Prophecies concerning France

French mystic and stigmatist Marthe Robin thought that France would fall lower than other nations, but that the Blessed Virgin would come to raise her up, which seems logical and natural, since that nation is consecrated to the Mother of God, who will not abandon her no matter how much France denies God and falls from grace. This is what Marthe said to some of her visitors and to her confessor Father Finet on February 10, 1936:

"France will fall low, very low, lower than other nations, because of her pride and the bad leaders she has chosen for herself. She will hit the dust. Then only will she cry out to God, and it is the Blessed Virgin who will come to save her. France will return to her mission as the eldest daughter of the Church and will again send missionaries everywhere in the world."

Many other prophecies or intuitions point to the same future revival. For instance, Pope Saint Pius X said on November 27, 1911:

The people that made a covenant with God when they became Christian in Rheims will repent and return to their first vocation... Faults will not go unpunished, but the daughter of so many merits, of so many sighs and of so many tears will never perish.

A day will come and we hope that it is not far away when France, like Saul on the road to Damascus, will be enveloped in a celestial light and will hear a voice repeating to her:

"My daughter, why do you persecute me?" And as she answers: "Who are you, Lord?" The Voice will reply, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. You find it hard to accept the spurs but in your obstinacy you are ruining yourself." And she, trembling and astonished will say: "Lord, what do you want me to do?" And He will answer: "Rise up, wash away the defilements that have disfigured you, awaken in your soul the dormant feelings and the pact of our covenant, and go, eldest daughter of the Church, predestined nation, vessel of election, go and, as in the past, carry my Name before all the peoples and all the kings of the earth."

And Leo XIII, for his part, said:

"A nation that has Sacred Heart of Montmartre and Lourdes cannot perish: it will become again the glorious nation it once was."