Nameless Children

9 February 2025

In her book, Beyond the Great Barrier, Stefania Caterina writes the following:

“The condition of aborted babies deserves to be dealt with separately. I would like to outline what I saw and what many of them, as well as Saint Raphael, said to me.

The souls of aborted babies are generally found in Purgatory, but their fate depends a lot on the answer that they give at the moment they are aborted. When voluntary abortions come about, these babies present themselves as sacrificial victims of the selfishness of their parents.

The aborted babies who introduced themselves to me have always clearly stated that their soul is perfectly capable of perceiving things from the moment of conception. It is capable of knowing its own condition and of clearly perceiving the reality of the surrounding environment in the maternal womb: hate, love, fear, etc.

Some of them do not accept their death in any way. They become aggressive and full of rancour towards the living. Others fall into a depression or into despair. Others, very few, offer God their death, becoming martyrs. These babies told me that they baptised themselves in their own blood, by virtue of their offering to God, and that they are in Paradise. I understand that the baptism of blood works by virtue of the total offering of one’s death and blood, combined with Christ’s Sacrifice. Apart from these rare exceptions, the majority of aborted babies that I have met, as I already stated, are in Purgatory. I have never seen babies in Hell.

It was explained to me that it is necessary for these babies to pass through Purgatory. They need to be healed of the deep wounds caused by their parents’ refusal, and of having experienced the impossibility of seeing the light. They must fulfil a journey of purification, which is sometimes painful. I met aborted babies who were truly crushed by sadness, by a feeling of inferiority, tormented by the idea of not being loved by anyone. They often told me that they are envious of babies who were born, especially their luckier brothers and sisters who were welcomed by their parents. In the more serious cases, I heard them accusing God of failing to defend them. All of this also causes many problems for the living, about whom I will speak in relation to the healing of the roots.

Aborted babies asked for baptism in a special way. One of their fundamental needs is to receive a name with baptism. The fact that they do not have a name causes them an immense sense of pain due to the lack of an identity. ‘Give me a name!’ This is a phrase that I have heard repeated countless times. They ask for a name so as to feel like people. In the majority of cases, they do not even know how to choose a name for themselves. ‘Give me a name!’

Apart from baptism, they ask for our prayers and they want us to be fathers and mothers for them. Many aborted babies have said to me that they consider me to be their mother in Christ, and that they consider those who help them to insert themselves into a life of grace to be their spiritual fathers and mothers. Aborted babies have an extreme need for their parents, who have failed to welcome them, to repent and convert and turn towards God. They need their love, their faith in God and hope. They feed on the life of their parents, if the latter are capable of offering themselves to God for these children. In this way, their parents re-acquire the fatherhood and motherhood they lost in flesh on a spiritual level. This facilitates the pathway of offering of aborted babies, and in turn, they help their parents.

From the experiences that I have had, I have been able to observe that if they accept the grace of baptism and forgive with the heart, aborted babies embark on a very fast journey towards God, as they are not burdened by the terrestrial experience. They thus become a host of chosen souls that is very imposing and of a great help to the living. They pray for us, and they generously exchange our love.

I personally experienced the help of their prayers. In a vision, I saw Our Lady on several occasions surrounded by the bright souls of these babies who entered Paradise. ‘Mary’s little martyrs’, as they like to call themselves.”¹