(LifeSiteNews) — Today is December 17, the birthday of the late Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in 1936.

I can’t help but wonder whether we were given a prophetical warning about him through St. Faustina Kowalska, the great saint of Divine Mercy.

On the very day Pope Francis was born — December 17, 1936 — St. Faustina wrote the following in her diary:

I have offered this day for priests. I have suffered more today than ever before, both interiorly and exteriorly. I did not know it was possible to suffer so much in one day. I tried to make a Holy Hour, in the course of which my spirit had a taste of the bitterness of the Garden of Gethsemane.

The Garden of Gethsemane, of course, is the place where Our Lord was betrayed by one of His own apostles — Judas Iscariot.

That connection is, at the very least, sobering.