting point.) Then the Holy Family quickly moved to back to the Holy Land, to Nazareth, when the time was right.
Mary must have been a beautiful and kind woman. None who saw the Christ Child said Mary was ugly or ungracious. And she could pack up and get out of town in a hurry, unlike most women.
Mary’s foot on Serpent’s head. St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. All real mothers who serve God do what they think they need to do to protect their children. Courtesy of Russ Martin the “Steeple Chaser.”
Mary was constantly concerned for Christ’s safety. She was also concerned for others, like the couple at Cana who were about to be embarrassed for running out of wine at their wedding feast.
Some say, either out of sincere ignorance, or out of a sincere misunderstanding of the Bible, or out of a desire to minimize Mary or out of inbred anti-Catholic bigotry, that she and Joseph had children after Jesus.
This didn’t happen.
First of all, sibling and cousin were interchangeable words in Hebrew. Those who read about Christ’s brothers in the Bible err if they think in terms of nuclear family. Christ was speaking about His relatives. In fact, Simon the Zealot and Jude (2 of the 12 Apostles) and James the Just (the author of the Epistle of James), were kin to Christ and were referred to as His brothers by three of the Gospel writers, by Luke in the Book of Acts, and by Paul the Apostle. Mary did not give birth to any of these men, but they were kin who followed Christ and helped Him in His mission. A relative of Mary, the Mary who married Clopas, was the mother of these three great men.
Many Christian religions grant the individual believer has personal interpretation competence in reading the Bible. Catholics and Orthodox Christians, members of the two oldest of the Christian faiths, encourage Bible reading but stress the need for having a Bible with a competent church commentary for context. They are not believers in personal interpretation competence, for good reason.
While admirable in getting people to read Sacred Scripture, the notion that virtually all people are by and large competent to personally interpret the Bible has given many people credit they don’t deserve. Especially sexual abusers and child sex traffickers like Tony Alamo, child molesters like David Koresh, and like Jim Jones, the purple Kool-Aid Communist and bisexual preacher. Taken to its extremes, vermin like these would be just as good at understanding and preaching the gospel as Billy Graham, which is idiocy. Too many have twisted the Good Book into a pretzel by filtering it thru their defective brains.
The Jews of the Sion Centre in London remind us that Mary was a Jewish woman, and at the time of Jesus’ birth, a very young woman in her teens. In that era, a girl of 12 knew how to run a household, do chores, and earn a living as a farm laborer or domestic laborer or as a young tradeswoman like a seamstress or a weaver. Sion Centre photo.
Even noted anti-Catholics such as Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli, and later Charles Wesley, believed in the perpetual virginity of Mary. Zwingli was a desecrator of Catholic churches and yet he was on the same page with the Catholics on this aspect of Mary.
Second, no sibling stepped up to take Mary in when the Romans and the Jewish leaders murdered Jesus on Good Friday. Jesus entrusted His mother to the care of the Apostle John. John, according to Tradition, along with his brother James, were relatives of Jesus thru the kinship of their mother Salome with Mary.
John was the only Apostle to be with Jesus on Calvary and Jesus revealed John as His follower while those who crucified Him watched. John risked martyrdom on Good Friday and escaped it. The 10 Apostles who ran would make up for their panic with interest. They would die, one at a time, as martyrs and suffer horrible but heroic deaths.
There are the obvious questions ….. if God the Father and God the Holy Spirit chose Mary to bear Jesus – God in the flesh — what could she do for an encore? And why would God the Father and God the Holy Spirit allow Mary to come down by bearing imperfect children with original sin who could be disrespectful and pains in the neck and die in the state of mortal sin if they so chose?
Jesus died as a blood sacrifice of atonement and redemption for us all, the creatures of God. We can’t fathom how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit think. All I can say is I’m grateful God the Son died for us all. And I’m grateful that Mary allowed herself to be the way Christ would enter the world in human nature as well as Godly nature.
Back to Mary’s status as the key enemy of Satan. Mary, as the Mother of God was involved deeply in Christ’s work. She wanted Him to succeed. She hated evil. She risked the wrath of her townspeople to discomfort herself, go to Bethlehem, and bear Jesus at night, in the cold, in a stable.
