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exhaust His wrath upon them, and no one will
be able to escape so many afflictions together.

The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil
has bedimmed their intelligence. They have become
 wandering stars which the old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. God
will allow the old serpent to cause divisions among those who reign in every society and in every
family. Physical and moral agonies will be suffered. God will abandon mankind to itself and will
send punishments which will follow one after the other for more than thirtyfive years.
The Society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of gravest events. Mankind must
expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God.

May the curate of my Son, Pope Pius IX never leave Rome again after 1859; may he, however, be
steadfast and noble, may he fight with the weapons of faith and love. I will be at his side. May he
be on his guard against Napoleon: he is two faced, and when he wishes to make himself Pope
as well as Emperor, God will soon
draw back from him. He is the master mind who, always wanting to ascend further, will fall on the
sword he wished to use to force his people to be raised up.

Italy will be punished for her ambition in