Chapter XI: THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS, AND HIS SANCTIFICATION. PROPHECIES ON THE LIFE, PASSION AND DEATH OF THE REDEEMER. APOCALYPTIC REVELATIONS,
1. We enter now into
the depths of the Prophecy of Isaias, whose pages breathe an amazing
spirit of doctrine and prophecy, redolent of an all-pervading messianic
perfume,- marked by exceptionally beautiful passages of high mysticism and
poetry, and at the same time by deep and dramatic sentiment.
Multiple contrasts are found in the Book, revealing on the one hand
the prophet's unsettled mission in the obscure and restless currents of
his people's godlessness - which he uncovers, reproves and censures with
the utmost severity; and on the other hand,- what tenderness and
consolation in the Promise of Christ the Saviour Isaias is the `Evangelist'
of the Old Testament, and moreover amongst the foremost of apocalyptic
prophets. In his imposing
figure are united the most varied and marvelous visions, the most sublime
ideas and sentiments, in most eloquent and lofty style.
2. The Prophecy of
Isaias is long and profound, and is not possible to treat exhaustively in
this work. Thus we shall
select the more important and significant passages.
3. The first notable
event we consider is the vision of the Holy Prophet in which he is
confirmed in his vocation, and which he wonderfully describes in Chapter
VI: Isaias in the Temple in Jerusalem is carried away in heavenly ecstasy,
and sees the three-fold majesty of God veiled between two seraphim, each
with six wings. The inside of
the Temple seems filled with a thick cloud of smoke, and at the same time
the prophet senses desolation in his soul,- the fear and knowledge of his
own sins. One of the seraphim
approaches Isaias and touches his lips with a small brilliant object taken
from the altar, which he holds in a tong-like instrument; saying to him
these words: "Behold, this hath touched thy lips: and thy iniquities
shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed" (VI, 7).
The two Seraphim who veil the glory of the August Trinity are the
Divine Souls of Christ and Mary, revealing in this way their unceasing
offering of adoration and praise before the Most High.
Their wings symbolize their bond of union with the Church of the
Old Testament rooted in the twelve tribes of Israel.
The Cloud of smoke is the Soul of Mary.
We interpret and declare that Isaias received Sanctifying Grace in
the very moment that the Seraphim who is the Soul of Christ touched his
lips with the brilliant object, which is the Sacrament of the Triple
Benediction, by means of the tongs -the Soul of Mary.
In the light of this interpretation we declare that the true and
only meaning of the words `small stone' of the Vulgate text, `charcoal' of
the Greek text and `live coal' of the Hebrew text and of the Liturgy, is `Sacrament'
or `Triple Benediction'.
4. The Book of
Eclesiasticus praises the eminent figure
of Isaias in the words: "Holy prophet ... great prophet, and faithful
in the sight of God", and describes too the grandeur of his visions:
"With a great spirit he saw the last things, and comforted the
mourners in Sion. He showed what showed what come to pass for ever, and
secret things before they came" (XLVIII, 23ff).
5. A masterly passage
of Isaias foretells the Incarnation of the Word of God in the Most Pure
Womb of the Virgin Mary, and His glorious nativity: "Therefore the
Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold,
The Virgin shall conceive, and bear a son: and his name shall be called
Emmanuel" (VII, 14), which means, `God with us'.
The Holy Prophet here declares plainly and concisely the human and
divine natures of Christ, as well as the perpetual virginity of Mary.
6. Later he speaks of
the birth of the future Saviour and of His titles of majesty: "For a
CHILD IS BORN to us; and a son is given to us; and the government is upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the
Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of peace" (IX,
6). This verse is truly
amazing for its praise of Christ: He is God, King and Lord of Heaven and
earth because of the hypostatic union.
His name is Wonderful because of the wonders He shall perform as He
carries out the divine plan and counsels.
He will be called Prince of Peace because He will reconcile man
with God by His redeeming Death and will generate the grace for us to
obtain eternal life, thus meriting the name Father of the world to come.
It tells also of Christ's Empire, which is the Church, and of His
eternal kingdom; and also his temporal kingdom as King of Israel, for He
is descendant of David and heir to his throne.
7. Chapter XIX, I
refers to the Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family: "Behold the Lord
will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter Egypt, and the idols of
Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst thereof". The
Cloud is the Virgin Mary who carries the Child Jesus in her arms, most
readily obeying the commands of the Most High.
8. Chapter XI, 1ff
tells of the plenitude of gifts and graces in the Soul of the Messias, and
likewise the outward or bodily robing or manifestation of the hypostatic
union: "And there shall come forth a stem out of the root of Jesse,
and a flower shall rise up out of his root".
