Editorial by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

Italy is a peninsula, but rarely are we told that it is a volcanic peninsula, formed by the outpourings of lava and ash long before the Lord Jesus created Adam and Eve. In recent years, all Italians can remember the horrific earthquake of August 24, 2016, when the plate of the Tyrrenian Sea moved abruptly under that of the Adriatic, at 3:34 A. M., causing massive and widespread devastation inland from the City of Rome:

In August of 2016, I was in Italy, finishing up my work at The Scholasticum, while staying as a guest with the Conventual Franciscan Friars at their Convent at St. Francis’ Monastery, at Bagnoregio. As my work had finished, I prayed to the Lord to know His will. I wanted to found a hermitage in the Apennine Mountains, very near to the epicenter of the Earthquake, which would strike Italy in three weeks time.

But while praying, I got a bad feeling that the Lord did not want me to go, and wanted me rather to return to the U.S.A. to found Ordo Militaris Catholicus. So I got a plane ticket as soon as possible, and left on August 23, the day before.

The next day I woke up to news of the devastation, and thanked the Lord that He had the mercy to warn me.

Since then many facts have come to public knowledge regarding the tremendous movement of the Earth’s plates which caused that devastation. One of them was that a crack in the Earth’s upper crust several inches wide and dozens of miles long, had opened up beneath the City of Rome, and was filled with water from the Tyrrenian Sea, all the way inland. The other was, that the experts were predicting another great earthquake to strike the city of Rome within 20 years, since as they said, the Italian peninsula was under too much strain, mid-peninsula, and something had to give to let that tension out.

I mention all of this, because back in 2020, when I was in lockdown at Rome, during the Plandemic, we were all rudely awaken in the early morning by a minor earthquake. It caused the door of my 1 room apartment to batter, as if someone was trying to break it.

Back then, I reported the event in the article above, which you can read still by clicking that image, “Powerful Earthquake Felt at Rome”.

But then, the date May 11th, did not mean anything to me.

However, this year of Our Lord 2025, that date takes on significance. Because according to the Papal Law on Conclaves, seeing that Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025, the latest day on which the Conclave could begin would have been May 11th. Cardinal Electors arriving after that could not vote.

So the May 11, 2020 earthquake, was in reality a warning to the College of Cardinals, that the Church is in the Hands of God, and He can crush them in a second, with His mighty Hand, since He rules all things. And when Our Lord, at His Ascension, affirmed, “All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given to Me,” we must understand that this also refers to Earthquakes.

And this is not mere speculation on my part, because in one of the mystical dreams of Saint John Bosco, he saw the holy and saintly pope to restore the Church returning on a day after Rome is destroyed by an earthquake, with thousands of dead lining the streets. That sort of implies that the Lord will visit Rome with a great punishment during a conclave. And that the man elected will be outside of the City, when that Visitation of the Divine Wrath breaks out.

I am not saying that the Lord will send an Earthquake in our days. But He alone knows. Here is the seismological observatory for earthquakes in Central Italy, for this week:

Meanwhile, I have been traveling to Rome every day to pray for the Cardinals to chose the right man, but this morning, I asked the Lord if He wants me to continue, and upon waking I found myself so dizzy, that I believe the Lord wants me to stop visiting the City, for some reason. So I wonder, why, since I have rarely experienced this kind of dizziness, which has to do with some imbalance of fluids in the inner ear, such that, when I stand up, the whole world seems to be swaying this way and that.

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