Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
“There shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing will be visible, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly, but not only, the enemies of religion.”

St. Casper(Jasper) Del Bufalo
“ He who out lives the darkness and the fear of these three days will think that he is alone on earth, because the whole world will be covered with cadavers."

Blessed Mary of Jesus, Crucified
"During a darkness lasting three days the people given to evil will perish so that only one fourth of mankind will survive.”

Venerable Elizabeth Canori-mora
"… the sky was covered with clouds so dense and dismal that it was impossible to look at them without dismay. on a sudden there burst out such a terrible and violent wind, that its noise sounded like the roars of furious lions. The sound of the furious hurricane was heard over the whole earth. Fear and terror struck not only men, but the very beast."

No official website on Padre Pio mentions a letter he is purported to have written detailing the three days of darkness. There is some evidence to the contrary that Padre Pio denied giving this prophecy.

Something that is widely discussed periodically. Has anyone made a study of this eschatalogical event? Skeptics spare us your jeering – we already know all the rest including ‘pushing the sale of candles’.

There was a time when people didn't understand what eclipses were... And there is a time now that people still hold true to the frightening happenstances of one.

Good grief...how sad people still live in fear.

I think three days of darkness = big volcano. That could happen at anytime. If the one in Yellowstone goes that might be more than three day of darkness more like maybe a year. Oh well, stuff happens.

Well played, Darkwind!

The volcanic eruption of the Western imagination is Vesuvius, August 24, 25, and 26 of 79 CE. That it was locally "darker than night" is attested to by Pliny the Younger. His letter to Tacitus is translated here:

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/404b/we...%20vesuvius.htm

My friend Compline, this is not a sceptic's jeering. When several authors use the same striking image, it is reasonable to inquire whether there is some common source each of them might plausibly have read or otherwise encountered.

Anyone who has studied Latin, not unheard of among Catholics through the years, has plausibly read this letter.

It is not proof, but it is worthy of consideration.

'eight bits' date='Dec 21 2007, 05:17 PM' post='2052688'] "... My friend Compline, this is not a sceptic's jeering. When several authors use the same striking image, it is reasonable to inquire whether there is some common source each of them might plausibly have read or otherwise encountered.
Anyone who has studied Latin, not unheard of among Catholics through the years, has plausibly read this letter. It is not proof, but it is worthy of consideration."

It is very much in the Catholic tradition that unless there is widespread personal repentance for dark deeds and personal sacrifices made in atonement, a cataclysm will strike the earth. We have the Lourdes and Fatima appearances, and those in the 1960s at Garabandal and many others lesser known ones.
Tiny voices passing the word around heeded by few.
Yes, either another Kraktoa or a comet can easily happen; yes also to the negativity-fear accompanying the constant awareness of such a prediction.
I am hoping for responses from people who have made a study of this prediction.
All good wishes for Christmas Eightbits

I don't know anything about it but here hope it helps.

http://www.tldm.org/news/darkness-11-13-98.htm

http://www.catholicplanet.com/future/three-days-darkness.htm

Chaoszerg's link reminds that darkness...for three days appears in so many words in Exodus (10:22-23). The distress of the Egyptians is somewhat abstractly conveyed there, and the darkness is a selective thing, since the Israelites were unaffected. The visions recounted in the OP vary in how selective their anticipated sufferings will be.

Of course, leaving the misery of the Egyptians largely to the imagination is not such a bad thing for promoting recollection at someone's personal well of symbolic imagery.

Score another one for Darkwind, then, since it has been theorized that many of the plagues echo what may well have happened in Egypt during the nearby eruption of Thera (Santorini), and its ensuing ecological disasters.

And so we now have two independent sources for the specific imagery, and even the phrase itself, of darkness for three days, accompanied by catastrophic human misery, both sources almost surely being in the experience of the visionaries in question.

There is no prize for finding the image's components used separately: darkness for divine displeasure and human despair, groupings of three for all manner of spirtual transactions, especially three hours of darkeness at the crucifixion and the three days from that of the crucifixion through that of the resurrection.

I think this is fair game, Compline. Visions have form as well as substance. Inquiry into the possible sources of that form is well intended and also wise

And a prophesy is not just a vision; it is a communicated vision. The effect upon the reader or listenter is worth considering, too. Anyone can feel, not just hear, the difference between

There will be darkness throughout the world.

There will be three days of darkness throughout the world.

Better poetry makes better prophesy. It is not a nasty thing to say.

Merry Christmas to you, too, Compline.

Blessed those that go anywhere near the Antarctica that is tilted away from the sun, causing it to be dark for the half of the year that is summer <----dark days ..yup you can say that again lol