This flower, Christ, will be born of the stem, Mary.
And the text adds: "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
Him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel,
and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness, and he shall
be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord".
9. The Prophet Saint
Isaias also foretells the role of Saint John the Baptist.
Precursor of Christ, namely to prepare the way of the Lord in the
heart of a corrupt and apostate nation,
using these words: "The voice of one crying in the de-sert: Prepare
ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the wilder-ness the paths of our
God. Every valley shall be
exalted: and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked
shall become straight, and the rough ways plain".
10. Of great beauty
are the verses relating to the public ministry of the Messias, God's
Annointed, sent to preach the Gospel to the meek, to deliver men from the
bondage of the devil, and to open the gates of Heaven (LVI, 1); He shall
feed His flock like a shepherd, He shall gather the lambs with his arm,
and shall take them up in His bosom ... (XL, 11).
11. The Prophecy of
Isaias impresses itself most upon our mind where, with sublime and
passionate realism, he describes the Passion and Death of the Redeemer.
Such is the emotive power with which Isaias depicts the Sacrifice
of Calvary that he wrings from our heart deep-felt sentiments of sorrow
and compassion.
12. Let us turn to
some of the texts: "I have given my body to the strikers, and my
cheeks to them that plucked my beard: I have not turned away my face from
them that rebuked me, and spit upon me" (L, 6).
"Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows and
acquainted with weakness, and his look was as it were hidden and despised;
whereupon we esteemed him not. Surely
he hath borne our infirmities, and carried our sorrows and we have thought
him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are
healed ... and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his
mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a
lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.
From distress and from judgement he was lifted up on high ...
" (LIII, 3 ff). Here the
most outstanding, humiliating and dolorous features of the Passion and
Death of Christ are described. In
his prophetic visions the Holy Prophet Isaias lived through every minute
of the wicked trial and execution of Jesus.
13. However, in the
course of his Book the Holy Prophet also rejoices as he describes the
triumph of Christ over the devil, sin and death, fruit of the Sacrifice of
Calvary; he speaks of the Birth of the New Church espoused indissolubly
with Christ, of the infinite glory which man would render to God by means
of the Holy Sacrifice of Mass, of the Sanctification of the members of
Christ's Mystical Body, of the Raising of the Banner of our liberation and
Redemption, the Holy Cross; in a word the whole stream of infinite merits
and graces won by the Most Precious Blood of the Lamb that was slain,
which all must drink who desire eternal salvation.
Let us turn to some texts of Isaias' Prophecy: "Because his
soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall
this my just servant justify
many, and he shall bear their iniquities" (LIII, 11).
This verse expresses the doctrine of the abundant fruits born of
the afflictions, torments and sufferings of the Passion of Christ, namely
the justification and sanctification of all those who embrace the doctrine
preached by Jesus Christ. Verse
12 foretells to us the liberation of many peoples and nations from the
bondage of Satan, who then form part of Christ's Empire beneath the
Standard of the Cross: "Therefore I will give him as his portion very
many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath
delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he
hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors"
(LIII, 12). Verse 12 of
Chapter LXII confirms this same doctrine: "And they shall call them:
the Holy People, the redeemed of the Lord.
But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken".
Here we are shown the Church of Jesus Christ, whose members are
called Holy People, for the Lord has raised them to life after being
subject to the power and tyranny of sin, the devil and hell.
All who wish to be saved shall have to seek the Church, enter Her
and make their home within Her; this verse contains as well the doctrine
of the universality of the Church, and of Christ's assistance to Her until
the end of time.
14. The Book of Isaias
also foretells the destruction of Jerusalem, and the chastisement of the
Jews for their blindness and cruelty, questions we mention only in passing,
for we feel the need to concentrate our attention above all on apocalyptic
times.
15. In Isaias the
theme of the Last Times is rich and varied.
The Prophet speaks of the general apostasy of the Last Times and of
a corruption without parallel in all history; while at the same time he
exalts the glory won by the little remnant of the true Church of Christ
overcoming the powerful darkness of this world, for She is beacon of
intense and inextinguishable light, and shall spread her wings to form the
greatest spiritual empire ever known on earth.
