Quatrain 2.97Romain Pontife garde de t'approcher,
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Quatrain 2.97Romain Pontife garde de t'approcher,
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Posted: 2234 GMT (0634 HKT)
VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- Wearing traditional papal robes and a large smile, Joseph Ratzinger of Germany appeared Tuesday on a Vatican balcony as the 265th pontiff, Benedict XVI, as tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square to cheer him.
"Dear brothers and
sisters, after our great pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have
elected me, a simple, humble worker in God's vineyard,"
according to a translation of remarks he made in Italian. "I
am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how
to act, even with insufficient tools, and I especially trust in
your prayers. In the joy of the resurrected Lord, trustful of his
permanent help, we go ahead, sure that God will help. And Mary,
his most beloved mother, stands on our side."
He then delivered his first "Urbi at Orbi" ("for the city and for the world") papal blessing, after which the crowd in St. Peter's Square chanted, "Viva il papa," or "Long live the pope."
In Ratzinger's hometown of Traunstein, Germany, seminary students happily reacted to the news, according to The Associated Press.
But not everyone was enthralled with the selection. "It seems that he is too conservative. Hopefully the Holy Spirit can help him change," Jurandir Arauj of the National Conference of Bishops Afro-Brazilian Section told Reuters.
Once the archbishop of
Munich, Germany, and for many years prefect of the Sacred
Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Ratzinger has been one of
the most powerful men in the Vatican and is widely acknowledged
as a leading theologian. Ratzinger, who turned 78 on Saturday,
was John Paul II's chief theological adviser for 20 years.
As a young priest he was on the progressive side of theological debates but shifted to the right after the student revolutions of 1968.
In the Vatican, he has been the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on such issues as women's ordination.
The dean of the College of Cardinals since November 2002, he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Paul VI in June 1977.
On Tuesday, Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez announced Benedict XVI's election in the traditional Latin, but he prefaced it by saying the words "brothers and sisters" in several languages, an introduction that is likely a bow to the universality of the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.1 billion members.
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SPECIAL SECTION DEDICATED TO POPE JOHN PAUL THE GREAT IN PROPHECY
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Before discussing the rose prophecy of Quatrain 2.97 and the related Third Secret of Fatima and how either may apply to the newly-elected Pope, we are almost certainly obliged to address another prophetic issue I am sure is on the minds of everyone.
Although we must all celebrate the election of a new pope who shall replace the sad winter season of a great but slowly-dying pontiff with a renewal of spring for the Catholic Church and all of Christendom, we must, unfortunately, respect in dread the dark days ahead that may be in store for the entire planet. Indeed, it may be this pope who shall lead all of Christendom against the forces of darkness gathering in the East. But not without first offering an olive branch of peace to those who would trespass against us; for universal love may yet win out and confound the dangerous stratagems of evil men, of psychopaths, and of lovers of war, and of a vast subculture dedicated to death rather than life.
This is a pope who needs as much support
and aid as possible to achieve his mission. For this is also a man
who has been placed in terrible danger by a convergence of
prophecies and, unwittingly, by the very Church he serves. For it
has long been whispered in the Vatican halls that a Benedictine
shall lead when all the nations of Christendom are in grave peril
from the enemies gathering in the East. The author of this folly
was a 12th Century monk named St Malachy who conferred upon the
111th pope to come the motto of Gloria Olivae, which
translated means "the Glory of the Olive."
The order St Benedict founded, the Benedictines, is also known as the "Olivetans." Clearly, someone in the Vatican has gone to a lot of trouble to force the prophecy of Malachy to come true. Being a Benedictine is one thing, but having an elected pope take on the name of Benedict seals the prophecy.
This, after the shortest election conclave in Vatican history, leaves little room for doubt that this rite of passage was all planned out in advance.
The choice of Benedict almost guarantees that a world war is now looming on the horizon.
Why? The last Benedict, Benedict XV, became pope in 1914 just before World War I broke out. He spent the next four years trying to get the warring nations of Europe to mend their differences and end the most calamitous conflict in world history up to that time.
So, this tells us several things. The Vatican believes World War III is right around the corner. They want a pope in power who can live up to the name given by Malachy: "Glory of the Olives" -- a name which also signifies the role of the peacemaker (to this day "offering an olive branch" is a gesture of peace). Thus, they hope this pope, Benedict XVI, will be instrumental in bringing a quick end to the coming world war, preventing it from happening, or leading all of Christendom in the coming great conflict of good against evil where the West and Christianity will emerge victorious.
Unfortunately, two controversies become apparent due to an apparent clash between the prophecies of Malachy and those of the learned scholar, doctor, astronomer, and prophet Nostradamus.
