Mgr. Louis Gaston de Ségur writes,

“The good God does everything in His time. His wisdom united itself to His mercy in giving to the Church the divine treasure of the Heart of Jesus for the time when it was going to have the greatest need of it. The Savior said so Himself, first to St. Gertrude and then to Blessed Margaret Mary: “My Divine Heart is destined for the last times.”

“Let there be no mistake, all the signs indicated by the Son of God in the twenty-fourth chapter of St. Matthew amass and unite, so to speak, with fearful evidence: the faith diminishes and goes away; the Gospel is preached almost everywhere; baptized societies have all apostatized; frightful wars and struggles of people against people and nation against nation terrify the world over; miracles spring up everywhere; a truly extraordinary mass of prophecies, many of which are certainly authentic, unite holy souls by a secret instinct; finally, the three mysteries which seemingly must serve as a refuge for the Church of God in the supreme tribulations, the mystery of the infallibility of the Pope, the mystery of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and the mystery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, tower over the universal tempest incited against all that is Catholic, bringing the true faithful the steadfastness of faith and obedience, the grace of innocence necessary for triumph, and the gift of absolutely divine charity, mercy, and reparation. Everything signals to us the more or less immediate approach of these “last times” predicted by the God of the Sacred Heart.

…Great crimes are going to be born from these great blasphemies: the conspiracy of anti-Christian Freemasonry is going to shake the Church to its foundations; a savage persecution is going to destroy Europe’s ancient Catholic institutions, and, appropriately beginning by way of France and Rome, it is going to chop off the head less of the most Christian king than of the most Christian monarchy, less of Louis XVI than of the eldest son of the Church; it is going to close the temples, massacre the priests and bishops, destroy the religious orders, raise a harlot above the altars, drag the Pope into exile and have him die therein; it is going to inaugurate a new society without faith, without God, without Jesus Christ; it is going to inaugurate and propagate throughout the entire world that immense blasphemy called the separation of Church and State; it is going to ruin the life of grace in millions and millions of souls.

(Mgr. Louis Gaston de Ségur, The Sacred Heart of Jesus, trans. by Ryan P. Plummer [St. Louis, MO: Lambfount, 2024], pp.35-36,38; underlining added.)”