"a Lamb stood on the Mt Zion, and with him an 144,000" Rev. 14:1

Type: a quote Sub-type: an opinion/view Relevance: prophecy Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37...  speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church. [...] Now, when the vast multitude of the clergy, secular and regular, of all degrees, were prohibited from marriage, that preservative allowed them by that infinite Wisdom who created them, and that all classes of people must come to these private confessions , and so frequently too, and open up their ( even indecent ) secrets , as above: and when the well-fed pastor is celibate , and when he can lay on penance , and when he can loose and absolve from the guilt confessed , what on earth, I ask,—I appeal to every breast—can be conceived more calculated to produce general pollution, and fill the world with fornications and adulteries on every hand? [...] Ouseley, Gideon, Old Christianity Against Papal Novelties , 1st American, fr. th...

Type: a quote Sub-type: a historic event (1849) Relevance: prophecy Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37...  speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church. [...] Let them remember that in the year 1848, when a Republican Government was established in France—which was the signal of a general revolutionary movement throughout Europe—and the present Pope (Pius the 9th, 1846 to 1878) was forced to escape in the disguise of a menial, while a National Government granted, for the first time in Rome, religious toleration, one of the first orders of the Roman republic was that the nuns should be liberated, and the convents searched. Giuseppe Garibaldi, in 1849, then recently arrived in Rome, visited in person every convent, and was present during the whole of the investigations. In all, without an exception, he found instruments of cruelty; and in all, without an exception, were vaults, plainl...

Type: a quote Sub-type: a historic event (c. 1859 & 1864) Relevance: prophecy Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37...  speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church.   Last summer the wife of a rich merchant was taken by her confessor to the Convent della Suore Grigè; for, be it remembered, the convent is never far from the confessional-box, the two being in fact twin institutions—halves of a great whole. The husband traced his wife to her refugio , and brought an action at law against the priest. The priest defended himself on the ground that his penitent had fled to the convent of her own accord, moved by the pious desire of enjoying less interruptedly the benefit of his spiritual instructions. The court, instead of gratifying the parties in their devout wishes, found them guilty of a flagrant breach of that commandment which is the sixth in order in Roman catechisms, but in Pr...

Type: a quote Sub-type: a historic event (c. 1781) Relevance: prophecy Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37...  speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church. [...] It will be sufficient to give here the letter written from Rome the 25th October, 1781, by the Advocate Zanobetti to Bishop Ricci: the autograph is in the archives of the family of the latter.   The advocate hopes, that it will end with the general adoption of withdrawing the nuns from the spiritual direction of the monks, “especially in those states, where some years ago it was necessary to raze from the foundations one of men belonging to the barefooted Carmelites, the other of women of the same order, which were joined, and in which, by means of subterranean passages, they led the ordinary life of men and women.” Zanobetti had been five years employed in the office of assessor of the Inquisition, and he knew, he says,...

Type: a quote Sub-type: a historic event (c. AD 1564) Relevance: prophecy Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37...  speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church. [...] John Stock , Notary of the Apostolick Rota , relates, in a Letter written at Rome , October 8, 1564. to J. Hensberg , a Divine of Cologn , a remarkable Instance of this. These Wretches of ours are not so holy as they appear. They walk in the Likeness of Sheep, but within are ravening Wolves, and their pretended Sanctity is a double Iniquity. They are under the Influence of a strong Ambition. The Venetians ordered one of them to be burnt alive, by Command of the Pope. He had been Father Confessor to some Nuns in the Dominions of Venice , and had got twelve of them with Child, amongst whom the Abbess and two others had Children in one Year. As he was confessing them, he agreed with them about the Place, Manner, and Tim...