The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich Volume 2 by Very Rev. K. E. Schmoger

Author:Very Rev. K. E. Schmoger [Schmoger, Very Rev. K. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781618902665
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2013-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

27. PRAYER FOR GREECE

July 31, 1821—“All last night I worked at a singular task, praying for innocent Christians who endure such misery in Turkey, and I had to repel the attacks of the Turks. I invoked St. Ignatius Loyola, who gave me his staff and taught me how to use it. I hovered above a city situated tolerably high on a bay toward the west. Numberless ships lay before the city, like a forest of masts, and many of the citizens took refuge in them. I saw in vision the holy martyr, St. Ignatius of Antioch brought there in chains on his way to Rome and receiving the visits of other Bishops. The city was surrounded by Turks trying to enter it, sometimes at one point, sometimes at another, by the gardens or by breaches in the wall. All was confusion. I hovered in the air as if I were flying and, when I rose a little, I did indeed fly. I gathered my robe around my feet and, holding Ignatius’ staff in my hand, I flew to meet the assailants. I repulsed them at every encounter, the bullets whizzing around me. Troops of white-robed figures accompanied me, but they often remained behind and let me go on alone. I was at times very much afraid of getting entangled in the high trees which bore great, broad leaves and black fruit shaped like grapes. I often thought: ‘It is well that my folks cannot see me now flying in this way! They would certainly think me a witch.’ While I fought now here, now there, I saw multitudes hastily leaving the city, bag and baggage, and fleeing to the ships. These vessels were surrounded by galleries from which little bridges reached to the shore; they were full of citizens. All night did I thus labor. I saw the Greeks also, and they appeared even more savage and cruel than the Turks. In a vast field, far away to the north, I beheld numerous troops marching to the rescue of the city, and I felt that if they arrived things would go still worse. Then I had a picture in which it was shown me how widely the Greeks are separated from the Church. I saw it as a running river, and the sight pained me greatly. The Turks when thus invading a country, look not like regular soldiers; they were no uniform, they go half-naked in all sorts of rags.”

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