Divided all church history into seven “ages.” The fifth age “affliction, desolation, humiliation… heresies, apostasy” ends with the rise of the Holy Pope and Great Monarch, inaugurating the sixth age “Age of Consolation”/Peace, a glorious period for the Church. After the sixth, comes the age of Antichrist and the Last Judgment.
Predicted in the “fifth age” disaster: apostasy, moral collapse, civil/religious decline; “heretics and tyrants” invade, Rome is attacked and burned, enemies in control. The Church will seem destroyed, but God will bring about a “wonderful change”—the Monarch and Angelic Pontiff restore peace and unity.
Prophesied a “valiant Monarch anointed by God” descendant of Louis IX and German imperial family, born in exile will destroy heresies, unite Christendom, restore peace on earth; at the same time, the “Holy Pope” reigns, a new council defines doctrine, worldwide unity.
After tribulation, “Sixth Age” described as era of Catholic renewal—sciences, arts, and spiritual life flourish, Holy Scripture unanimously interpreted, Satan bound and atheism/heresies suppressed; peace lasts until Antichrist.