One is no longer a controversy at all. There are too many popes -- at least seven of them -- prophesied for the future by Nostradamus. Too many to fit Malachy's abbreviated list of one remaining pope after Benedict XVI: Petrus Romanus ("Peter the Roman").
However, I have learned it has apparently become the Vatican's official position that there may be an indeterminate time (and presumably a number of popes) between "Glory of the Olive" and "Peter the Roman", whom they agree is the last pope.
The other controversy regards the proper designations of Malachy's mottos, De Medietate Lunae ("Of the Half Moon") and De Labore Solis ("Labour of the Sun").
I believe it is quite possible that John Paul the First was completely overlooked by Malachy because of his short 33 day reign and because his immediate successor adopted the same unusual papal name ("John Paul"). If true, John Paul II was really "Of the Half Moon," not John Paul I to whom it has, perhaps, been erroneously abscribed. Thus, Benedict XVI is actually "Labour of the Sun" -- with two more popes to follow: the real "Glory of the Olive" and "Peter the Roman" (or an indeterminite number of popes between Glory of the Olive and Peter the Roman).
The half moon or crescent moon is a symbol of Islam. Who can forget John Paul II's visits to the Holy Land during the Jubilee Year, hobnobbing with Bashar al-Assad of Syria and PLO Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, blessing Christians and Muslims alike in Lebanon, greeting Mohammad Khatami of Iran and Tariq Aziz of Iraq at the Vatican?? "Of the Half Moon" makes more sense than applying the dubious sobriquet of "Labour of the Sun" to John Paul II because he was buried during a solar eclipse.
But why does it make more sense? Because of what Nostradamus and the European prophets of old warn us will happen to a future pope:
Quatrain 2.41 There is no question there will be another "great" pontiff besides John Paul II, because Nostradamus describes one or more in his quatrains doing things John Paul the Great never did.
Is this "great Pontiff" Malachy's "Glory of the Olive" or "Peter the Roman"? It is hard to be sure. But If you really look at this quatrain, Q2.41, doesn't it look almost tailor-made for a pope whose motto would be "Labour of the Sun"? Because it says the "great star" will have such a cloud as to make "two suns appear"? Obviously it was not meant for John Paul II who is now dead.
Personally, I think this quatrain is really about another "great" pope who will witness this great star/two suns phenomenon on the night that he is forced to flee the Vatican and take up residence in the old papal castles of Avignon, France, where popes reigned in exile during the 14th century.
We will find scarcely any European prophets who do not agree with Nostradamus concerning the flight of a future pope -- those who bother to relate an entire view of the great global war to come anyway. It should be noted that this flight from Rome always occurs during the height of World War III -- just prior to the "three days of darkness" and the great horrors that follow.
Prophets like Alois Irlmaier and Erna Stieglitz agree that a pope will flee Italy when World War III comes to Europe. There is also an ancient prophecy that describes what may be the slowing of the earth's rotation, something that researchers abscribe to the gravitational force exerted upon the earth by an object like a brown dwarf star, something that "Planet X" is purported to be. Liber Vaticinationem Quodam Instinctumentis describes the sun "halting" in the heavens and terrible hot winds that will blow:
Norma 63:7For the third (world war), the earth
shakes,
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The fiery invasion of southern France is echoed in this ancient document authored by an unknown clergyman in AD 346. It presages three world wars that will directly involve Germany, the first two as an aggressor and the last as a defender of "the Empire" against the invaders from the East.
So, I think De Labore Solis could actually be the pope in question because this quatrain and other related prophecies sound like a true "labour of the sun" for any pope: a pope who must flee the Vatican when a great star burns so brightly that it looks like a second sun; when nuclear weapons and Fuel Air Explosives are bursting like deadly but beautiful "suns" on the horizon; and when southern France is ravaged by enemies and "the sun halts in its path" ... now there's a "Labour of the Sun" for you!
I fear the Vatican has forced a prophecy of peacemaker on to a man who may, instead, end up being the pope who flees Rome during the horror of nuclear world war and a terrifying flyby from Planet X.
They have been right to anticipate World War III, but I fear they did not consider a possible oversight by Malachy: that Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, is not "Glory of the Olive" but "Labour of the Sun."
Then again, what if Benedict XVI is not this ill-fated pope who must flee the Vatican when a double sun burns over a devastated land illuminated by weapons of "fire from the sky?"
One must wonder why the Vatican selected a reportedly ill, 78-year-old man who could die in a short time (one who suffered a brain aneurysm in 1991) to fulfill so great a role as that of a peacemaking pope during a world war that may not reach Europe until 2008 or 2009 ... and would likely drive him into exile and death. Could it be they are banking on the coming war and time immediately ahead as "the Tribulation" and thus preparing the way for Peter II (Peter the Roman)??
