by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

There are many Saints at Rome which are unknown to the world, but whose virtues, example, heroism and holiness shine brightly in Heaven and Earth unto this day. As part of FromRome.info’s coverage, therefore, I would be amiss to neglect to cover the lives of some of them, which are important examples of unity for the Catholic Church.

The first of which, I want to speak of Saint Peter of Anagni, also known as San Pietro da Salerno (not to be confused with the homonymous Lombard tutor and prince, who died in 855 A. D., who usurped the throne of Salerno from Sico II). Not much is found online about this saint, whether in English or Italian, so here I publish the most complete online biography of this great man, for the sake of Catholics everywhere.

Birth and Youth

Peter was of the princely house of Salerno, a family of Lombards which had come to Italy in the 6th century as conquerors. In recent centuries they had ruled a variety of minor states in southern Italy, the chief of which was the Principality of Salerno.

It is not clear from which branch of the family, Saint Peter was descended, nor do we know the precise year of his birth or his parents names. His biography simply was content to say that in early childhood he was left an orphan, and thus came to be entrusted to the Abbey of Sts. Mary and Saint Benedict, at Salerno, in accord with the Rule of Saint Benedict, which in chapter 59, provided for the sustenance of the orphans of the nobility.

The Abbey itself, founded in 793 A. D., by the princes of Salerno, and was named by the Emperor Otto III as the head of all the Benedictine Monasteries in the region in 990 A. D.. In 1023 A. D., however, it was seized by the Lombard princes Guaiferio, Maione and Maginolfo, nephews of Guiamario IV, who held it until 1043 A. D., thus providing for a solid motive to abandon orphans to the care of the returning monks.

In the Service of Popes

It is this turbulent period in the history of the Abbey, that Saint Peter comes to be known in the historical record, when sometime after 1049 and before 1062, Saint Hildebrand, in his capacity as legate of Pope visited the monastery, and took Peter into his entourage. According to the historical record, Saint Hildebrand was in the area in 1059, accompanying Pope Nicholas II to the Council of Melfi (held Aug. 3rd to 25th), which was organized by the Abbot of Monte Cassino and which the Abbot of Sts. Mary and Benedict, at Salerno, would have undoubtedly attended. However, the Saints could have met in 1050, when Pope St. Leo IX held a Synod at Salerno, at which St. Hildebrand was most likely in attendance.

From this point on, St. Peter of Anagni was in the papal service, with the official title of papal chaplain, and most likely as a close collaborator with St. Hildebrand, who, in his youth, studied at the Benedictine Abby of St. Mary’s, on the Aventine, at Rome, under Archbishop Lorenzo of Amalfi, a town just a few miles north of Salerno, on the coast.

Bishop of Anagni

What is certain, though, is that Pope Alexander II nominated Saint Peter Bishop of Anagni in 1062 A. D.. This nomination took place during the rivalry (Oct. 28, 1061- May 31, 1064 A. D.) of Pope Alexander with the anti-pope Otto II (Peter Caldalo 1010-1072 A. D.), during which the true Pope sought to put bishops loyal to him in the empty episcopal sees of the Roman Province.

Saint Peter, then, must have been a most trusted collaborator of the Pope and a man of firm character who would be trusted not to cede to threats and bribes — rare virtues in the 11th century’s many tumults and controversies.

About a decade after his consecration as Bishop, the Roman Pontiff sent him on a diplomatic mission to the Roman Emperor, Michael VII Doukas (October 1, 1071- to March 31, 1078 A. D.). The formal motive for this mission seems to be suggested by the historical circumstances, in which the Papacy, having made a strong alliance with the Normans in southern Italy, found it necessary to send someone of the princely house of the Lombards of Salerno, the rivals of the Normans, as papal legate to Constantinople; and materially, in the fact that the recent schism of 1054 A. D., requires the Papacy to send someone who both spoke Greek and could with learning treat with questions both theological and legal. The occasion of the mission, however, appears connected to the central role played by the Abbot of Monte Casino in negotiating the marriage of Olipiade (Helena), daughter of Robert the Guiscard, to the son of Emperor Michael VII, Constantino Profirogenito, which made peace between the Normans and Greeks. Their marriage took place in 1074.

