Man from the Far North
The Strange Prophecy of Mitar Tarabich
by Charles Reed -
O God, who doest marvellous things, and incomprehensible, and wonderful things without number. Job 5
O sing unto the Lord a new song: for he has done marvellous things. -Psalm 97
Part I
1. Andrew from the Far North
2. The Strange Destiny of Charles Reid
3. The Mysterious Destiny of Charles' Grandson
4. Charles Began to Write
5. He Wrote About Love and Compassion
6. A Horrifying Ugly Prophecy
7. Common People Believing in False Ideas
8 Is the Prophecy Fulfilled?
9. Note about Prophecy: His Writings Will Remain
Part II
1. Objections and Answers
2. Only Three Times in World History
3. Notes About Scandinavia
In the 19th century there lived a pious, illiterate Serbian peasant in the south of Europe, who received revelations about future events. His name was Mitar Tarabich. He died in 1899.
Mitar's uncle was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He wrote down the prophecies of nis nephew, to preserve them for posterity.
No sooner had Mitar died, than some of the prophecies were fulfilled. He predicted the coming of television. At that time the word television did not exist; he said that there would be a small box filled with many images, and that people would sit in front of it, staring at the box, thus predicting the bad effects of too much TV watching. He prophesied the coming of petroleum and oil wells. He called it "black gold," because the owners of these petroleum wells became immensely wealthy.
Mitar predicted that women would dress like men, wearing pants and having short hair. He said that if you saw a couple at a distance it would seem that it was two men, for the woman wore pants and had short hair. He said that there would even be weddings, in which the bride wore pants, so from a distance it seemed that two men were being married.
Mitar Tarabich predicted the future of the chief of state of Yugoslavia, saying that he wouold die soon after having a horse riding accident. The famous dictator of Yugoslavia, Tito, died exactly as he had foretold.
The Enigmatic Prophecy
Mitar said: There will come a little man from the far north, who willl write about love (charity) and compassion.
He will have many ups and downs, and he will be surrounded by hypocrites and Judases.
But his holy writings will remain, and then people will understand how deceived and misled they had been.
Part I
1. Andrew from the Far North
Located only three degrees from the arctic circle, Trondheim is the former capital of Norway. It was near Trondheim that Saint Olaf, King and Martyr, was martyred. St. Olaf is the patron saint of Norway. All the Scandinavian countries were Catholic, until the time of the Protestant Reformation, when they became Lutheran.
In 1841 a Child was born in Trondheim, named Enre (Andrew) Krogstad. When Enre was a young man, he sometimes made hikes and journeys to the far north, going even to the arctic circle, land of the midnight sun and the northern lights.
When he was 25, Mr. Krogstad emigrated to New York, and then to Whtehall, Michigan, USA. At Whitehall there was a large Swedish-American population; there was a Swedish Lutheran church, in which the sermon was preached in the Swedish language.
At Whitehall, Mr. Krogstad met Miss Matilda Johnson. She had been born in Jonkoping, Sweden, near where St. Bridget of Sweden had once lived. Krogstad married Miss Johnson, and they had nine children.
Mr. Krogstad was a devout Lutheran, and read and studied his Bible often. On Sunday the entire family attended the Swedish Lutheran church at Whitehall.
It is beautiful to see an entire family -- father, mother, and children all in a row -- in church, praying together, singing hymns together, and even receiving communion together. Their faith is a force that unites them, and if they all persevere in grace until death, that family will be together in the heavenly Jerusalem, for the endless ages of eternity.
The children grew up speaking Swedish at home, and learned English in the public schools.
One of Mr. Krogstad's hobbies was to study medicine. When one of his children became ill, he did not send them to the doctor, he attended to their needs himself. One of his daughters was named Helen.
The domestic life of the Krogstad family must have been extremely happy. For when Helen was recounting her childhood experiences to a relative, many years afterwards, she had to pause for five seconds, because she was weeping from nostalgia.
Enre (Andrew) Krogstad died in 1927 at Whitehall, Michigan, USA, and is buried there in the municipal cemetery. Perhaps his soul is among the blessed saints of Paradise.
The posthumous destiny of souls is a profound, unfathomable mystery. We will not know for certain, until the day of judgmernt, about Andrew's soul, when all books will be opened (Apoc.) and all secrets revealed. (Mat. 10:26)
Helen Place (nee Helen Krogstad) died in 1982 at the age of 87 and is buried in the same cemetery.