Most of us sin regularly and most of us have committed mortal sins. We have needed God’s forgiveness again and again and again. History records some of the most charitable women, from Mary Magdalene to some of the women who aided their towns in the Western U.S. during times of trouble, were prostitutes. King David likewise had Uriah the Hittite killed in battle to cover up his vile adultery with Uriah’s wife Bathsheba. God forgave all of them when they sought His mercy, and they used the inherently good parts of their personalities to help others.
We also know from personal experience there are people who on the surface live holier-than-thou lives like the Pharisees but are uncharitable dried-up souls. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said he met one couple well renowned for their charity and piety, but noticed they did nothing but batter each other verbally in their loveless marriage. Likewise, many Bible thumpers see thrift and prudence as virtues more important than almsgiving and fighting against evil. So they don’t help others because they lack charity and they don’t stick their necks out for anyone because they lack courage.
They might know the Bible better than you or I, but Christ Himself dismissed knowledge of God’s word without obedience to it. He noted even the Devil can quote Scripture.
So we all sin, even the most outwardly pious among us. That’s where we are open to satanic attack.
Mary and Eve The artist is saying Mary is consoling Eve, and helping Eve prepare for Purgatory and Heaven. And she is stepping on the head of the Serpent who led Eve astray.
Satan’s first great lie is to convince us that it is okay to do wrong to lead us to sin. Satan’s second great lie is to convince us God will not forgive us of our sins to make us despair and fail to ask for forgiveness and reform our lives.
Satan and evil spirits are like execrable reptiles. (You can not cut a reptile into too many pieces, I say.) The Blessed Virgin Mary and all of us as descendants of Adam and Eve have the power to strike at the head of evil and deliver mortal blows to evil if we trust in God and obey Him.
Mary had the fury of a mother whose child is being hurt. And it goes as far back as the Book of Genesis. Our pastor said one of his favorite possessions is a statue of Mary stomping on Satan’s slimy head.
Mary multitasks like all good mothers. This time she uses a spear instead of her sandals. The Baby Jesus steadies her aim. You can’t cut a reptile into too many pieces, I say.
The Douay Rheims Bible notes God the Father telling the serpent (Satan) the following:
“I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” Genesis 3:15
Does that sound like a sickly sweet soul, or does it sound like one who has some power?
My commentary won’t sit well with those Christians who feel they have to demean her. Tough excrement for them. She is far better than what they say she is.
My commentary won’t sit well with those Christians who want to make her virtually an equal of Christ. She wasn’t and she isn’t and she never will be.
But Mary was by far the best individual our sorry human race could provide.
Like with the poor couple at Cana, Mary can see our problems and intercede with God for us. Ask for her help. Or ask the saints for help. This doesn’t rule out asking God for help, but supplements asking Him.
THE GREAT RESET
Why am I talking about opposing Satan in 2021?
Because that vile character opposes all of us. He wants us as slaves, not followers. He has done so since he opened Hell after his expulsion from Heaven.
And there are a lot of evil manifestations of Lucifer’s work against people today, from aiding people who molest children to breaking down parental authority to destroying the binding ties of society and the institutions that have served the people of this nation and other nations in Christendom.
Politicians are thieves and perverts and dictators openly now. Many corrupt members of the clergy in all Christian faiths preach and practice a lifestyle of filth and corruption. Ditto for celebs and media people. The schools are for indoctrinating the young into objectively disordered lifestyles and emotions. Medicine companies and insurance companies and many doctors are refusing inexpensive medicines like Ivermectin or hydrochloroquine or antibodies to those suffering from Chinavirus. They would rather see us dead than use a medicine that won’t allow them to gouge us.
Lucifer Descends into Hell. By Gustave Dore.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former papal ambassador to the United States, is on the same page with us, but is more specific.
Per World Net Daily 9/1/2021, this:
“Last October, Viganò wrote an open letter to then-President Trump warning the president is “the final garrison” against the “Great Reset,” a plan by the World Economic Forum to use the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to advance globalism.