16. Isaias tells of a
desert, and of a voice crying ceaselessly therein,- describing in vivid
colour el Palmar de Troya and the entire mission of the man who today is
Gregory XVII: "The voice of one crying in the desert ... Get thee up
upon a high mountain, thou that bringest the good tidings to Sion: lift up
thy voice with strength, thou that bringest the good tidings to Jerusalem:
lift it up; fear not. Say to the cities of Judah: Behold your God: Behold, the Lord
God shall come with strength; and his arm shall rule: behold, his reward
is with him, and his work is before him" (XL, 3, 9, 10). But the voice of the Messenger of the Virgin Mary is not
listened to as we see in the following: "... the Priest and the
Prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness: they are swallowed up with
wine; they have gone astray in drunkenness; they have not known the seer;
they have been ignorant of judgement" (XXVIII, 7).
And adds moreover; "Wherefore I also will choose to mock them;
and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I
called, and there was none that would answer: I have spoken, and
they heard not: and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the
things that displease me" (LXVI, 4).
These three extracts are fulfilled word for word in our day; the
prelates and priests of the official Roman Church, together with their
brood of iniquitous theologians, drunk with pleasure and filled with
progressivist ideas, have sold themselves, and have trodden Catholic
doctrine underfoot, while, morally degraded, they flee from the Cross;
likewise the majority of mystics and seers of recent years have traded
with the messages they received from God, basely betraying their prophetic
mission and selling them-selves to the apostate Church of Rome.
And in the footsteps of all these, the great majority of Catholics
have abandoned their true faith in older to follow tamely behind the two
Antipopes of the Great Harlot or Roman Church, the iniquitous forerunners
of Antichrist. This spiritual catastrophe is also the consequence of the
rejection of the messages of the seer of el Palmar de Troya, today Gregory
XVII, messenger of the Great Precursoress of the Return of Christ, the
Virgin Mary.
17. For the deceit and
decay of the official Roman Church, for her adultery and for her
infidelity to the Divine Spouse Jesus Christ, she is described in these
words: "How is the faithful city, that was full of judgement, become
a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers" (I, 21).
And also these: "... Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all
the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground" (XXI, 9). These words are wholly fulfilled only in these last times, as
we see in the Book of the Apocalypse of Saint John: "Babylon the
great is fallen, is fallen; and is become the habitation of devils, and
the hold of every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and
hateful bird" (XVIII, 2). Isaias
moreover reveals with marked realism the moral and doctrinal decay of the
Roman hierarchy and members: "His watchmen are all blind, they are
all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark; they see vain things, sleeping
and loving dreams. Unashamed
dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves had no understanding:
all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain,
from the first even to the last. Come,
let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it shall be as to-day,
so also tomorrow, and much more" (LVI, 10-12).
Isaias continues: "Let us eat, and drink; for to-morrow we
shall die" (XXII, 13). Referring
more specifically to the Hierarchy of the official apostate Church, he
says: "Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves" (I,
23); and in another chapter continues; "All thy princes are fled
together, and are cruelly bound ... Depart from me; I will weep bitterly:
labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people"
(XXII, 3-4), - which means that, for having wandered far from the true
faith and doctrine, they fell prisoner to the Prince of darkness, and they
became workers of iniquity; therefore the Lord removes their authority
over the flock, and their powers of binding and loosing: "The Lord
hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers" (XIV, 5).
And as summit of shame and derision of the prostituted Church, God
anathematizes the denomination `Roman',
as Isaias foretells: "And I will destroy the name of Babylon"
(XIV, 22). Upon this spiritual ruin thee will follow material ruin, with
the total destruction of Rome.
18. With that clarity
Isaias expresses the fulfillment of Christ's promise that the Church will
never founder with God removing the faithful remnant from the corrupt city
and taking them to the Holy Mount: "Depart, depart, go ye out from
thence; touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
you that carry the vessels of the Lord" (LII, 11).
And this prophecy of Isaias has reached its fulfillment in our day
as the book of the Apocalypse confirms: "Go out from her my people;
that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her
plagues" (Apoc. XVIII, 4). The
Holy Mount of which Isaias speaks is the Mount of Christ the King, which
rises immovable above the desert of el Palmar de Troya, and many from all
parts of the globe come to her fold, as the Holy Prophet plainly describes
in the following verse: "And they shall bring all your brethren out
of all nations for a gift to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and on mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,
saith the Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring an offering in a
clean vessel into the house of the Lord" (LXVI, 20 ).
All of which indicates the variety of persons and nations on
pilgrimage to El Palmar in response to the urgent call of the Lord and the
Virgin Mary, in order to offer themselves to the Church as victim souls
with their penance and prayer, and with their total submission to the true
Vicar of Christ, Gregory XVII. With
what marvelous clarity we see the Holy Mount of el Palmar de Troya in
these texts in Isaias! What
precision and what detail as he refers to the Holy Face that presides
there, and to the adoration which the faithful render to this Face on
their continual visits and pilgrimages!: "And there shall be month
after month, and sabbath after sabbath: and all flesh shall come to adore
before my Face, saith the Lord" (LXVI, 23).
