Most Catholics know the short prayer to Saint Michael.
Few know why it was written.

Pope Leo XIII didn’t just hear Satan boast, he saw a terrifying vision of the future: the Church besieged, a century of darkness & a final battle

What did Pope Leo really see? - a🧵✝️
October 13, 1884. Pope Leo XIII had just finished Mass in the Vatican chapel.

Suddenly, he stopped at the foot of the altar, frozen in a trance, face pale.

Witnesses say he stood still for 10 minutes, eyes fixed, lips moving as if in dialogue.

Then he rushed to write something down

Fatima, 1917, 70.000 people watched the sun dance in the sky.

They came soaked in rain.
They left stunned and dry.

The Miracle of the Sun wasn’t just seen at Fatima.
It was seen for miles.

This was no hallucination.
It was heaven invading the earth - a 🧵✝️🇵🇹
The date was October 13, 1917.

For months, three shepherd children claimed the Virgin Mary was appearing to them in Fatima, Portugal.

Most laughed.
The Church hesitated.
The press mocked.

But Our Lady promised a miracle. At high noon.

In 1519, a handful of Christians landed on the shores of Mexico.

At the front marched Hernán Cortés. And behind, the ships were burned.

There was no turning back. It was all or nothing.

The Conquest of the Aztec Empire – a🧵✝️
The Aztec Empire was vast, brutal, and feared. At its heart stood Tenochtitlán, a shining city built on a lake, home to towering pyramids and blood-drenched altars.

Every year, tens of thousands were sacrificed to appease the "gods", their hearts torn out while still beating.

Today is the Feast Day of St. Peter

And If you think this cross is Satanic, you know nothing about Christianity.

The upside-down cross is the sign of one of the greatest saints in history.

The truth about the Cross of St. Peter - a 🧵
Saint Peter wasn’t just one of the Twelve, he was the first. Jesus gave him the keys:
“You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church.” - Matthew 16,18

But Peter was not a perfect man, he denied Christ three times.

And it was precisely through this fall that he became a vessel of mercy.

Today is the Feast of Saint Peter & Saint Paul

One a fisherman.
One a scholar.

One crucified upside down.
One beheaded like a Roman citizen.

Together, they conquered an Empire.

The Glorious Story & Death of the Two Blessed Apostles Peter & Paul - a 🧵✝️
Peter and Paul: opposites in temperament, background, and mission. Yet united in blood and glory.

The Prince of the Apostles and the Apostle to the People. Galilean and Roman. Rock and Sword. Keys and Scroll.

The pillars upon which Christ built His Kingdom.

The monk who BATTLED SATAN during a 23-day EXORCISM

In the early 1900s, a Capuchin priest named Fr. Theophilus Riesinger was contacted by a desperate woman named Emma.

What happened next would become one of the most terrifying spiritual battles ever recorded - a 🧵✝️
Emma had suffered since the age of 14.

Every attempt to pray, attend Mass, or receive the Eucharist filled her with dread and confusion.

Something was horribly wrong.
As time passed, the spiritual oppression intensified.

She recoiled from holy objects, heard blasphemous voices, and showed unnatural knowledge of secret things.

Emma was under attack.

If you think the Inquisition was just cruel torture, you have no idea what it was.

You’ve heard the stories.
Dungeons. Chains. Burning at the stake.
"A reign of terror"

But the truth?
It’s not what Hollywood told you.

This is the truth about the Inquisition - a 🧵✝️
First, there wasn’t just one Inquisition. There were several:
>The Medieval Inquisition (13th century)
>The Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834)
>The Roman Inquisition (1542+)

Each had different goals, methods, and levels of severity.

But none were what the myths suggest.

Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven should’ve been a disaster for Christians

Secular. Revisionist. Anti-crusade. And yet...

In the cracks, something shines through
A yearning for God, redemption, and the true Jerusalem.

This is the theology Hollywood didn’t mean to show - a 🧵✝️ Balian is a blacksmith haunted by the suicide of his wife.

Baron Godfrey of Ibelin, Balian’s estranged father, finds him and offers him a new life. He initially refuses

When his brother desecrates her burial, Balian kills him in fury, and flees.

He rides toward Jerusalem.

Not for war. For forgiveness.

Christians are not persecuted?

Over 70 million Christians have been martyred over the last two millennia.
Men, women, and children who chose death over denying Christ.

This is the story of Christian persecution - a 🧵✝️

Today, leaders hide behind desks, bureaucracy and speeches.

But there was a time when kings, saints & generals fought and bled alongside their men.

They led not by words, but by example.

Here are 8 great leaders who fought on the front lines - a🧵✝️
Alexander the Great

King of Macedonia. He never sent his men anywhere he wouldn't go himself.

At the Battle of the Granicus, he fought in the vanguard and was wounded in the head with a sword. In India, he took arrows to the chest and nearly died.

He never lost a single battle.

The Holy Shroud of Turin is real. Jesus Christ IS God.

And our Lord and Saviour looked exactly as ancient christians depicted Him

The year was 1139, and the Iberian sun burned over a land at war. Portugal, a small Kingdom, stood in defiance of Islamic Rule

Their leader? D. Afonso Henriques a man determined to achieve the impossible

This is the tale of the Birth of Portugal & the battle of Ourique - a🧵✝️
On the eve of the fateful battle, Dom Afonso knelt alone in his tent, his sword planted in the earth before him. He had led his men deep into enemy territory, outnumbered five to one. His heart was strong, but even the mightiest of kings seek guidance before the storm of war.

The year was 1177, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem stood on the edge of annihilation.

The great Sultan Saladin swepted across the land with an army of nearly 26,000 men

Outnumbered 20 to 1 Baldwin the young leper King stood in defiance.

The battle for the Holy Land - a 🧵✝️
With what many believed to be the end of campaign season, many of Baldwin’s barons had already ridden north.

But when word reached Jerusalem of Saladin’s approach, Baldwin, the young leper King, did not hesitate. War was once again upon them and they were to fight, or die.

Catholicism in Japan - a🧵 🇯🇵✝️

Across 3,500 km, a straight line connects 7 ancient sanctuaries, all dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel

From the West to the Holy Land, all perfectly aligned.
A coincidence? Or a path traced by Heaven?

The Line of Saint Michael - a🧵✝️
The first point is Skellig Michael island, in Ireland.
Medieval monks arrived here in the 7th century and built a church dedicated to Saint Michael around 950 A.D.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, revolutionary mobs stormed churches & persecuted the faithful.

One of the first things they did?
They opened fire on a statue of Jesus Christ.

Why? Because it was a war against God.

The Spanish Civil War & Christ's Victory - a 🧵🇪🇸
The Spanish Civil War wasn’t just politics.
It was a war against God.

The Republican side, dominated by communists and anarchists, launched one of the bloodiest persecutions of Christians in modern history.

Churches were burned, altars desecrated & priests tortured and killed.

In 1627, Cardinal Richelieu, stood at the front lines of war.

A Protestant stronghold defied crown and altar.
The Church was in peril.

He wasn’t carrying a sword, but he did build a seawall across the sea.

The Siege of La Rochelle - a 🧵✝️ La Rochelle wasn’t just any city.

It was France’s most powerful Protestant stronghold, wealthy, defiant, and allied with England.

Richelieu saw it as a threat to both monarchy and Church.

To save the kingdom from fracture, he believed one faith, one king was essential.

So he acted.

Why should you believe in God?
Because the alternative is madness.
The greatest minds agreed on this.

If there is no God, then there is no truth, no right or wrong, no meaning.

But if there is, everything makes sense.

Why God is, logically, real - a🧵✝️
Human beings long for the divine and the sacred.

>You long for justice.
>You long for beauty.
>You long for truth.
>You long for love.

These things don’t evolve from slime.

They are eternal, and they point beyond the material world.

They point to God.

The Bible isn’t just a story, and Cambridge University is proving exactly that.

3,224 years ago, Joshua commanded the sun to stand still.
Now astronomers say it really happened.

The day Joshua paused the sky - a 🧵✝️
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon. And moon, over the Valley of Ayalon.” - Joshua 10,12

For centuries, scholars dismissed this verse as poetic metaphor. But what if it described a real, historical event?

Is there proof of Jesus outside the Bible? Yes.
History confirms Him

His name echoes through Roman and Jewish records.
Even those who opposed Him couldn’t ignore Him.

Here’s how history itself remembers Jesus of Nazareth, the Living God - a🧵✝️

If the tale of Saint Christopher doesn't make you want to hit the gym I don't know what will.

He was a warrior who served kings, then the devil himself.

But when he met Christ, everything changed.

This is the story of Saint Christopher, the Christ-bearer - 🧵✝️ They say his name was Reprobus.
He was said to be a Canaanite, a giant in both stature and strength.

So powerful, he vowed to serve only the greatest king on earth. But that quest would take him to the edge of hell, and back.