In his speech Saturday (8/28/2021, translated from the Italian and printed in Life Site News), Viganò described the Great Reset as a “criminal plan, conceived for decades and aimed at establishing a universal dictatorship in which a minority of immeasurably rich and powerful people intends to enslave and subjugate the whole of humanity to the globalist ideology.”
“The accusation of ‘conspiracy theory’ could perhaps have made sense when the conspiracy was not yet evident, but today denying what the elite has planned since the 1950s is unjustifiable,” he said.
Viganò criticized the “suspension of citizens’ rights” through “lockdowns, curfews, closures of commercial activities (and) limitations of public services.” He noted these measures have not achieved the results promised by health authorities.
“Everything that we know, discover, and understand about the global conspiracy currently unfolding shows us a tremendous reality that is also at the same time sharp and clearly defined: there are two sides, the side of God and the side of Satan, the side of the children of Light and the side of the children of darkness.”
Viganò said it must be “understood that the corrupt part of the civil authority –the deep state – and the corrupt part of ecclesiastical authority – the deep church – are two sides of the same coin, both instrumental to the establishment of the New World Order.”
“Jesus said in Matthew 12:30, “Whoever is not with Me is against Me, and whoever does not gather with Me scatters.”
Viganò said that in the “alliance between civil and religious power,” there is a spiritual dimension that must be understood in “the context of the war that Lucifer, ever since his fall, has waged against God.”
That war is coming to a conclusion he said, which is “why the forces of darkness are so wild at present, so impatient to cancel the name of Our Lord from the earth.”
Archbishop Viganò loves Americans and the Church. He has openly exposed the corruption in the Vatican and has exposed sexual abusers among the Church hierarchy while defending those who have been falsely accused. The Deep State and the leftist media and Pope Francis oppose him, so I’m betting he’s on target. I am a practicing Catholic myself. I practice but am far from perfect.
President Trump is a Protestant, but that has not stopped Archbishop Viganò from reaching out to him and praying for his success in fighting for all Americans of good will, regardless of faith. First Lady Melania is a Catholic who strayed from her faith but has returned to it. He sees in them two people willing to fight for what is good, not two sectarian bigots or two politically correct cowards.
FIGHTING WITH THE AID OF THE ANGELS AND SAINTS
I took Joan of Arc as my patroness after I entered the Army.
She is still my patroness today.
I have been in a lot of trouble throughout my life due to the nature of my work and advocacy. Each time I have had to go before the courts in such circumstances I have prayed to Saint Joan for help. And she and my guardian angels have given me wisdom and eloquence I don’t naturally have. I have always found the right things to say and the mental clarity to prove my case and seek punishment of vile criminals being protected by corrupt authorities when I have asked her for help. After all, Joan is one of God’s saints.
Joan knew the courts are full of vermin. They set her up to be raped and they burned her alive.
None of us may feel as bright or as articulate as we need to feel when we need to confront authority or other opponents. But we fight for our causes anyway because they are greater than we are.
Tell the truth in your own words. Don’t worry about eloquence. Be natural and true to what you are.
But do your prep work too. Learn the facts and practice your argument. If you can, get someone to act as opposition to steel you in front of real enemies. Even Joan practiced swordswomanship and horsewomanship. And she made her army practice soldier skills too. She told them God would bring the victory but they had to earn it and be worthy of it.
When I had to appear before a parole board to keep the killers of my greatuncle in prison, I practiced my presentation with an Army buddy of mine whose nickname is Moose. He acted the part of an ACLU asshole, trying to rooster me off of my argument. After some serious practice with Moose, I was ready to go.
The defense lawyer who opposed me at the hearing tried to throw me off course but I utterly trashed him. The guards and the parole officials enjoyed my presentation, and the parole officials ruled the right way. The lawyer was no competition after I had the head-butting session with the Moose.
And it didn’t hurt to have help from higher sources, either.
Ask Mary and the saints and angels for help. Ask your deceased loved ones for help if they have lived good lives and presumably are not in Hell. This doesn’t rule out asking God for help, but it supplements your prayers in asking Him.