Now, one more observation before we proceed. This one may also explain the twelve popes predicted by Nostradamus who have yet to reign:
In order for Benedict XVI to be the 111th pope, Malachy would have had to count all of the antipopes as well.
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Three of these reigned at the same time. Most of them ruled during the reign of a legitimate pope.
Did Malachy really count the antipopes as legitimate heirs of St Peter and apply mottos to each of them? I doubt it. He was predicting an orderly line of legitimate papal succession. Half of these antipopes actually confused the line of succession and, of course, were not legitimate heirs of the Holy See.
That means there are 11 more popes remaining after the reign of Benedict XVI (maybe 12 if he did overlook John Paul I).
That is consistent with what I find in Nostradamus' prophecies. I can easily find ten (10) popes who have yet to reign. I have written an article about each of them on Nostradamus NOW Archives 1.
Now that the potential folly of strictly adhering to Malachy's prophecies has been revealed, we can focus again on Quatrain 2.97 (The Rose Prophecy) and the Third Secret of Fatima. These prophecies will either apply to the current pope or his immediate successor ... and we cannot be absolutely certain about which.
Normally one should not dwell on the demise of one such as the Pope, but appreciate the time here on Earth that is granted to him.
However, it is due to a number of dire prophecies by Nostradamus and the Third Secret of Fatima linking a future or current pope with a global war and a terrible comet, and due to those ancient prophecies of St Malachy we have already discussed that tell us only one more pope will succeed the newly elected one, that we maintain an abiding interest in Benedict XVI. And I dare say, this interest and angst will only increase as his pontificate progresses and on that day, may it be slow to arrive, when his successor appears on the world scene after he has finally passed on.
But before discussing these dire prophecies which are brutal and tragic to the dear person who is the Pope, be he the next-to-last or the final one to come, and of grave and terrifying consequence to All Humanity, we must above all things give him the support, spiritual and moral, that he requires, for never before has there been a pope placed in such a perilous position who is so in need of prayer.
It remains clear as ever that the prophetic verse that appears at top of page, Quatrain 2.97, inked by Michel de Notredame in 1554, is so remarkably similar to what was revealed concerning the Third Secret of Fatima as to be another facet of the vision. There is now no question that the vision contained in the Third Secret of Fatima was not fulfilled with the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981 as suggested by leading cardinals after the release of the transcript on June 26, 2000.
VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - Given below is the complete translation of the original Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three shepherd children at Cova da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:
"I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. "After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."
It has been declared that the May 1981 attack on Pope John Paul II's life in Rome by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca was the fulfillment of the Third Secret of Fatima.
This plainly cannot be the meaning of the Third Secret.
First of all, according to the translated text of the letter written by Sr. Lucia, "the Bishop dressed in White" is accompanied by a large number of bishops, priests, and nuns -- all of whom are killed along with the pope.
Secondly, and this is most important, the Pope visits a large (and probably major) city that is half-destroyed and littered with corpses. It is quite obvious that a major war, possibly a global war, is going on at the time.
The Pope and his clergy
are killed by soldiers.
The mountain with the rugged cross at its top may be an actual place, but I also take it to be a metaphor for the tribulation of the Holy Church and Christendom.
One viewer suggests it may be the hill of the Sacre Couer Cathedral. Another believes it could well be a hill in Avignon called Le Rocher des Doms and the cathedral at top.
The sprinkling of souls with the blood of the martyrs by angels may be the sealing of the 144,000 of the tribes of children of Israel as described in the Book of Revelation. If not, it is something that will precede that event and involve the blessing upon the faithful.
We are introduced to a new figure -- what may be an angel of the Apocalypse described as "an Angel with a flaming sword." He is actually introduced well before the appearance of the Bishop in White. Mary stays the world-consuming fire from his hand. This suggests that nuclear war has nearly occurred in the recent past but was prevented by Mary's intercession and prayer.
Since the vision clearly states that the "Bishop clothed in White" (the Pope) will be slain along with "the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious" by soldiers firing bullets, I submit to you that this is remarkably similar to Quatrain 2.97 which warns a future pontiff that both "you and yours" will "come to spit blood" in a city watered between two rivers. Even though, by miracle, the late Pope John Paul the Great was spared during the attack on his life by Mehmet Ali Agca a quarter century ago, this does not explain why he alone was attacked when the Third Secret states that the Bishop in White will crawl over the corpses of his entourage and followers. This is also what Quatrain 2.97 indicates when saying "both you and yours."
Because the pope is described as being "afflicted with pain and sorrow" one might conclude that this is a frail and elderly pontiff. However, we cannot discount the possibility that the "pain and sorrow" is a result of the terrible war and persecution to come.