2. The Strange Destiny of Charles Reid
In the far north of Germany, a man named Mr. Reid emigrated to Detroit, Michigan, USA. There he married a French Canadian young lady. Her relatives in Canada were extrmely displeased with this marriage and thought it totally inappropriate. So they came to Detroit and took her back to Canada. But a baby boy named Charles had already been born. Mr. Reid did not want the responsibility of caring for this boy, so he arranged for him to be adopted by the Place family in Detroit. Thus the boy's legal name was Charles Place, although he had a German father and French Canadian mother. Charles Place married Helen Krogstad in 1916 in Detroit, Michigan, and they had 2 children, a boy and girl. Charles Place (Reid) died in 1952 at the age of 57.
3. The Mysterious Destiny of Charles' Grandson
At the time of Charles' demise, his grandson was a 7 year old boy. The boy grew up. At age 21 he joined the Catholic Church. (His relatives were extremely displeased and angry at his decision, with the exception of his maternal grandmother.) At age 28 this young man (great-grandson of Andrew Krogstad), joined a religious order in Latin America. Again, all his relatives, with the sole exception of his maternal grandmother, were upset and angry at his decision. His grandmother even sent his birth certificate from San Jose, California, to El Paso, Texas, in order to facilitate his legal entrance into Latin America, when he joined the Order in 1971.
4. Charles Began to Write
After 10 years in the order, he was promoted to being the editor of its magazine, named Reflections. He wrote all the editorials, until it ceased to exist, 20 years later, when the order was shut down, disintegrated and was dissolved. After that he still continuewd to write, from time to time.
5. He wrote about love and compassion
Charles wrote about love, not romantic love, not fraternal love, but about the highest form of love, namely, the love Christ spoke about when he said: Greater love than this no man has, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13.
For example, Charles wrote an editorial about Peter d'Airelle, a child in France who died in order to save and convert his father, who was living in mortal sin.
The virtue of love (charity) has many ramifications, as St. Paul writes in First Corinthians 13, that love is patient, love is kind, love believews all things, hopes for all things, endures all things, etc.
So he also wrote about the virtue of hope, about the moral virtues, especially about gratitude (thanksgiving), about the contrary vices, especially about pride, the greatest of the capital sins, that does so much damage to souls, and about many other topics, too numerous to be mentioned here.
6. A Horrifying Ugly Prophecy
Mitar said: He will have many ups and downs, and he will be surrounded by hypocrites.
There is nothing surprising about the first part. Nearly everyone has ups and downs in their life.
But to be surrounded by hypocrites for 30 years? It was a shocking, ugly, painful, embarrassing (and at one time, nightmarish) experience. How nightmarish is suggested in Chapter 5 of Mount Zion Revisited, by Charles Reed, my pen name (nom de plume, pseudonym), made not only to honor my paternal grandfathr Charles Reid, but also to honor all my ancestors on both sides of the family, Reid, Krogstad, Johnson, Stansberry and Henderson.
7. Common People Believing in False Ideas
Mitar said: But his holy writings will remain, and then people will understand how misled and deceived they had been.
Mitar's prophecy is similar to the one made by St. Columkille in the 5th century.
Towards the end of the world, the common people will believe in false ideas.
Mitar's prophecy is likewise similar to the prophecy of La Salette, France, made in 1846, that everyone will know how to read and write, but that bad books will abound upon the earth.
Bad books refers not only to pornographic novels with pictures and images, but also to books that promote false ideas, false religions, heresies, ideologies, etc. etc. These loathsome writings poison the minds of those who read them. The Catholic Church used to have an Index of Forbidden Books, in order to protect her children from this deadly poison.
8. Is the Prophecy Fulfilled?
The man from the north came. He wrote. He had many ups and downs. He endured the mild torture of being surrounded by hypocrites for 30 years. All that is over now. It is done. It is finished. Consummatum est.
There remains only the last sentence of the prophecy, which is about souls who have been deceived, about souls who have been misled.
These are the souls of which the Scripture speaks: the souls who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death (Luke 1:78). These poor souls have not yet perceived the light. They have not yet received the help they so urgently need.
For them, the prophecy of Mitar has not been fulfilled, namely, to understand how mistaken they have been.
Please pray for these poor souls sitting in darkness. They need the help of your prayers urgently. If you can, do a good work for them, perhaps by telling them about Mitar and his prophecies, or by giving them any good Catholic book.
At the hour of death and on the day of judgment, you will have the ineffable happiness of having saved, not only your own soul, but also the soul of a neighbor. Together you will sing the song of the redeemed, before the throne of the Lamb, in the company of all the saints for ever and ever. It is a happiness so great that it cannot be expressed with words. Please do what you can, to propagate good Christian books.
