Imagine you just recently had your 4th birthday & there’s a knock at the door. Who is it? A soldier who demands that you attend a residential school far from home. If your parents resisted, they were beaten & arrested.
After the residential school system was develop, it was mandatory for children as young as 4 to attend until they were 18 years old. Native children were prohibited from practicing their own culture or religion. School staff even went as far as bathing these kids in toxic chemicals to make them look more like Europeans.
Their long hair was cut & the breasts of young girls were binded to make them feel ashamed of their maturing bodies. You could only speak English or you would be harshly punished. Their tongues were repeatedly pierced with needles if they spoke anything other than English.
Other punishments included electrical shock, being put in cages, burning of hands, public strip searches in front of other children, & force feeding of one’s own vomit when they’re sick.
If any letters were written home, it was in English so parents did not even know how to read it. Both boys & girls were sexually abused & girls who got pregnant were forced to have an abortion & even pray for the forgiveness of their abusers.
Student deaths were so common that graveyards were usually part of the school’s architectural plans.
Upon returning home, these children were so lost that they were unable to communicate with their own families. That is why us Native Americans get so defensive when someone says, “Let it go, it happened in the past.”
This traumatic time in history should not be ignored. 🦅
🙏 In Memory of the 215 deceased children found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. May they find Peace.
Did you know it has a twin, 200 miles away, also named after St. Michael?
That’s where things get really strange…
This is the “twin”: St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall, England.
It’s also a tidal island with a chapel, remarkably similar to its French counterpart, and only accessible at low tide.
Here’s a map of the two. You can draw a line between them just over 200 miles long as the crow flies.
But what happens if you keep extending that line?
You get this: a straight line all the way from Ireland to Israel. Along it are 7 medieval monasteries linked to the Archangel Michael.
What are they, and is this just a strange coincidence?
St. Michael is one of the biblical archangels. He’s best known for defeating Satan in the New Testament, and is usually depicted with a sword or spear during this heroic moment.
Each point on the line has a curious link to him…
The westernmost point is an island called Skellig Michael. Medieval monks started worshipping here in the 7th century, and built a church honoring Michael around 950 AD.
Next is St. Michael’s Mount. A monastery was built here in the 8th century, and it was later gifted to the same Benedictine order of Mont Saint-Michel.
But local legend says the link is far older, and Michael was sighted here by fishermen in 495 AD.
Then, Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. People call it the 8th Wonder of the World for obvious reasons — it can be hard to believe it’s a real place.
This one has the most curious origin story of all…
In 708 AD, an oratory was built here by a local bishop. He had been visited by Michael in a series of visions and instructed to build a shrine on the island…
Why? Because this was the exact point at which Saint Michael defeated Satan (in the form of a dragon).
This is stated in a 9th century Latin text recording the origins of Mont-Saint-Michel.
Next is Sacra di San Michele, at the peak of Mount Pirchiriano (near Turin).
It’s also on an impressive pinnacle, and its origin story is a vision of St. Michael. In 980 AD, he appeared to a hermit and instructed him to build an abbey here.
Next is even older. The Sanctuary of Monte Sant’Angelo is the oldest shrine dedicated to St. Michael in Europe.
8th century writings say he appeared in 490 AD, and again in 663 — when his spectacular apparition helped the Lombards defeat invaders in battle.
Then, a small Greek island called Symi. Most of its religious buildings are dedicated to Michael, including this one in Panormitis. It dates all the way to 450 AD, and was built around a miraculous icon of Michael…
Last is the Stella Maris Monastery in Israel, on Mount Carmel — close to Nazareth.
It’s also a vantage point, but not dedicated to St. Michael. It’s where the prophet Elijah lived, built over a small grotto of his…
Similar imagery to Michael is associated with Elijah, wielder of a sword.
And the monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary — Queen of Angels. Perhaps it’s fitting that the line ends here, at the entrance to the Holy Land…
So, what is this all about? Some say the line represents the stroke of St. Michael’s sword that sent Lucifer to Hell.
But how accurate is the line exactly?
order to capture all of 7 points in an arc connecting the end points, the line has to be about 20km wide.
Sacra di San Michele falls exactly in line with the two extremes.
This is what’s known as a “ley line”. Of course, you can draw them between all sorts of places and eventually find one. There’s even another relating to St. Michael across England:
They’re usually put down to sheer coincidence. But what about this one?
Well, there are many more accounts from the Middle Ages of him appearing miraculously across Europe, and plenty of other sites bearing his name.
But these are the most beautiful and significant of all, arranged curiously in one great swing of a sword.
Were they named intentionally by medieval Christians to form a line? Or did they simply fall into place…
Looking at Mont-Saint-Michel, it’s certainly hard not to conclude it was divinely created…
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I was raised in the forest, many miles from society. School was social hour. My friends were dogs. I did not watch tv. I was separated from all the hype of life in the cities.
I’m interested in the truth. That means listening to all data before generating a perception.
I’m against good men dying in dictators’ wars for dominance.
Folks will get real upset with you when you don’t pick a side. They feel if you are “warm” you’re no good. They don’t care for peace, only conformity.
The links below are from X (twitter). Unfortunately, X no longer allows embedding of the files into other platforms, so I’ve shared the links.
It’s video of men explaining how they feel about the Jewish people. Again, I don’t pick sides. I’m only trying to understand. I share, in the event you would like to have exposure to info explaining the heated relations between people.
There is a difference between being entertained, and worshipping the entertainer.
I’m not religious. I was raised in an abundant forested area. My guardians never spoke of God, or anything holy. We did not have tv, we did not have money for concerts or movies. I fell in love with the life which surrounded me … the waters, the trees and bushes of the forest, the animals which lived there from the creepy crawlies to the elk, cougar, bear and birds, the songsters and the birds of prey.
Today during quiet time it became very clear to me, I saw it plain.
Idol worship is forbidden in the Bible, yet people do it all the time. In rock stars and such, movie stars, sports teams and players, even one’s favorite newscaster. Those whose only purpose is to entertain the people, for a moment, but the entertainment turns into worship and idolization of the entertainer.
It’s happening every day on such a wide scale. What happens to idol worshippers in the Bible?
Physical and Spiritual death.
It is said Satan has the right to test people, to lure them away from their Divinity and heavenly home. So many have succumbed, even I. When I became aware, rather shatteringly to the reality, I was spiritually accosted and feasted upon. Twenty years I suffered greatly.
Thanks be to my Heavenly Father for statute of limitations. Thank you for teaching me to persevere through challenges put upon me. Thank you for opportunity to speak into the collective via this platform.
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