The Apostle Paul asked for the prayers of fellow Christiana for himself and his mission.
What is light work for God is something more of a lift but still in the skill set of the angels and saints. Ask for the help of these opponents of Lucifer. I have done so many times, and have always been aided … and I am far from the most holy person who will cross your path.
God bless you all, every day, as long as you shall live!
SHERLOCK JUSTICE
WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DETECTIVE.
BONUS: FATIMA AND THE PUBLIC RECORD
One final thought … today is the anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun” – Mary’s proof to the children of Fatima and tens of thousands of pilgrims she was the Mother of God and her messages thru the children to the world were accurate.
On that day, in the hills near Fatima on October 13, 1917, the sun appeared to race to the ground, then reversed course to return to its place in the heavens. It also changed colors bizarrely. The sun’s heat was so intense that the pilgrims, soaked to the skin by an earlier rain storm, experienced having their clothes dry almost instantly.
There are plenty of accounts of the Fatima miracles. I’ll be brief in explaining what is important.
Our Lady had been appearing to three shepherd children … Lucia Santos, 10: Francisco Marto, 9; and his sister Jacinta, 7. Lucia was their cousin.
Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia. Mary appeared to far more poor people than to the well-off.
They told their parents and the local priest. The parents were somewhat skeptical and the priest was too. He took notes on their testimony.
Portugal had recently undergone a military coup. The troops overthrew the king in 1910, after others killed his father, the previous king. Leftist military people and their lackeys ruled Portugal, and they persecuted some of the clergy. They also decided to fight in World War One on the English side, which would cost the families and young women of Portugal many young men in 1918, because their military leaders were incompetent. Kind of like America in 2021.
The local mayor was an atheist leftist. He kidnapped the children and threatened to throw them into a pot of boiling oil. In turn, his henchmen took little Jacinta away, then Francisco, then Lucia. The children would not change their testimony about Mary visiting them and talking to them. They didn’t crack, they said, because they believed if they died as martyrs they would be with God. The mayor eventually let them go.
The Portuguese papers covered the Miracle of the Sun like today’s leftist media would cover a similar event. They had photos of the crowd, and they had condescending comments about the faithful. But they were at least honest enough to report the phenomenon, even though they were friends of the government. Portugal’s archives and repositories have these newspaper articles.
Francisco and Jacinta were dead within three years ….. they died from influenza with great suffering. Lucia became a nun in the 1920s and lived until 2005. She said Mary told her and her cousins that Russia would fall to a satanic ideology and become a world peace-threatening dictatorship, and that other extremely evil men in Europe would start a second world war worse than the first. She said Our Lady told them to tell people to pray and repent and reform to avoid these evils.
The shepherd children told the truth in their own way, and they did not give in when threatened.
How many of us have that kind of fortitude?
People witness the Miracle of the Sun, 10/13/1917, Portugal
I talked to a newspaperman from Portugal in the late 1970s, while I was an Army officer. He was a teen in Portugal in 1917. The man, Jardim Vasco, said he was skeptical because he didn’t believe such an important event would happen to poor children in the countryside. And he said he and many countrymen didn’t think Portugal was important enough a country to host such a message.
Again, Mary’s ways, and those of the angels and saints, let alone those of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are different from our ways. They have made many appearances to poor country people thru the centuries, and hardly any to the rich and powerful.
Mary did not talk to the world leaders after World War One. It would have been a waste of her time speaking to corrupt bigot Woodrow Wilson, or thieving politicians Lloyd George of Britain or Georges Clemenceau of France. She wouldn’t have gotten children of Satan Hitler or Stalin to listen to her either. Instead, she appeared to poor, simple, and good peasant children, and by their actions, and the response of the figures of authority to the message they brought, they spread her word far and wide.
And, thanks to the newspapers of Portugal, the witness statements taken by the local priest and similar efforts by a new bishop, the interviews and reporting of the media of 1917 on the Miracle of the Sun, and the testimony and interviews of Sister Lucia as an adult, there are records concerning the miracle that can’t be denied.
