Dionysius of Luxembourg (d. 1682)

a. "After the birth of Antichrist the people of the world will be very wicked and Godless. People cf real virtue will be very scarce. Pastors in many places will neglect the ser- vice of God, and will live with women. Even the religious will crave for worldly things. The churches will be dreary and empty like deserted barns ... at the time when Antichrist is about twenty years of age the whole world will be without faith, subjects will be oppressed by rulers and others in authority. In every period of tribulation God aids His Church, and He will do it in the time before the coming of Antichrist. From the midst of His Church He will raise up a Christian ruler who will perform most remarkable deeds. With divine assistance, this ruler will not only lead erring souls back to the true faith but also deal a heavy blow to the fees of the empire, the Turks, take away their empire and restore it to Christianity.

b. "The conception of Antichrist will be like Christ's except it will be by the devil* instead cf the Holy Ghost. He will have the devil's power like Christ had God's.

c. "Antichrist will present himself to the Jews as the Messiah. They will be his first followers. (2 Thess. 2: 9)

d. "Antichrist will have the powers of the devil from the beginning. He will be so evil it would seem his father was the devil. He will inherit his evil tendencies from his mother, who will also train him in evil.

e. "His wife will be a Jewess but he will have many women, especially the daughters of rulers. (Dan. 11: 27)

f . "Antichrist's life will be a mockery of Christ's. He will be a convincing speaker, have great knowledge, the gift of tongues (Apoc. 13: 5) and be a child wonder at six or seven.

g. "He will take the riches of the world to Jerusalem and appear to have power over natural laws.

h. "Antichrist will be an iconoclast (even against pagan images) . Most of the world will adore him. He will teach that the Christian religion is false, change the ten commandments, confiscation of Christian property is legal, and that Saturday is to be observed instead of Sunday. All his wonders could not be written in a bock. They will be more wonderful than the Old and New Testaments. All with the mark of Antichrist will be possessed by the devil. There will be

This is denied by St. Thomas and others.

persecution without rest for those who do not have the mark. He will read peoples' minds, raise the dead*, reward his followers and punish the rest."

i. "Elias will cause the rain, dew and snow to cease in those countries where the inhabitants oppose the two prophets and refuse to reject Antichrist. The first land to be so punished will be Palestine in order to win over the Jews.

"After Elias finds the 'Ark of the Covenant' of the Jews (hidden until the recall of the Jews to God), he and Henoch will place the Blessed Sacrament upon it. The Jews will then realize that Jesus Christ and not Antichrist is the true Messiah. They will desert Antichrist and make a pilgrimage to Mount Nebo (where the Ark is found) bewailing the hardheartedness of the ancestors. Thereafter they will accept the Christian faith."

j. "The Antichrist will kill Henoch and Elias and leave them unburied. These will, however, be resurrected after three and one-half days and ascend into heaven in a cloud in the presence of their enemy. This miraculous event will actually confuse Antichrist. In order that the nations will not abandon him, he will lift himself with great majesty into space on Mt. Olivet, with the purported intention to cast down the prophets who have ascended into heaven. But, in this moment Christ will strike him down. The earth will open and swallow him and his prophets alive. Then a large part of Jerusalem will fall into ruins from the earthquake."

k. "When Antichrist hears that the two prophets have miraculously ascended into heaven he will proclaim in Jerusalem that it was through witchcraft that they were able to ascend into heaven, but that he will follow and bring them back, to prove that, being God, their sorcery is subject to him. His ministers will assemble a vast crowd on Mt. Olivet, Antichrist will talk to the people and then, with the aid of Satan, he will ascend, like an Eagle, heavenwards." 323. Other prophesies from these years are numbers 131 (Rudolph Kekner), 136 (The Monk of Padua), 139 (Capuchin Friar).

This is denied by St. Thomas and others.