I Believe in Prophecy. Doesn't Mean I Believe I'm a Prophet

As, doesn't mean it. I don't believe that I'm a prophet.

A prophet is a very specific kind of writer who specifically on the occasions writes precisely what God dictates to him. Or shows him in a vision. I'm as little that kind of writer as Gilbert Keith Chesterton was. But St. Bridget was certainly and some say Maria Valtorta was also a prophet.

What would St. John of the Cross say about Maria Valtorta's writtings?
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It can be mentioned that the basis for canonising St. Bridget of Sweden was a minute examination of all of her prophecies (they fill volumes).

1) No unconditional prophecy could have been unfulfilled.
2) No prophecy could contain doctrinal error.

My friend Stephan Borgehammar and I were a few years ago discussing the identity of St. John the Beloved. In 1968, a French priest argued:

1) he couldn't be the son of Zebedee
2) but had to be a Cohen

with one of the arguments being an Asia Minor reference ("we have known John who wore the golden head band"). This leads to it being a Cohen Gadol. I suggested Theophilus, because that makes "the disciple who Jesus loved" a pun on his name (since we admit Jesus is God). He was against it, since St. Mary had spoken to St. Bridget and one of the words was "I loved John, because he was a virgin" (and Theophilus Ben Hanan had children). I suggested, after some F-search in the document, that his virginity is not as marked as that of St. John the Baptist, "a virgin who never ejaculated", but could have been a life in the virginal style, acquired after the marriage.

I just recently found a reason why Fr. Jean Colson could have been right not to limit the options to known High Priests of Israel. Zachary did the duty of a High Priest on Yom Kippur in Luke 1, but he's not listed. So, St. John the Gospeller could have been a lifelong virgin too.

When Acts 4 mentions And Annas the high priest, and Caiphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest. — Do you think "John" means Hanan Ben Hanan, brother in law of Caiphas, killer of St. James, or do you think it means a John who later made a coming out as disciple?

Fr. Colson obviously didn't think that the Johannine corpus was written by the Son of Zebedee. As I recall, the speeches of the Virgin to St. Bridget about John the Beloved, they do not include a reference to him being among the twelve, or son of Zebedee, but that could have been the poor choice of terms in my F-search.