Abbess Maria Steiner (d. 1862)

"I see the L,ord as he will be scourging the world, and chastising it in a fearful manner so that few men and women will remain. The monks will have to leave their monasteries, and the nuns will be driven from their convents, especially in Italy.... The Holy Church will be persecuted.... Unless people obtain pardon through their prayers, the time will come when they will see the sword and death, and Rome will be without a shepherd."

"The Lord showed me how beautiful the world will be after the awful chastisement. The people will be like the Christians of the primitive Church."