During this mission “pro concordia fidei,” the biographers of St. Peter of Anagni say that he experienced a heavenly vision of Our Lady, who told him to seek the intercession of St. Magnus, the patron Saint of Anagni, to cure the Emperor of his chronic and deadly disease; which Saint Peter promptly did, probably with the application of a relic of the Saint. In gratitude the Greek Emperor bestowed upon the Saint rich presents which he used to embellish the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Anagni, an impressive work which merited the Saint to be depicted for long ages afterwards with a Cathedral in his right hand.

St. Peter rebuilds the Cathedral of Our Lady, at Anagni

St. Peter’s most lasting work on earth, was the the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Anagni began in 1072-74 A. D.. When he came to the diocese, the church was in complete ruins. He rebuilt it on the highest point of the city, in Romanesque style and adorned it with the most beautiful inlaid mosaic floors, which still exist to this day. The construction began with the Crypt dedicated to the newly rediscovered remains of Saint Magnus 1068, both of which ere was not completed until 1104, though in subsequent decades and centuries various minor works were undertaken.

The Crypt of St. Magnus, which came to house the mortal remains, also of St. Peter, was called the “Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages” due to its wonderful Biblically inspired fresco paintings all all walls and ceilings, among which are a series dedicated to the life and martyrdom of Saint Magnus.

This work of restoration was truly inspired of God as can be seen by the important role this Cathedral would play in Church history in subsequent generations. In her were canonized Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Clair of Assisi, Saint Edward II King and Confessor and Saint Peter the Hermit. Here Pope Alexander III excommunicated the antipope Victor IV along with Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, on March 24, 1160 A. D.. Here, Pope Gregory IX imposed excommunication on Frederick II and reconciled him to the Church on September 1, 1230 A. D..  Here, the Cardinals elected Pope Boniface VIII, after the renunciation of the papacy by St. Celestine V. Here Boniface promulgated the Bull Unam Sanctam. Here the adherents of the family of Colonna, in the service of the French King, slapped Pope Boniface, with such force, that he died of the trauma a month later.

St. Peter reforms the Diocese of Anagni

Our Saint, however, became famous as a zealous adherent of the Gregorian reforms which Pope St. Gregory VII (Hildebrand) his patron, would lead from April 23, 1073 until his death on May 25, 1085 A. D., in one of the most stunning pontificates in the entire history of the Roman Church, which put the Pope in ecclesiastical and civil conflict with the principal rules of his day, and which he prosecuted with both numerous councils, synods, excommunications and wars.

The Gregorian Reform consisted in stamping out simony, concubinage and dissolute living among the clergy and religious of the Church, vindicating the rights of the Church over her properties and possessions, and insisting that ecclesiastical superiors be appointed and nominated only by the Church. This latter conflict was called the Investiture Controversy, and it put the Pope and his loyal supporters head-to-head with the lax and worldly clergy of his day, who wanted to collaborate fully with civil powers to the detriment of the Church’s institutions and the damnation of souls.

Saint Peter put this reform into practice in the Diocese of Anagni by reforming the clergy, taking back control of fields, vineyards, orchards and territories, which belonged to the Church, but through long neglect had come into the de facto control of laymen, princes and individual clerics. In this he was a close supporter of St. Bruno of Segni (1045-1123 A. D.), whose zeal in this regard was so strong, that he publicly rebuked Pope Pascal II for conceding a privilege to the German Emperor, and forced him to recant it at the First Lateran Council of 1116, where after the recantantion, St. Bruno arose and said, “I thank God that my lord and pope has abjured his heresy!”

