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Understanding Church Ages

Holzhauser's Prophecies and the Seven Church Ages

Venerable Father Bartholomew Holzhauser was born in Laguna, Germany in 1613. He experienced visions through the Holy Spirit, that explain seven Church ages, particularly explaining the fifth Church age of affliction, desolation, humiliation, and poverty that we now live in. He also had visions of the sixth Church age of Peace that few Catholics have heard about, but Mary, Mother of Jesus who appeared at Fatima and Medjugorje asserts a future time of Peace.

Seven Church Ages
Summary1

We live in the 5th Church age

The Seven Church ages correlate in chronological order with the Seven Churches revealed in Chapters 2 and 3 in Revelation. The seven Churches reflect a variety of meanings and understandings for the Church. Venerable Holzhauser reveals each of the seven Church ages consists of a period of time. Each Church age or period varies in length of time as Church history unfolds to its completion. Understanding the Seven Church ages revealing timeframes is imperative to understand the sequence of unfolding prophecies revealed to the Catholic Church. This information is based largely on Venerable Holzhauser's visions, but many other prophecies from other saints confirm the events that are unfolding in the fifth and sixth Church ages.

Rev. Herman Bernard Kramer who wrote, "The Book of Destiny" on Revelation, concurs with this same chronological unfolding of the seven Churches.

Understanding Church Ages
AGE DESCRIPTION YEARS
First Church Age Christ and the Apostles to Pope Linus and Emperor Nero
Church of Ephesus		 4 BC – 79 AD
Second Church Age The Days of Persecution
Church age of Smyrna		 79 – 314
Third Church Age Pope Sylvester to Pope Leo III
Church of Pergamum		 314 – 795
Fourth Church Age Pope Leo III to Leo X
Church of Thyatira		 795 – 1520
Fifth Church Age Pope Leo X to a Strong Ruler and a Holy Pope
This is the present Church age of Sardis coming to a close.		 1520 – 2038
Mary reveals 10 Secrets (events) to unfold, early 2024 – 2038
that Includes: First 2 are admonitions and are good events from God early 2024
And the 3rd admonition is a good event from God 2024
Next 5 are punishments and are a recoil of our sins upon us 2024 – 2038
Last 2 are chastisements directly from God 2030s – 2038
  • The Great Catholic Monarch (strong ruler) rises up taking back Europe in the late 2030s.
  • The Holy Pope with a sign of redemption on his forehead will reign in 2038 and afterwards.
  • St. Bridget exclaims: " the world will cry, Woe " in the year 2038.
Sixth Church Age A Strong Ruler and a Holy Pope to the birth of Antichrist
This is the future Church age of Philadelphia
After the 10 secrets (events), Mary claims a "certain period of peace" on the earth.
It will be the Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Holzhauser says – All Nations will be united in the Catholic Faith
  • Under the protection of the great Monarch and his Successors
  • He will submit everything to his authority,
  • He will show great zeal for the true Church.
  • The Monarch will break the empire of the Mohammedans
 2038 – 2383?
Seventh Church Age Birth of Antichrist to end of the world
This is the last Church age of Laodicea
Antichrist
The Two Witnesses, Elijah, and Enoch will be sent back to earth
The Coming of Christ on the clouds
Completion of the Gentile Bride Church
A time for the Jewish People in the last Church Age
Last Church age is 1000 years or longer
Final coming of Christ
2383? – 3483?

The Fifth Church Age started in 1520 and will end in 2038

"The fifth (Church age) period is one of affliction, desolation, humiliation, and poverty for the (Catholic) Church. Jesus Christ will purify His people through cruel wars, famines, plagues, epidemics, and other horrible calamities. He will also afflict the Latin Church with many heresies. It is a period of defections, calamities, and exterminations. Those Christians who survive the sword, plague, and famines will be few on earth. Nations will fight against nations and will be decimated by internecine (characterized by great slaughter) dissensions. Are we not to fear during this period that the Mohammedans will come again, working out their sinister schemes against the Latin Church?" 2 "During the fifth period, we see only calamities and devastation, oppression of Catholics by tyrants and heretics, executions of kings, and conspiracies to set up republics" 3 "A great lament will come over all mankind and only a small batch will survive the storm, the pestilence, and horror." 4

At the end of this fifth Church age, humanity will have no choice
but to go back to living directly off the land.


A remnant of people will be left on the earth at that time,
mostly from the Catholic Faith.

The Sixth Church Age will start in 2038; ending in about 345 years

Of the sixth Church age: "The Powerful Monarch, who will be sent by God, will uproot every republic. He will submit everything to his authority and show great zeal for the true Church of Christ. The empire of the Mohammedans will be broken up, and this Monarch will reign in the East as well as in the West. All nations will come to worship God in the true Catholic and Roman faith. There will be many Saints and Doctors of the Church on earth. Peace will reign over the whole earth because God will bind Satan for several years until the days of the Son of Perdition. No one will be able to pervert the word of God since, during the sixth period, there will be an Ecumenical council which will be the greatest of all councils. By the grace of God, the power of the Great Monarch, the authority of the Holy pontiff, and the union of all the most devout princes, atheism, and every heresy will be banished from the earth. The Council will define the true sense of Holy Scripture, and this will be believed and accepted by everyone." 5 "The Great Monarch of the world will create new laws for the new mankind and will cause a new age to begin, in which there will be only one flock and one Shepherd, and peace will be of long, long duration, for the glory of God in heaven and earth..."6

Please Note: " the Son of Perdition" is the Antichrist who will come after the sixth Church age of peace, not before this age of peace. The early Church Fathers make this clear in their prophecies. There are errors out there of evangelicals and some misled Catholics believing that the Son of Perdition or Antichrist that St. Paul speaks about is coming at this time. In saying this, it does not mean that the spirit of antichrist is not strong in the world. There will be and are antichrists rising at this time.

The sixth Church age is a time of a genuine 'Period of Peace' that Mary, Mother of Jesus speaks about at Fatima and Medjugorje. The Early Church Fathers, Doctors of the Church, Venerable Holzhauser, and other saints have signified this age of Peace.

The Seventh Church age will be the era of peace for the Jewish People. This last Church age will be 1000 years or longer. This Church age is not the 1000 years with Jesus Christ reigning on the earth as Evangelicals and other Christians believe.


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  1. Bartholomew Holzhauser - Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 7, 1910 - www.newadvent.org/cathen/07439b.htm
  2. "Interpretatio Apocalypsis" from Bartholomew Holzhauser 1850 p 69/Trial, Tribulation and Triumph by Desmond Birch p 331,332
  3. "Interpretatio Apocalypsis" from Bartholomew Holzhauser 1850, p 68/ Trial, Tribulation and Triumph by Desmond Birch p 337
  1. Venerable Bartholomew Holzhauser Visions 1646/ www.catholicrevelations.org
  2. Catholic Prophecy, p 40
  3. Bartholomew Holzhauser Visions 1646/http://www.catholicrevelations.org/PR/ven%20bartholomew%20holzhauser.htm