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Baruch, a successful Jewish businessman who served as an advisor to Pope Benedict IX.
Benedict requested that he convert to Catholicism, which Baruch did, changing his name to that
of the Pope. The name ‘Benedict’ is Latin for ‘blessed,’ while the name ‘Baruch’ is Hebrew for
the same thing. The conversion was in name only, because Baruch still financed a synagogue in
the Jewish quarter of Rome.
Baruch’s son, an aide to Pope Leo IX (1049-55), also converted, changing his name to Lee.
Lee’s son, Petrus Leonis, was the first to use the name Pierleone. His family became an
established financial power in the late 11th century, and became active in the affairs of the
Catholic Church. His son, Pietro, was sent to a monastery where he worked his way up, attaining
the position of cardinal.
When Pope Honorius II (1124-30) was on his deathbed, preparations were made to elect a
new Pope. The Pierleone family offered their son, the cardinal; while the Frangipani family, a
traditional Catholic family, offered its own candidate. The Frangipani hid the Pope, and after he
died in 1130, convened a portion of the cardinals to elect their choice, who adopted the name
Innocent II (1130-43). The Pierleone family held an election the same day, with a greater number
of cardinals present, and elected Pietro, who took the name Anacletus II (1130-38). Rome sided
with Anacletus, and Innocent II fled to France, then later traveled around Europe, accusing
Anacletus of being an ‘anti-pope.’ Despite efforts to remove him, Anacletus remained Pope till
he died in 1138. A year later, Innocent II returned, and after Victor IV resigned (also considered
to be an anti-pope), was elected, and served till his death in 1143. The Vatican now refers to
Anacletus II as an ‘anti-pope’ (“one who uncanonically claims or exercises the office of the
Roman Pontiff”), and has eliminated him from papal history.
Two other Popes were also members of the Jewish Pierleone family: Gregory VI (1045-46)
and Gregory VII (1073-86, known as ‘Hildebrand,’ who was a descendant of a daughter of Lee,
and was later made a saint).
On May 13, 1917, Lucia dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marta, who were
tending their sheep near Cova da Iria, saw their first of 6 visions of the Virgin Mary in the hilly
terrain of Fatima, Portugal. A series of others followed on the same day every month till
October. Mary gave three prophecies concerning the end of World War I, World War II, and
Russia. One prophecy said that when an unknown light was seen in the sky, it would be a sign
from God that he would punish the world through war, persecution, and famine. On the day of
Mary’s sixth appearance, October 13, she had promised a miracle. Over 70,000 people showed
up in the pouring rain to observe the event. In a ten-minute display, the sun came up, spun in the
sky, plunged downward, then rose again. The crowd, as well as the ground, were dried.
Lucia later became a Carmelite nun in Coimbra, Portugal, and in 1927 reported that Jesus
had appeared to her and made several prophecies.
This is the text of the first two prophecies in 1917–
“The first part is the vision of hell. Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed
to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like
transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the
conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves
together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge
fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair,