by: Vicki Yamasaki, founder and chair, Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace Contact: CUP@corpuschristiforunityandpeace.org
“She was endowed with such extraordinary graces that only the Mother of God was more ornate,” Pope Leo XIII declared of Saint Veronica Giuliani, an 18th-century Italian nun whose life burned with divine love and suffering. Imagine her standing at the edge of Hell, arms outstretched, pleading with God to spare souls tumbling into eternal fire—her body pierced by unseen rays, her heart ablaze, her flesh marked by Christ’s wounds, the stigmata. This was Veronica, a Capuchin Poor Clare whose 22,000-page diary overflows with visions and messages from Jesus—warnings of lust, spiritual neglect, blasphemy, and pride that strike like thunderbolts into our distracted, indulgent world of 2025. “What the virgin Veronica wrote, certainly with the help of God, will be of great profit to those who study to acquire Christian perfection,” Saint Pius X affirmed, recognizing her as a beacon for souls seeking holiness. Her revelations, rigorously tested and approved by the Church after decades of scrutiny, feel tailor-made for our era, a lifeline amid the chaos of modernity.
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From childhood, Veronica gazed upon the Blessed Virgin in tender scenes—a bond that blossomed into a lifelong dialogue with Our Lady, who later stood sorrowful in her visions, mourning humanity’s sins. Born Ursula Giuliani in 1660, she saw the infant Jesus at age three, picking flowers with her and whispering, “I am the true flower,” as Mary smiled nearby, her gentle guidance a constant thread. At 17, she entered the Poor Clares in Città di Castello, embracing poverty and penance for the salvation of souls. Then, in 1697, the stigmata came—bloody marks on her hands, feet, and side, a mystical wounding of her heart that burned with love. She begged Our Lord to make her a victim soul, offering her agony for sinners like us, living Christ’s Passion in her own flesh. Her story, her hard-won credibility, and her warnings—echoing with Mary’s tears—demand our attention today.
A Life Tested by the Church’s Fire
Veronica’s visions didn’t win easy acceptance. In an age scarred by the Reformation, the Church approached her claims with fierce skepticism. Priests and bishops interrogated her, suspecting fraud or delusion. They bound her wounds, probed them with needles, isolated her from her sisters, stripped her of duties, and watched her every step. Her diary was confiscated, her reception of Communion curtailed. Yet she bore it all with humility, her wounds bleeding beyond explanation, her accounts unshaken. Doctors and theologians, summoned to debunk her, found no natural cause; slowly, her confessor and bishop glimpsed the truth in her torment. After her death in 1727, an autopsy revealed crosses and thorns carved into her heart—physical proof that silenced doubters. Her body, incorrupt to this day, stands as a testament.
The Church’s scrutiny didn’t end there. Investigations stretched over a century—beatification in 1804, canonization in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI—proving her visions no mere fantasy but divine truth. Rome’s seal came only after a grueling ordeal, a crucible that forged her credibility. Her diary, brimming with warnings from Jesus, unveils a Hell of “seven sites,” each a torment for specific sins, each a plea for repentance. These revelations, upheld by the Church, speak to us in 2025, where excess and irreverence threaten souls. Let us heed her voice, tested by fire and blessed by Heaven.
Warnings from Hell’s Depths
Negligence and Scandal by Clergy and Religious
Jesus entrusted Veronica with grave warnings about the responsibility of priests, confessors, and religious, whose sins ripple outward, endangering souls. In her visions of Hell’s “seven sites,” the second site tormented “ecclesiastics and prelates” who twisted the Faith, the third site held religious men and women who faltered, and the fourth punished confessors who failed to confront penitents’ sins. Christ wept over their negligence, showing her how their scandals led both themselves and others to ruin. This sin of omission—or worse, corruption—strikes at the heart of their calling, a betrayal Veronica felt in her own wounds. For those consecrated to God, the stakes are eternal, their failures a wound to His Church.
Sexual Sin: Carnal Sin Leading to Eternal Damnation
In Hell’s seventh and deepest site, Veronica saw souls who “wanted to live according to their own volition and have committed every sort of sin, especially carnal sins.” These, blackened by impurity, burned as demons jeered, trapped in a “big black ditch” of slime and vermin, gnawed and scorched yet never consumed. Christ appeared to her, His side pierced by “arrows of lust,” while Mary mourned purity’s loss. These acts—defying God’s design for human sexuality—were shown to her as a direct rejection of divine law, sins of the flesh turned souls inward, away from Him. The Church, after exhaustive review, affirmed her vision: carnal sin and lust, including fornication and sins against nature, results in eternal damnation.
The souls were “all mixed up together without any order,” yet each experienced their punishment distinctly, unable to escape the others’ presence or the overwhelming stench and chaos. Christ wept before her, His side torn by “arrows of lust,” while Mary, ever-present in her adult visions, mourned the betrayal of purity.
In 2025 this warning thunders. Pornography floods screens, child sex trafficking scars innocence, infidelity shatters vows, and ideologies of gender fluidity and homosexual acts defy God’s order. Veronica’s era didn’t split hairs — all fornication, carnal sin and impurity was grave in the Church’s eyes, and hers too. But her point, validated through years of scrutiny, was the cost: lust and carnal sin was the gravest of sins resulted in the lowest level of Hell as it is a clear violation of God’s divine and natural order. These damned souls are prioritizing personal desire over God’s design for human sexuality, thus succumbing to lust, a disorder craving for sexual pleasure outside its proper context. Her stigmata bled for this, her sainthood seals it. Her call to purity—tested and approved—isn’t prudish or restricting; it’s a lifeline.