9. A Note about the Prophecy: His Writings Will Remain
The magazine Reflections had a section named "A Magazine for the Latter Times" in which were printed short letters that the subscribers sent us. In one of the letters, a lady commented that she was grateful for "the truth that shines forth from its holy pages."
In the rules of the Order, it was written that they should print a newsletter or magazine, "in order to send rays of truth into Catholic homes."
The members of the Order did not observe their rules well. After 30 years the Order collapsed miserably, and was toally disintegrated. It was like the shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe, with only one survivor. It was like a house built upon sand, like a house divided against itself.
After the collapse and shipwreck, Charles, like Robinson Crusoe, felt alone, miserable and abandoned. It almost seemed as if God had rejected him. But in the midst of his affliction, God sent him help. In particular, he sent him the means to continue writing, to spread knowledge, wisdom and the fear of the Lord, to save souls by prayer, suffering, the cross, and by written and spoken words. As it is written in Scripture, God opened doors for him (Apoc. 3:8), and gave him opportunities to do good works.
Charles is eternally grateful that Rev. Gauthier founded the print shop, with its books and magazine in English and Spanish. The effects of these sacred writings will last for all eternity.
On the day of judgment it will be said of them: "They sent rays of truth into Catholic homes."
His writings will remain...... forever.
And his guardian angel, and the guardian angels of his beneficiaries, will prise and bless God, for his infinite goodness and mercy, for ever and ever. Amen.
O sing unto the Lord a new song: for he has done marvellous things. -Psalm 97
Part II
1. Objections and Answers
2. Only Three Times in History
3. Notes About Scandinavia
1. Objections and Answers
Objection 1. Mitar was a member of the Serbian Orthodox Chruch, that is to say, a schismatic church. His prophcies might contain errors. To read them is a waste of time. It is more prudent to read books with an Imprimatur, already given approval by the Church.
Answer. Mitar's prophecies contain nothing contrary to faith and morals. They have had good effects on those who have read them. The prophecies of Mitar are not meant to entertain us with clever stories; they are a call to wake up. Turn off your TV or Youtube, read spiritual books, pray, pray. Women (and men too), stop wearing clothing of the opposite sex. Women, cover your head while at church; even Protestant women do that. There was a Protestant lady in Norway who in the 1950s had a vision of the future of her country and of World War III. She said it was going to be terrible, and she wept. There have even been rumors that Sweden will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrha, Pompeii, Krakatoa, and Hiroshima, because of the terrible immorality and fornication there.
Mitar's propheices are a call to wake us up from spiritual lethargy. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. If your TV or computer is an occasion of sin, get rid of it. If artticles of clothing cause you to sin, get rid of them. Women, dress like the Virgin Mary. Men, dress like St. Joseph.
If you are afraid that people will mock you for dessing with modesty, remember that they mocked and made fun of Our Lord.
The disciple is not above the Master.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
If obeying these heavenly words causes you suffering now, remember that later on, your suffering will be turned into everlasting joy.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: prudent is the conduct of all who practice it; his praise endures forever. Amen. (Psalm 110).
Objection 2. Charles Reed was not born in the far north, nor has he ever traveled there, having traveled only in the USA and Mexico, being too poor to travel long distances. If the prophecy were about him, it would read, A descendant of a man from the far north will come, etc.
Therefore, he is not the man mentioned in the prophecy.
Answer. St. John of the Cross wrote that God speaks in language different from ours, namely, that he gives a different meaning to words than we do. For example, in the book of Genesis he revealed that Jacob would go down to Egypt and would come back again. Jacob went down to Egypt and died there. He did not come back, until 400 years later, in the person of his descendants.
God speaks in a language different from ours. His thoughts are not our thoughts (Is. 55).
It was revealed to Joan of Arc that she would obtain victory over her enemies. She was given a trial, declared a heretic and burned to death. Her relatives thought that she had been insulted and wronged, and they requested a re-trial. It was held 20 years later, and she was declared innocent. God really gave her victory, but his meaning of victory is differnt from ours.
In the book of Psalms it was revealed that the Messiah will rule from sea to sea and that his enemies will lick the dust. The Jews and even the apostles failed to understand these prophecies, and thought that the Messiah would have a continuous triumph and not allow himself to be humiliated and despised. They forgot the words of Isaiah, that he will be numbered among thw wicked, will be led like a sheep to the slaugher, etc. They forgot that the Messiah will come twice, once in humiliation, and again with dreadful majesty and solemnity. They forgot that God speaks a language different than ours.
