Quomodo vidit statum fratrum Aluastra, et sicut sponse ostensum est, ita euenit.
The Vision of the Doves
The visionary is caught up in prayer and witnesses a clear sky where doves ascend from a house.
While the lady stood praying, caught up in spirit, she saw a certain house, and above that house, a sky that was very clear. And as she watched it closely in wonder, she saw doves rising from the house and entering the sky.
The Three Orders of Brothers
The vision reveals three distinct spiritual states among the brothers, despite the opposition of the Ethiopians.
The Ethiopians tried to stop them, but they couldn't. Beneath the house, however, a chaos was visible, in which there are three orders of brothers. The first are simple, like doves. That’s why they ascend so easily, and I’ll tell you their names. The second are those who come to purgatory. The third group consists of those who already have one foot in the sea and the other on the deck of the ship. Their judgment is drawing near. So that you may know and test this, they will pass on one after another, just as I am revealing their names to you.
The Fulfillment of the Prophecy
The prophetic vision is confirmed by the subsequent death of thirty-three brothers during a plague.
And it happened exactly the same way. For a plague came and took thirty-three brothers, just as had been predicted.1
Read the original Latin
Cum domina staret orando rapta in spiritu, vidit domum quandam et super domum celum valde serenum. Cumque diligenter inspiciendo miraretur, vidit de domo columbas ascendentes et penetrare celum.
Quas Ethiopes conabantur impedire sed non valebant. Subtus vero domum videbatur chaos, in quo sunt tres ordines fratrum.
"Primi sunt simplices quasi columbe. Ideo faciliter ascendunt, quorum tibi nomina indicabo. Secundi sunt, qui veniunt ad purgatorium.
Tercii sunt, qui iam alium pedem habent in mari et alium in tabulatu nauis. Quorum iudicium nunc appropinquat. Et vt scias et probes, vnus post alium cicius transibit, secundum quod nomina eorum exprimo tibi."
Quod similiter contigit. Venit enim mortalitas et tulit, sicut predictum est, XXXIII fratres.
Notes
- 1 ↩The term 'mortalitas' in this context refers to a pestilence or epidemic.
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