19. From these sheep
who have gathered in the true sheepfold, the Lord has selected certain of
the men on whom He confers the fullness of the priesthood, and thus sets
them up as Shepherds of the flock, as Isaias describes: "And I will
take of them to be Priests, ... saith the Lord" (LXVI, 21).
And referring to the Priests who with courage and decision
abandoned the Great Harlot and thus maintained their communion with the
true Church, Isaias relates: "For thus saith the Lord to the
celibates: Those that ... shall choose the things that please me, and
shall hold fast my covenant: I will give to them in my house, and within
my walls, a place, and... . I will give them an everlasting name, which
shall never perish" (LVI, 4-5). Isaias refers in the word `Covenant'
to the true Sacrifice of the Mass, described more fully in following
verses: "I will bring them into my Holy Mount, and will make them
joyful in my house of prayer; their holocausts and their victims shall
please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer
for all nations" (LVI, 7).
20. Our Lord, for the
greater confusion of the proud, chooses the ignorant and those rejected by
the world as Princes of His Church, and He fills then with knowledge,
wisdom and upright judgement for the most high mission and office of
Shepherds, Watchtowers of the true faith and pillars of His Church.
And this is the precise truth we find in the following extract from
Isaias' Prophecy: "And I will lead the blind into the way which they
know not: and in the path which they were ignorant of, I will make them
walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight:
these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them" (XLII,
16). In the opinion of the
wise and prudent of this world - conceited by shallow knowledge, sowers of
heresy - the poor and humble of heart to whom God has revealed His
mysteries with the Wisdom of the Holy Ghost,- the Shepherds of the
Palmarian Church,- are considered ignorant dupes, worthy of utter contempt,-
while their own blindness and hardness of heart prevents them from seeing
that it is they themselves who are really and truly the fools and the
dupes. This is what the Holy
Prophet Isaias describes in Chapter XXXII in the verses that follow:
"And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge: and the tongue of
stammerers shall speak readily and plain" (V. 4).
How well the prophet evidences here those who are truly wise in the
knowledge of God, considered foolish by he world; while in the remaining
verses 5 & 6 he denounces the really ignorant and foolish of this
world, acquainted with the knowledge that comes from Satan: "The fool
shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called
great: For the fool will speak foolish things: and his heart will work
iniquity to practice hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceit-fully, and to
make empty the soul of the hungry, and to take away drink from the thirsty".
21. In chapter XXIX of
the Book of Isaias, the Lord through the mouth of the Holy Prophet, vents
His indignation against the pharisaical church, the official Roman Church,
in these severe and wounding phrases: "Forasmuch as this people draw
near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart
is far from me, and they have worshipped me with the commandment and
doctrines of men" (XXIX, 13). How
true to life is Isaias' description of the prostitution of Catholic
doctrine, the abolition of the Sacrifice of the Mass and the setting up of
sacrilegious worship hateful in God's eyes!
Therefore the terrible sentence described in verse 14 falls upon
these idolaters: "... for wisdom shall perish from their wise men;
and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid", which
supposes that they become totally blind in spirit, without true fear of
God.
22. The Sacred Person
of His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII is beautifully portrayed in Chapter XLII
of Isaias' Prophecy: the first verse reads: "Behold my servant; I
will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my
spirit upon him; he shall bring forth justice to the nations".
Verses 18, 19 & 20 likewise unmistakably - refer to this great
Pope, in the physical as in
the spiritual: "Hear, ye deaf; and ye blind, behold, that you may see.
Who is blind, but my servant? Who deaf, but he to whom I have sent
my messengers? Who is blind but he that is sold? Or who is blind, but the
servant of the Lord? Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe
them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?" Amazing and
instructive prophecy that, once correctly interpreted, shows us the true
significance in God's eyes of the word `blind' with respect to the
spiritual life; namely one who has corporeal eyes but does not perceive
the things of the spirit, and forasmuch blind of heart.
On the one hand Isaias pres-ents to us Pope Gregory XVII; the blind
servant of God who, though wanting corporeal eyes, is ever wakeful and
vigilant in defence of the rights of God and of His Church, for his soul
is a most powerful beacon of the true Faith and Doctrine; and on the other
hand he shows us the dignitaries of the apostate Roman Church who possess
corporeal eyes, but yet how very blind and darkened are their souls, for
they have sold the light of the true faith for that of Satan.