Abuse of the Sacraments and Trampling the Blood of Christ
Jesus expressed profound sorrow to St. Veronica over those who scorn or misuse the Sacraments, particularly the Eucharist and Confession. In one vision, the Virgin Mary told Veronica that many “stomp on the Sacraments, scorn the Most Precious Blood of Jesus and they keep it under their feet,” referring to priests and religious who fail in their duties and Christians who live hypocritically. This sin was depicted as especially grievous because it involves profaning the means of salvation Christ offered through His Passion. Jesus warned that such actions, when unrepented, lead to Hell, as seen in her visions of clergy and religious suffering intensely for their negligence. In her vision, St. Veronica was shown that those who mistreat the Eucharist are, in effect, scourging and trampling upon Christ Himself.
St. Veronica Giuliani’s warnings from Jesus about abusing the Sacraments and “trampling the Most Precious Blood of Christ” resonate in 2025 with the practice of receiving the Eucharist in the hand. Permitted since the 1970’s in the U.S. it leads to desecration, as particles of the consecrated Host—Christ’s Body and Blood—may fall and be stepped on, echoing Veronica’s vision of sinners dishonoring Christ’s sacrifice. In parishes today, dropped Hosts due to carelessness or lack of training reflect this physical “stomping,” while a casual approach to reception, often standing rather than kneeling, is seen as diminishing reverence, aligning with Jesus’ lament over ingratitude for His Passion.
Compounding this, we have Catholics who now receive Communion who are in a state of grave sin— this mirrors Veronica’s visions of unworthy souls and negligent clergy facing Hell. In 2025, the view by many is that ‘all go to heaven’ may lead Catholics to approach the Eucharist unprepared, violating St. Paul’s warning in 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 against eating judgment upon oneself. We can see the decline of the lines for Confession alongside packed Communion lines as a spiritual trampling of Christ’s Blood, risking souls as Veronica foresaw. Though the Church permits receiving in the hand, with no homilies on receiving His Body and Blood worthily. Her call to penance challenges Catholics to restore awe and purity to the Sacrament.
Blasphemy: God Will Not Be Mocked
Blasphemy shook Veronica to her core, a sin she saw pierce Heaven itself. Souls who mocked God or His Mother faced torments, their words turned back as daggers upon them. The Blessed Virgin Mary, appearing often in her revelations, wept as Veronica witnessed the damned cursing their fate—scenes the Church examined and upheld as divine truth. Blasphemy, to her, wasn’t mere irreverence; it was a rejection of love, a wound to the sacred she felt in her own flesh.
In 2025, God’s name is a punchline in social media and in the streets; even voices like Jordan Peterson’s recently decried “Christ the King” as ‘hate speech.’ Veronica’s warning, authenticated by Rome, begs us to weigh our words. Her visions of Mary’s sorrow amplify the stakes: to blaspheme is to spurn the mercy offered through Christ. How often do our fellow brothers and sisters take the Lord’s name in vain? How often do they omit the Lord’s name in prayer? It’s a call to reverence we sidestep at our peril.
Pride and Rebellion Against God’s Will
Pride, the root of sin, loomed large in Veronica’s visions. Souls in Hell who “lived according to their own volition” rejected God’s authority, seeking their desires over His plan—a self-exaltation mirroring Lucifer’s falland echoed in human disobedience. Jesus showed her this leads to eternal ruin. In 2025, this rings clear: secularism exalts self-definition over God-given identity—gender ideologies and redefined marriage. This rebellion risks eternal separation from God if unrepented.
In the Church itself, sadly there have been liturgical and doctrinal shifts to modern practices—like receiving Communion in the hand or diminishing emphasis on penance. Clergy pridefully resist or remain silent on sacred Tradition rejecting scripture bending to cultural pressures. The support of legalized abortion and same-sex marriage further exemplify a collective rebellion against God’s law on life and natural law which we can liken to the “wickedness” Christ lamented in St. Veronica’s revelations. These acts of pride in 2025—choosing human will over divine order—align with Veronica’s warnings, Veronica’s call to humility urges us back to obedience, lest we face Hell’s depths.
Why She Speaks to Us Now
Veronica’s heart, marked with Christ’s Passion symbols at autopsy, rings out in her words. Canonized after a century of investigation—beatified in 1804, sainted in 1839—she did not scold mankind but loved them and suffered for them; her agony buying us time to repent. Her visions of Hell weren’t scare tactics; they were pleas: “Turn back, I’ve seen the end,” often delivered with the Blessed Mother’s tearful gaze upon her. The Church’s grueling process—probes, isolation, posthumous proof—confirms her authenticity. In 2025, as we neglect our faith, abuse the sacraments, wallow in carnal sin, mock the divine, and exalt ourselves, Veronica’s image looms inescapable.
Her last words—“I have found Love, Love has let Himself be seen”—is her gift. Her warnings, blessed by Rome, aren’t chains but keys: sin’s emptiness, sexual sin’s cost, blasphemy’s wound, pride’s fall—all unlock a life where adoring Him heals, repentance saves, and prayer binds us to Heaven. Guided by Mary from childhood to her last breath, Veronica saw through sin to Christ’s mercy. Her voice, forged in trial, asks: Will we listen?