Saint Peter on the First Crusade

At the end of his life, Saint Peter attended the First Crusade with Bohemond of Altavilla (d. 1111). Bl. Pope Urban II, at the Council of Clermont in 1095, had invited Bishops from all of Christendom to accompany the Crusaders as chaplains and military counselors. Saint Bruno, Peter’s close friend, had already showed his zeal by accompanying Bl. Urban II to France and back again, to promote the First Crusade and field an army to deliver Rome from the clutches of the anti-pope, Clement III, a feat accomplished in 1097 by one of the French Crusading contingents under the command of Count Hugh of Vermandois, brother of the Capetian King of France, Philip I. Like Philip, Hugh was son of Anne of Kyiv (1033-1075 A. D), who had married his father, Henry I.

It was then, as groups of Crusaders filtered their way down the peninsula of Italy, that Bohemond of Altavilla, took note of their holy quest and joined them by raising 35,500 soldiers. It was this host that St. Peter of Anagni joined, as chaplain and custodian. He remained in the Holy Land until 1102, though is not clear whether he joined Bohemond in 1097 when he set out, or in 1099 after he had become Prince of Antioch.

Bohemond was by far the most able military general of his age, and his role in the First Crusade was essential to its victory. Having had long experience fighting against the Greek Emperors for the control of southern Italy and western Greece, he had extensive knowledge of lands of the East and the methods of fighting in those distant regions. As such, he was one of the few principal leaders who refused to swear an oath of fealty to the Greek Emperor and under his leadership lead the attack on Antioch as well as its successful defense against a much larger host of Turks which had come to relieve its siege. In consequence, he proclaimed himself Prince of Antioch and was confirmed in this by the Papal Legate. Bohemond blazed a path in relations with the Christians of the East by marrying an Armenian princess.

St. Peter would have accompanied Bohemond to Jerusalem, for Christmas of 1099 A. D.,  where the latter fulfilled his crusader vows to journey to Jerusalem (he had not participated in its siege and capture) and with Peter attended the consecration of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Dagobert of Pisa. Arriving on Dec. 21, Bohemund immediately contested the uncanonical election of Arnulf of Chocques, and proceeded to his deposition after Christmas. He then promoted Dagobert to the See of Jerusalem, with the agreement of all the Crusading princes. St. Peter then was witness to the investment of Godfrey Duke of Bouillon with the title of Protector of the Holy Sepulcher and Bohemond of Altavilla as Prince of Antioch. After affairs became even more controverted in the Crusader States, St. Peter of Anagni returned back to his Diocese around 1102.

Saint Peter’s Death and Glorification

Saint Peter passed from this life on August 3, 1104 A. D.. As he did, Saint Bruno of Segni, from his mountain top See across the valley beheld a splendid light illumine the city of Anagni. Understanding its significance, he rushed to the city and presided over Saint Peter’s funeral. Immediately numerous miracles were worked in the presence of his relics and at his intercession, provoking such marvel among the Catholics of the Roman Province, that Pope Pasqual II on June 4, 1109 A. D., decreed his canonization in the bull, Dominum Excelsum and authorized his public cult. Saint Bruno himself wrote the postulatio and presided at the ceremony of canonization himself, as the Papal Legate. Saint Peter’s relics were transferred by his successor Bishop Peter II, to the very crypt of St. Magnus which he had built during his lifetime. The Cathedral then received the honor of being consecrated by Pope Alexander III in 1179 A. D. on the 75th anniversary of the Saint’s death.

SHORT VIDEO OF THE CRYPT OF SAINT MAGNUS:

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by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

The level of malignancy and evil revealed in the following CIA document is beyond anything imaginable: a plan for Ideological Warfare against the Catholic Church with the aim of seizing the Papacy itself, placing thereon an agent to achieve the world-wide goals of the plan, which are the supremacy of Americanism.

This document was published in its final form on July 29, 1953, exactly 60 days before the Image of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, at Syracuse, Sicily, would burst into a flood of tears, and cause a shrine to be built in that city, which would become one of the great destinations of Marian pilgrimage in the Catholic world.

Can anyone now doubt the deep reason for such a divine prodigy?

This CIA document was scheduled to be declassified on April 28, 2005, just days after the Conclave which should have elected Bergoglio, but failed to do so, had concluded.

But George Bush, Jr., the US President and Skull and Bones Man, chose to delay that publication. It was declassified instead on Dec. 29, 2013 A. D.., exactly 60 years and 6 months from the date of the publication of its final version.