Therefore Isaias launches ironical attacks upon suchlike apostates,
calling on these deaf and blind of soul to see and to hear, impossible for
them although they have corporeal eyes and ears, because they have been
deaf to God's summons and blind to the signs He has given over thousands
of years by means of His prophets; and in particular in recent years by
means of His Great Prophet, Pope Gregory XVII.
23. Chapter XXXII
describes the sovereignty of this great Pontiff Gregory XVII who as Pope
is by right King of the Uni-verse, and shall in fact govern an immense
territory: "Behold a king shall reign in justice; and princes shall
rule in judgement" (XXXII, 1), which Ch. XLII, verse 11 enlarges with
details of how the Palmarian Church will leave the desert for the conquest
of a great Empire for Christ: "Let the desert arise ..." for the
great Leader of the Tagus, Gregory XVII, with the irresistible strength of
God will engage in holy war in order to extend the Reign of the Sacred
Hearts of Jesus and Mary to the very ends of the earth: "The Lord
shall go forth as a mighty man: as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he
shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies" (XLII,
13), patent expression of how the Lord by means of his `Mighty Man', who
is the Leader of the Tagus, whom He has clothed with exceptional strength,
will rout his enemies and form a great Empire of the Cross and the sword,
ruled by the Great Monarch, Gregory XVII.
The Princes of the first verse above, are the Cardinals of the
Palmarian Church who, besides the government of souls, will be responsible
for the temporal government of the different nations that make up the
Sacred Palmarian-Hispanic Empire under the supreme authority of the Pope
Emperor Gregory XVII.
24. We conclude this
subject-matter with a reference to verses 13 & 14 of Chapter XXXII. In the first Isaias shows the calamitous state of the
official Roman Church long before the Papacy and the death of the great
Pontiff Saint Paul VI, Martyr of the Vatican, on account of the spread of
false doctrines having the
approval of the majority of Bishops assisting at the lamentable
Conciliabulum Vatican II, device of freemasonry to put an end to the
Church; let us examine the text: "Upon the land of my people shall
thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of
the city that rejoiced? (V. 13) For the house is forsaken, the multitude
of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon upon its dens
for ever. A joy of wild asses,
the pastures of flocks" (V. 14). With what precision Isaias predicts in this second verse the
darkness and desolation which now and forever shall reign in the official
Roman Church, whose turrets and strongholds have fallen, leaving only
gloomy caverns, the dens of wild beasts and feeding ground for vermin;
which is the true interpretation of verse 14 above.
25. And in contrast to
so much spiritual havoc the Holy Prophet describes for us the spiritual
beauty of the desert of el Palmar de Troya: far removed from the world,
full of vigorous trees heavy-laden with fruit.
It is the Carmel of which Isaias speaks; the Order of Carmelites of
the Holy Face, the Church Militant; and the Spirit of God, is poured out
over Her: "... and the desert shall be as a Carmel; and Carmel shall
be counted for a forest. And
judgement shall dwell in the desert and justice shall sit in Carmel"
(XXXII, 15-16). How beautifully Isaias sings the glories of El Palmar!
"The Land that was desert and impassable shall be glad: and
the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily.
It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and
praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and
Saron; they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God"
(XXXV, 1-2).
26.
How Isaias rejoices in his heart and in his words, as he describes
the sublime person of Pope Gregory XVII, perfectly summed up in his motto
`de gloria Olivae', prefigured in Eliacim, who was at one and the same
time High Priest, King and Father of his people; we turn to the text of
Isaias: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Elia-cim ... and I all clothe him with thy robe, and will
strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and
he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house
of Juda. And I will lay the
key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none
shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.
And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for
a throne of glory to the house of his father.
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house
..." (XXII, 20-4). With
all clarity appear in these verses the powers that are inherent in the
papacy: the Pope's spiritual power as Supreme Pontiff, his Paternity over
the people of God, and his kingship in temporal affairs, as well as the
stability of his throne, the infallibility of his teachings and the
supreme power of opening and closing Heaven.
The Palmarian Catholic and Aposto-lic Church ruled by the true
Vicar of Christ Gregory XVII is that which the Book of the Apocalypse
describes under the title `Church of Philadelphia' which, for the moral and doctrinal integrity of
her members, was the only one free from reproach (Apoc. III, 7).
And to end this chapter, we refer to the meaning of the name
`Gregory' - `awake and keeping watch', most full realized in Pope Gregory
XVII, as predicted by Isaias: "And a lion cried out: I am upon the
watch-tower of the Lord standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward,
standing whole nights" (XXI, 8).
