OUR LADY OF THE ROSES - THE EARLY YEARS
August 1968. INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA (Veronica 1970 tape transcription, p. 30)
Veronica--Everything I'm telling you is written down, with dates, you can check that, I'm only going from my memory, trying to remember, but anyway, it was back in, I think it was September, 1968, I was walking down Springfield Avenue, and if I recollect rightly, it was a Monday morning. And, oh, was I frightened! There in the sky, you know, as I looked up, there appeared--the whole sky was covered by a black eagle. A black eagle! It covered the whole sky. That I wouldn't mind, but then this voice screamed at me, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth." So I was frightened. I ran into Landsdon's, the five and ten. I called my husband. he told me, "Well, don't get upset. Go on home and relax."
Well I got home and instead I got on the telephone. I wired Cardinal Cushing: "Cardinal Cushing please listen to me. I know you, you don't believe anything I tell you but listen to Theresa, not me, or someone. I saw a black eagle, and there's going to be a war some place, and you've got to DO something!" Well, instead, no one listened, and I also called Saint Robert's parish. See, all these two years I've been telling all these things, and nobody ever listens to me. So, finally the next day--I believe it was a Tuesday, if I remember rightly--Czechoslovakia was invaded.' And I knew exactly what was happening, but nobody cared....
1New York Times, Wednesday, August 21, 1968, p.1, "CZECHOSLOVAIGA INVADED BY RUSSIANS AND FOUR OTHER WARSAW PACT FORCES; THEY OPEN FIRE ON CROWDS IN PRAGUE":
"PRAGUE, Wednesday, Aug. 21--Czechoslovakia was occupied early today by troops of the Soviet Union and four of its Warsaw Pact allies in a series of swift land and air movements.
"Airborne Soviet troops and paratroopers surrounded the building of the Communist Party Central Committee, along with five tanks. At least 25 tanks were seen in the city.
"[Soviet troops began shooting at Czechoslovak demonstrators outside the Prague radio building at 7:25 A.M., Reuters reported. C.T.K, the Czechoslovak press agency, was quoted by United Press International as having said that citizens were throwing themselves in front of the tanks in an attempt to block the seizure of the city.]
"The Soviet move caught Czechoslovaks by surprise, although all day yesterday there were indications of new tensions."