For anyone who can think, those dates should make you realize something: this document was kept secret during the entire Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. And it was scheduled to be released only on two occasions, both when Bergoglio was to be in power!

Can one seek a clearer sign that the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the ultimate objective of this 60 year long plot to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ?

If you have any doubt, consider these points: this document was composed by the Psychological Bureau Services (aka National Psychological Strategy Board= of the OSS, US Military Intelligence, already by that time incorporated into the CIA, along with the entire Nazi spy network of Western Europe. Indeed, the document reeks of Hegelianism and an approach to disinformation, misinformation and propaganda in which the National Socialist Party and her adepts were known experts.

The Bureau involved such persons as Edward P. Lilly, whose role is detailed in his Wikipedia article, and Captain Gordon Grey, Secretary of the Army (1949-50), first director (from 1950-52) of the NPSB and member of the masonic Order of the GimGhool.

It was signed and approved by Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, member of the Order of Malta and the Skull and Bones Lodge. The very man, whose nephew was rewarded with a Cardinal’s hat by John Paul II!

Is it any wonder then, that the Mafia of St. Gallen, which met in a city where the Nazi’s where highly respected, and included Bishops whose episcopal lines embraced the very Catholic Bishops who collaborated most closely with Nazi Germany, should be the ones to seize the Vatican with the assistance of the Reich-bank Deutsche Bank in March of 2013 A. D.?

In this document, the ultimate purpose was hidden from government workers, by the use of a simple code, that is, wherever one reads, “Communist”, one was to understand “Catholic Church”, whenever and wherever necessary.  This was proposed by Henry Booth Luce, founder of Time and Life Magazines. (cf. “John Courtney Murry, Time/Life and the American Proposition: How the CIA’s Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church”, by Dr. David Wemhoff, 2022: Vol, Chapter 3 & chapter 33)

Here is the very document, the execution of which is THE explanation for Vatican II, the putsch to remove Benedict, the election of Bergoglio and perhaps the elections of John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II.

Any Catholic media outlet which will NOT discuss this document, should be considered a bought-and-paid CIA front.

UPDATE: OMC Radio TV did a follow up on the man behind this document here.

The author of the above mentioned book, Attorney Wemhoff, has honored FromRome.Info with a mention in his recent post:

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HOLY FATHER’S ADDRESS TO THE PRIESTS OF ROME

VATICAN TRANSLATION

Your Eminence,
Dear Brother Bishops and Priests,

For me it is a particular gift of Providence that, before leaving the Petrine ministry, I can once more see my clergy, the clergy of Rome. It is always a great joy to see the living Church, to see how the Church in Rome is alive; there are shepherds here who guide the Lord’s flock in the spirit of the supreme Shepherd. It is a body of clergy that is truly Catholic, universal, in accordance with the essence of the Church of Rome: to bear within itself the universality, the catholicity of all nations, all races, all cultures. At the same time, I am very grateful to the Cardinal Vicar who helps to reawaken, to rediscover vocations in Rome itself, because if Rome, on the one hand, has to be the city of universality, it must also be a city with a strong and robust faith of its own, from which vocations are also born. And I am convinced that, with the Lord’s help, we can find the vocations that he himself gives us, we can guide them, help them to mature, so as to be of service for work in the Lord’s vineyard.

Today you have professed the Creed before the tomb of Saint Peter: in the Year of Faith, this seems to me to be a most appropriate act, a necessary one, perhaps, that the clergy of Rome should gather around the tomb of the Apostle to whom the Lord said: “To you I entrust my Church. Upon you I will build my Church” (cf. Mt 16:18-19). Before the Lord, together with Peter, you have professed: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16). Thus the Church grows: together with Peter, professing Christ, following Christ. And we do this always. I am very grateful for your prayers, which I have sensed, as I said on Wednesday – almost palpably. And although I am about to withdraw, I remain close to all of you in prayer, and I am sure that you too will be close to me, even if I am hidden from the world.

Continue here.