Therefore the prophecy of Mitar means: that a man, in the person of his descendant, will come from the north, etc. Four generations is a very short time to God, who has all eternity. And even when a child, Charles felt close to Scandinavia and the north, for he saw his Swedish grandmother every year, when she came from Michigan to visit his family, and she told him how she spoke Swedish, went to church where the sermon was preached in Swedish, etc. When at age 23 he learned about his great-grandfather Andrew, he was surprised and happy to know that he had come not only from Norway, but even from Trondheim, the most Catholic city of Norway, where St. Olaf had lived. Wth the zeal of a convert he learned about the Scandinavian saints, St. Catherine of Sweden, St. Anskar etc. He listened to the music of Edvard Grieg. He saw two motion pictures (Windjammer, The Song of Norway). He possessed a shortwave radio, heard broadcasts from many countries, and even received a QSL card from Sweden, with a drawing made by Swedish peasants, showing the prophet Elijah ascending into heaven in a chariot. He had brief encounters with three persons from Norway, two men and one woman (from Trondheim--amazing coincidence), and two men from Iceland. Charles did not go to the far north. The far north came to him.
2. Only Three Times in History
It has often happened that the mother or father of a saint received a revelation about the future destiny of their son or daughter.
The parents of Samson were visited by an angel, who revealed that their son was to deliver Israel from its enemies.
The mother of Samuel, Anna, received a revelation about the future destiny of her son.
The parents of the Virgin Mary, St. Joachim and St. Anne, received revelations about the magnificent destiny of their daughter, predestined to be the mother of the Messiah, the king of kings and lord of lords.
The parents of John the Baptist received revelations about the mysterious destiny of their son.
A pregnant woman in Ireland was visited by an angel, who revealed that her son was predestined to lead hundreds of souls to God. She gave birth St. Columkille (Columba).
The mother of St. Vincent Ferrer knew by revelation that her son was to accomplish great works for the glory of the Most High.
A pregnant woman in Poland had a mysterious mark appear on her abdomen. She knew by revelation that her son was going to be someone special. She gave birth st Stanislaus Kostka, who died at age 17 and was canonized later on.
And so forth.
Only three times in history has it happened that God revealed the sanctity or destiny of a soul, many years before he or she was born.
The prophet Isaiah had visions of the destiny and sanctity of John the Baptist, 700 years before he was born (Matthew 3:3, 11:10).
One day St. Teresa of Avila was traveling in Spain to make a new foundation of Carmelite nuns. She was in a town named Agreda. By inspiration from on high, she prophesied that a flower of sanctity would one day blossom there.
Fifty years later Mary of Jesus of Agreda was born, Mary of Agreda, who wrote the life of the most holy Mother of Jesus, who bilocated more than 500 times to the new world, and whose body is preserved incorrupt: a prodigy of sanctity.
Mitar Tarabich predicted that a little man would come, who would write words of salvation and grace, for poor deceived souls who were sitting in darkness and the shadow of death. Fifty years later the little man came into the world.
O God, who doest marvellous things, and incomprehensible, and wonderful things without number. Job 5
3. Notes about Scandinavia
1 Note about Windjammer and Song of Norway
2 Note about Charles' Baptism and St. Bridget
3 Note about Mission San Antonio and the Norwegian Visitor
4 A Sad Note about Relatives
5 Geographical Note
Note about Windjammer and the Song of Norway. Windjammer is a motion picture about the voyage of the Christian Radich, a training ship with large sails, used by the Norwegian Navy to train officers and cadets. They set out from Oslo, go to the Azores, to various ports in the Carribean, Trinidad, etc., to New York City and then back to Oslo.
One of the cadets was a pianist. Upon returning to Oslo, there was a concert at which the cadet performed Piano Concerto No. 1, by Grieg. During the performace were shown scenes of Norwegian landscapes, reputed to be among the most beautiful in the world.
The Song of Norway is a short biography of Edvard Grieg, the national composer; sometimes he used Norwegian folk tunes in his music. He was born in Bergen and died there. Bergen is located midway between Trondheim and Oslo.
Note about Charles' Baptism and St. Bridget of Sweden
Charles' 21st birthday occurred in September, but he waited a few weeks, so that he could enter the church under the patronage of Our Lady of the Rosary. He was baptized in October 7 in the afternoon, and made his first communion at a Mass celebrated at 5 p.m. He did not know it at the time, but that hour is also the first vespers of St. Bridget of Sweden, most illustrious of the Scandinavian saints, the only northern saint celebrated in the universal church. The other saints of Scandinavia are commemmorated only in some cities and dioceses. Thus he entered the church under the double patronage of the Queen of the most holy Rosary, and her beloved Scandinavian children, who will shine like stars through the endless ages of eternity (Dan. 12). Amen.
