The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

January 12, 1916

Current and future chastisements of the nations; in particular of Italy.

I was lamenting with blessed Jesus because of His usual privations, and I was crying bitterly. My adorable Jesus came, but in a sorrowful state, showing how things will get worse and worse. This made me cry more, and Jesus told me: "My daughter, you cry for the present times, and I cry for the future. Oh, in what a maze will the nations find themselves, to the extent of one becoming the terror and the massacre of the other, and of being unable to get out by themselves! They will do things as though crazy and blind, to the point of acting against themselves... And the maze which poor Italy is in! How many shocks she will receive! Remember how many years ago I told you that she deserved the chastisement of being invaded by foreign nations. And this is the conspiracy that they are weaving for her. How humiliated and annihilated she will remain! Too ungrateful has she been with Me.

The nations for which I had predilection, Italy and France, are those which denied Me the most; they held hands in offending me. Fair chastisement: they will hold hands in being humiliated. And they will also be the ones who will start war against the Church... Ah, my daughter, almost all nations united to offend Me; they plotted against Me. What wrong did I do them? Almost all of them deserve chastisement."

But who can say the sorrow of Jesus, the state of violence in which He was, and also my fright? Out of fear, I said to my Jesus: ‘How can I live in the midst of so many tragedies? Let me be the victim; save the people, or take me with You!’