Commentary by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

Here we have one of the strongest testimonies that Pope Benedict XVI had no intention at all of abdicating the Papacy. Ignored for 9 years this talk to the Clergy of Rome, just 3 days after his Declaratio of Renunciation is a key to understanding the true sense of those words and their impact on the Church.

One of the first things one notices, when watching the video, is that the Holy Father is having difficulty moving, that he is stiff, and that he does not turn so freely to speak or look at others. Is it arthritis, or is he tired of all the fake adulations he has received during the first 8 years of his pontificate?

His hair is unkempt, and to me that shows that all those around him had the deepest contempt for him, because no one with any sense of the dignity of the Roman Pontiff would let him appear in public with unkempt hair. Perhaps I am prejudiced by the fact that my maternal grandfather was a barber, but knowing how obsessive Italians are with their personal appearance before they go into public, I think I am correct in this estimation.

Then, one notices that the Holy Father, at his entrance, is impatient that the clergy clap so long at his entrance to the Paul VI hall. And perhaps not surprisingly.

I find it a strange reaction, that the clergy should clap, if they think he has just abdicated. It is as if they wanted him out and are glad that he decided to surrender.

It’s not appropriate.

Then at the end of the applause some priests shout in unison: Long live the Pope! — Something you would not shout if you thought he was not going to be pope for the rest of his life, would you? Or perhaps they think they are at a soccer game. I have a higher opinion of the clergy of Rome, but perhaps I am wrong.

TRANSLATION

In the translation by the Vatican, there is an important error, that I noticed immediately. Where the Holy Father, at about 6:30 into this video, the Holy Father does NOT say, as the Vatican would have us believe:

And although I am about to withdraw, I remain close to all of you in prayer, and I am sure that you too will be close to me, even if I am hidden from the world.

But rather, says (my English translation):

Even if I retire in prayer, I am always near to all of you, and I am sure that you will always be near to me, even if for the world I am hidden.

Here we have one of the first signs that the Vatican was playing with the words of the Holy Father. A game of deception they have been playing all these nine years. And for which reason, Benedict XVI knowing this has to speak in code to get his messages out, through the censorship of a devious and deliberately false translation.

Because as can be seen from my translation, it is obvious that Benedict XVI is avoiding the word “abdicate” and “renounce the papacy” and is making it quite clear that he is continuing being the Pope, but not in a way the Globalists and Freemasons will recognize.

Also, by saying “vicino” in Italian, which could mean either near or close, he is using an amphibology to indicate that he will remain in the Vatican, and that the true Catholic clergy of Rome will remain under his jurisdiction, that is, in communion with him as the Pope.

This sheds light on the beginning of his discourse, where he says that it is “opportuno”, that is “opportune” or in the Latin “necessary” that the clergy of Rome visit the Tomb of St. Peter and confess his faith in the Son of the Living God. This is a warning of what was to come and a sign that the Apostolic See would be impeded, because the clergy could not visit him, but only go so far as St. Peter’s Basilica.

But the Vatican translation hid that, by translating “opportuno” as “appropriate”.

As he continues, he ironically remarks, as a further hint to those listening with honesty and faith, that his health does not permit him to give a long discourse, and then proceeds to give a long discourse! Thus signalling that what he said about his health being the reason for his renunciation of ministry just days before, was not to be understood as his motive for saying what he said.

I make other observations in my first article about this meeting with the Clergy of Rome, nearly 3 years ago, here.

But though many have their own opinions about why he did what he did, no one can deny that he has explicitly avoided any reference, for 9 years, to an abdication. Indeed, he wears white every day to shout out, that he retains the papal dignity.

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

I. Today, April 16, 2022 A. D. is the 95th Birthday of Pope Benedict XVI.

Providentially, he was born on an April 16, which was also a Holy Saturday, like today.  Pope Benedict XVI was given the name Joseph Ratzinger at baptism. April 16 is also the Feast of Bl. Benedict Joseph Labre, a poor pilgrim who wandered Europe, and who died at Rome (buried near the  Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas).

II. Pope Benedict XVI is the oldest living pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

At 95 years of age, Pope Benedict XVI surpasses the runner up, Pope Leo XIII by two years. The latter died in 1903 A. D. at the age of 93.

