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Miss Hepburn
Without going into too much history, you may find the following of interest:
Die Isais Offenbarung (“The Isais Revelation”)
In about 1222 AD, Hubertus Koch, the commander of a Knights Templar company, was returning to Austria from the Holy Land. At Akkon he came across an extensive field of ruins which he took to be the remains of the former Assyrian capital Nineveh.
Suddenly there appeared before him “the graceful maiden-like figure of a girl whose copper-coloured hair waved in the breeze although the day was without wind.” She ordered him to go to the “Mountain of the Old God” known to all Bavarians as the Untersberg, seat of Wotan, build a temple in her honour inside the mountain, and await her next appearance.
Probably in the early summer of 1223 or thereabouts within the Untersberg mountain, the Archangel Isais began a series of apparitions occurring over some sixteen years. A record was kept of all her pronouncements to the Untersberg Templars, some 140 or so verses of varying lengths, taken down in the Bavarian dialect of the time between 1222 and 1238, (the first complete translation into modern German being made in 1863 and entitled in English “The Isais Revelation”, there is no full English translation).
Besides being Queen of Purgatory, Isais is the Grail Maiden on the basis of the long verses 48 and 49 and elsewhere in the epistle where she states that she personally recovered the Grail, “a black-lilac stone, which had been stolen from Valhalla by vassals of the Prince of Darkness, Shaddai.” It is interesting to note that the Grail legend in literature, the search for the lost Grail, dates from about this exact era.
The most recent apparitions of the Archangel Isais as Queen of Purgatory occurred on 105 occasions between 1 November 1937 and 4 November 1940 at the small German village of Heede. When asked how she wished to be invoked, the apparition stated to the child visionaries, “As Queen of the Universe and Queen of the Poor Souls in Purgatory”.
As to the real purpose of making so many apparitions to such a small Catholic village the Church, if it knows, is silent.
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