Note about Mission San Antonio and the Norwegian Visitor. Before joining the Order in Latin America, Charles worked for two years at the gift shop at Mission San Antonio de Padua, the most remote of the California missions, the only one not surrounded by a small or large city. In spite of being so isolated, many tourists come there.
One day he was in the gift shop and two college students entered, one with skin as black as midnight, accompanied by his fiancee, a young lady wearing pants with extremely pale skin and blond hair.
Reed asked the student where he was from, and he replied,
Lagos, Nigeria.
Reed commented, When I went to college, I had a roommate from Lagos, named Benjamin Akpati.
Well, it's a small world. I know Benjamin, the student replied.
Then Reed asked the young lady where she was from and she answered.
Norway.
What city? he asked.
Trondheim, she replied.
So many peole from foreign countries had already entered the gift shop, that Reed was not too surprised when he heard all this, although the coincidence was totallly bizarre, like someting in a novel or a motion picture.
Because of modern inventions, some parts of the world become cosmopolitan, and one gets accustomed to associating with foreigners.
Reed still remembers the persons he met at the mission, from the USA and many foreign countries.
O would that some of these souls could be saved!
would that these souls might know the joy of salvation, as he knew it!
But the salvation of souls is not given for nothing.
Someone has to pay for it.
Who is going to do it?
A Sad Note about Relatives
Christ said: A man's enemies will be those of his own household.
When Charles wrote that all his relatives opposed him, he meant: all his relatives, father, mother, one sibling, one aunt, and alas! even his Swedish grandmother. Only his maternal grandmother showed him some sympathy and kindness. He hoped she might become a Catholic; she never did. But at least she was better than the other relatives. For this reason he is just as proud of the Stansberry-Henderson side of the family, as he is of the Germanic-Scandinavian side.
Pachomius was worn of a pagan family, and was converted to the faith at age 18. He is famous among the desert fathers of Egypt as the author of a monastic rule, revealed to him by an angel.
One day Our Lord appeard to him and told him, "Your parents crucified me," referring to the fact that both father and mother remained obstinate in their paganism and mortal sins, until the very end, thus incurring the sad fate of those at the left side. (Matthew 25:33, 41)
Charles is profoundly grateful for the moral virtues of his parents; without them he could not have survived. But they were sadly lacking the theological virtue of charity -- without sanctifying grace, one cannot enter Paradise. He is proud of his relatives and ancestors who possessed faith, hope, charity and grace at the hour of death, and he hopes to meet them in Paradise, where together they will sing a song of thanksgiving, in the presence of the Lamb, for the endless ages of eternity. Amen.
Geographical Note.
Trondheim is 63 degrees north of the equator
The arctic circle is 66 degrees north of the equator.
North pole: 90 degrees N
Equator: 0 degrees
Above the arctic circle occur the phenomena known as the midnight sun, the arctic night, and the aurora borealis. There are about 100 small cities above the arctic circle, in seven different nations. The largest city is Murmansk, in Russia.
Note about Perseverance and Fortitude. Although the members of the religious order liked to study prophecies, none of them knew about those of Mitar. Charles did not know about them, until 14 years after the Order had collapsed.
During all those years, the prophecfy that helped him to persevere, was the one given at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, that in the end, the mother of Jesus, with her Son will triumph, that Russia will be converted, and that a period of peace will be given to the world.
He knew that in spite of all the sins and mistakes that were being made (including his own sins and miseries, already revealed and confessed in Mt. Zion Revisited), that in the end Christ and his holy mother would triumph, and what a triumph it was going to be!
Saints and seers have seen it in visions. A holy man in France said, the triumph of religion will be so great, that no one has ever see the equal.
Charles knew that it was worth suffering any trial, or enduring any humiliation (even if it lasteed 30 years), to obtain such a triumph, such a victory and such glory and happiness.
In the midst of his affliction and sorrow, these holy prophecies gave him hope and consolation.
This is my consolation in my affliction, that thy word revives me. -- Psalm 118:50
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Charles Reed's writings are available to anyone, free of charge.
* Writings of Charles Reed --- in Spanish ---
He is now 81 years of age and lives in southwest Mexico. He does not write much. Nearly everything that needs to be written, already has been written.
If you have questions, you may write to him at: [email protected]
Before writing, please read some essays or anthologies he wrote. Your question might be answered there.
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Laus Deo
May it be for the glory of God
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