Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 346

The robe of Trier

31st August 1844

,,Lord! Most loving Father! What about your alleged body robe, which is now being shown in the city of Trier for very significant monetary sacrifices and for eternal indulgences? Oh Lord, the matter strikes me as very strange! Is there something in the robe itself? And how did this most sacred relic come to Trier? "

[1] Listen! If also the garment was real, then Christ would not be in the robe! But if, on top of this, the coat belongs to the fifteenth century and was made in Trier itself, when then, as an ostensibly found, extraordinary relic(*1), certain monks brought it from Jerusalem through Rome to Trier with great sacrifice, and so Christ is certainly not at home in it – what will that be? I think it should really be unnecessary to describe this matter in more detail!

[2] What do greedy people do when they want to become rich and thereby powerful, but cannot become it in an real and honest way? See, there they begin to lie, cheat, steal and finally rob and murder!

[3] So it started here with a mighty lie and an even more mighty actual deceit! This will soon be followed by theft, robbery and murder!

[4] They will build Me a magnificent cathedral! But when did I ever ask for it? Is it not only the heart of man in which I dwell, when it is loving and freed from all the world? What is the cathedral good for, and especially since deceit is it’s cornerstone?!

[5] But I say: This cathedral will nevertheless be good for something – namely, a very powerful general stumbling block, and will be a new testimony for those who do not believe history, as Rome once did in the darkest times in My name – I say, worse than once Babel and the Gentiles!

[6] For they had some kind of secret fear of one or the other idol! But those do not have the slightest fear because they have no faith and no trace of love; but they make themselves My masters. I must be what they use Me for, for their big gold and silver bags. My word is forbidden and poor mankind is offered the lowest and most stinking rubbish! What is that?

[7] Behold, the "prodigal son" must now deal with the pigs and must not even enjoy the most miserable meal of grains with them! So the enemy must rise so that he may make the last fall the eternal ruin of his miserable nature!

[8] But you rejoice in this, for this too is the "fig tree" that becomes "juicy", begins to sprout it’s buds and shows that it is now very near the door.

[9] Oh woe to you who lie and deceive without aim or measure! In the near future, mighty "thieves, robbers and murderers" will come over you, will take you like raging animals as their hunted prey and will not even spare the marrow of your bones!

[10] Oh see, not even the worst whore does what they again do! Therefore they should find their own wages!

[11] But now nothing more! But don't talk about it! For it is not praiseworthy for those who have heaven to consult about what hell is! It is enough that you know that the robe is false and thus without Christ for all eternity.

[12] But as now this robe, so is the whole church, which shows it for dear money, like a juggler his arts!

[13] Now you know everything! Hence no more of this "abomination of desolation!" Amen.

Footnotes (*1) The so-called Holy Robe in Trier, allegedly brought to the church of Trier from the Orient by the Empress Helena, was first exhibited in Trier in 1512. Such an exhibition also took place in 1844 and led to the German-Catholic counter- movement founded by Ronge. Supposedly real robes are also kept in Argenteuil, in the Lateran Church in Rome and in other places.