III, Pope Benedict XVI was threatened in multiple ways to resign

Since the winter of 2012, there was an active conspiracy to drive Pope Benedict XVI to abdicate. This began with the theft of his personal correspondence from the desk of Father George Ganswein in January. In February 11, 2012, an assassination threat was revealed by Cardinal Papalardo of Palermo: demanding that Pope Benedict XVI resign within a year or else.

During the course of 2012, the revelations of betray and the untimely death of a close friend were calculated to put the Holy Father under the maximum psychological pressure. Since 2010, demands from the heretical clergy of Austria and Germany insisted on his resignation and threaten schism if he failed to comply. Then in January 2013, the SWIFT Banking system, headed by a CEO who was a Rothschild agent, shut down all bank-wires to and from the Vatican. Deutsch Bank followed suit by shutting down all the ATM machines in Vatican City. As the Cardinals arrived in Rome, in early February of 2013, a demand was made for Pope Benedict XVI to resign.

IV. The Globalists had to get rid of Pope Benedict XVI so as to prepare for the Scamdemic and Great Reset

Pope Benedict XVI was and is an ardent opponent of relativism. He warned the faithful repeatedly of a dictatorship of relativism which was being prepared worldwide. He chided the Globalists by saying the New World Order would fail if it did not take the Child Jesus as its guide. He condemned vaccines made from aborted babies. He insisted that Catholics practice faith in Jesus even as a contradiction to the dearest and most cherished values of modernity.

It would have been impossible to launch the fraud of the Scamdemic and to push transhumanism and world enslavement with Pope Benedict XVI as the moral leader of Christendom. His elimination was a necessity.

V. Pope Benedict XVi and John Paul II prepared a secret plan to defeat Freemasonry’s attempt to take over the Papacy

In 1983, Pope John Paul II issued a new Code of Canon Law, in which he changed the requirement for a valid papal resignation. He made the canon, now 332.2 allow for an apparent resignation, in which the Pope would renounce something similar but not equal to the Papal Office. He did this with the counsel of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

VI. Pope Benedict XVI fooled the Globalits by faking a Papal abdication

Using the plan he had prepared with Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict did not abdicate when the Mafia of St. Gall and Globalists demanded that he do so. He renounced the ministerium instead of the munus, the key sign required for a papal resignation. Thus the enemies of Christ, being deceived, became so giddy with glee that they failed to examine the Latin text of his Declaratio of Feb. 11, 2013, and proceeded to elect the Globalist Puppet chosen by the CIA: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Cardinal Archbishop of Buenas Aires, Argentina.

Pope Benedict XVI did this in obedience to a divine inspiration given him in the previous summer. Recognizing that the entire Curia was opposing him, as Christ’s Vicar, he realized that he had to declare to the world, in a way Catholics could eventually understand, what was going on. His declaration whereby he renounced the ministerium, instead of the papacy, effectively put the entire Vatican apparatus in a position of illegality. The conclave which followed never legally existed, was illegitimate and elected an anti-pope.

VII. The World was fooled by the Fake News that Pope Benedict XVI had resigned, because no one examined exactly what Benedict did

The international press, run and controlled by the Globalists, scored its first great victory to prepare for the Great Reset by fooling nearly the entire Catholic World into thinking that Pope Benedict XVI had abdicated. An entire panoply of voices opposed to expelling pedophiles from the clergy, wanted Benedict gone and rejoiced at the thought he had resigned. They began to gaslight Catholics everywhere who raised questions about the real meaning of the Declaratio.

Overtime however Catholic Experts have discovered the fraud of the news of that day, and are remounting an international effort to restore Pope Benedict XVI, begin a Catholic Reset and overthrow Globalism. We invite you to join us, on twitter at @B16Restore.

This is the talk given by the Archbishop on Jan. 26, 1947 A. D.. If he had heeded his own words, 20 years later, he would not have accepted Vatican II, which spread all the errors he condemns here.

Here, seems to be the same talk, translated into Italian: