I am really interested in how God uses dates. I love how things coincide within the Holy Face devotion, I find it amazing. Such as the publication of Marx’s Communist Manifesto and the public miracle on the veil of Saint Veronica in 1849. Also, how May 13th is so significant, for example, Fatima and the traditional day of the public display of the Veil of Veronica.
Today, I was thinking about the Shroud and the photographer who developed the photograph in 1898. I was thinking about why Jesus revealed His very own image to us. I thought to myself, I bet there is a hidden reason why He chose His image to be revealed at this particular time, in this particular year. I started researching and discovered that in 1898, the year Jesus revealed Himself in the Shroud is the same year the Russian Communist Party formed, (although originally they were called the Social Democratic Labour Party).So, 1898 was the year the gears were set in motion to foment the Russian Communist Revolution.
I got this down to an 8 week period from the photo being taken to the party being formed. I bet I would find much stronger correlations with dates if I dug deeper. It’s also the year of the Spanish-American war, and some believe this directly led to a political situation in Cuba that was conducive to the country being set up as a Communist State.
What is interesting is that Communism is all about the cult of the face. I recall watching a documentary many years ago, it described how communists use what they referred to as “the cult of the face”, meaning the constant bombardment of images of the dictator’s face. This involves the use of massive images of the dictator’s face, which are displayed across the country, on billboards, public buildings, and just about everywhere else. They are usually dressed in military attire to project authority and fear. This is exactly what happened in Russia with images of Lenin’s face being posted everywhere, and later, Stalin’s face was everywhere for all the Russian people to see. We see it in China and all other communist dictatorships. The cult of the face is a psychological tool used on the masses.
So, to summarise:
1898 was the year the Communists revealed their face in Russia.
1898 was the year Jesus revealed His Face to the entire world!
What do you think?
1898 was an interesting year.
Many thanks to Catholicarrows.com for sharing your very inspirational morning thoughts, God Bless
