Seven Ages of the Church
Partial1646 AD — Bingen
Divided all church history into seven “ages.” The fifth age “affliction, desolation, humiliation… heresies, apostasy” ends with the rise of the Holy Pope and Great Monarch, inaugurating the sixth age “Age of Consolation”/Peace, a glorious period for the Church. After the sixth, comes the age of Antichrist and the Last Judgment.
More from Ven Bartholomew Holzhauser (4)
Description of Coming Chastisement, Burning of Rome
Predicted in the “fifth age” disaster: apostasy, moral collapse, civil/religious decline; “heretics and tyrants” invade, Rome is attacked...
Restoration—Great Monarch, Angelic Pontiff, and Peace
Prophesied a “valiant Monarch anointed by God” descendant of Louis IX and German imperial family, born in exile will destroy heresies,...
Sixth Age: Consolation, Abundance, Binding of Satan
After tribulation, “Sixth Age” described as era of Catholic renewal—sciences, arts, and spiritual life flourish, Holy Scripture unanimously...
Khosrov — The Persian King as Precursor of the Antichrist
Ven. Holzhauser described a powerful leader from the East, identifying him with the Persian King Khosrov (Chosroes), who would serve as a...