I have little doubt that events described in Quatrain 2.97 and the Third Secret of Fatima will happen. And if events are as pre-destined as they appear to be in the Third Secret of Fatima, then all the warnings in the world will not save the Pope or those who will be slain with him.
Let us review the quatrain again:
Quatrain 2.97Roman
Pontiff beware of your approaching,
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Quatrain 2.97 suggests that some anti-Christian leader, likely an Al Qaeda leader, will order the Pope and everyone in his entourage to be gunned down during a visit to an important river port city. According to Nostradamus they will bleed from the mouth due to internal hemorrhaging. The prophecy also states that the deadly visit will be scheduled to take place in the spring or summer: "when blooms the Rose." An alternative meaning of "the Rose" will be explored below. Obviously, Benedict XVI or his successor, whom many believe will bear St. Malachy's motto Petrus Romanus ("Peter the Roman"), must avoid extensive traveling to cities that match the profile provided by Nostradamus or the Blessed Virgin in the Third Secret of Fatima. Not only will the Pope be assassinated but so too will all clergy people accompanying him.
I should add once again that, although Malachy predicts only one more pope after Benedict XVI, Nostradamus appears to predict at least another seven future popes. Not only that, but it has apparently become the Vatican's official position that there may be an indeterminate time (and presumably a number of popes) between "Glory of the Olive" and "Peter the Roman", whom they agree is the last pope.
Anyway, to demonstrate how easily Quatrain 2.97 could have been fulfilled during the reign of Pope John Paul the Great, consider the following:
On October 16, 1998, it was reported that Pope John Paul II was planning to visit Iraq ("the land between two rivers") in the summer of 1999. The original version of this web page was created in the early spring of 1999 to warn that such a trip might prove dangerous to the Pope and those close to him. In July 1999 it was revealed that he hoped to make a pilgrimage to the ancient city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, and meet with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. That visit was postponed until December 1999 and then re-scheduled for January 2000.
Thankfully, on December 10, 1999, it was announced that the trip had been canceled.
Again, during the Jubilee Year, the Pope expressed a desire to visit Baghdad and the ancient city of Ur, and again what might have been a May 2001 trip was canceled.
I am convinced that the Pope narrowly escaped what would have been a likely assassination attempt, probably at the behest of Osama bin Laden, had any of the planned trips to Iraq moved forward in 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2003. It is very strange that so many attempted trips to Iraq were cancelled -- in one instance at the request of the United States government.
Were he alive to visit Iraq now, it would be incredibly dangerous -- dangerous beyond belief. Needless to say, Pope Benedict XVI must also refrain from visiting such a perilous place.
As discussed above, "the Rose" may simply be a seasonal dating clue, indicating late spring or summer as the time the Pope will be in danger of the Fatima prophecy.
Then again, "the Rose" appears in several other Nostradamus quatrains and is used in a far more mysterious manner, as with Quatrain 5.96: "The rose above the middle of the great world."
Thus, it could signify something of a mystical nature ... or an actual person: the late Princess Diana.
England's
Rose. I have long established a possible connection
between the Pope and the late Princess of Wales because of the
"rose" clue in the final line of Quatrain 2.97.
There is a seperate prophecy by Nostradamus that suggests a time will come when an apparition of Diana will be seen by millions of people at her island grave at Althorp. This may begin a time when what Nostradamus calls "the Temple of Diana" will become a new religion or Diana will be made an Anglican saint. It may well be that when this apparition appears, or the new church or sect begins attracting followers, that will be the time the Pope is assassinated.
Click here for a four-section presentation on the relationship of "the rose" to Princess Diana, a new Paris memorial garden opened in her honour, and Countess Sophie of Wessex, her look-alike.
In November 1999, a critical dream vision emailed to me by Conor concerning Pope John Paul II, Benedict XVI, or his successor and the late Princess Diana has suggested what may well be a psychic connection between the two -- one that I believe may establish Paris or Avignon as the city of this pope's or the next's doom. To view this vision open a Dream Window.
The Mystical Rose. The lady who is associated with "the Rose" and who appears in Conor's dream may instead be the Virgin Mary. If the day of the Rosa Mystica is taken literally, the Pope or his successor may be assassinated on the specific dates of July 13, 2008 or July 13, 2009. Click here to learn more of the Rosa Mystica and its possible relationship to Quatrain 2.97.
Unfortunately, we can only speculate about this city.
However, knowing Nostradamus, his style, and prophecies as well as I do, I believe the city must either be in Iraq or in France. There is no question that the clairvoyant saw many important future events taking place in Mesopotamia -- a region he was quite concerned about and predicted would be a major battleground in a future war (which it has become since President Bush launched the Iraq War in March 2003). Although both Syria and Iraq make up this part of the world, he is more specific when he identifies the Mesopotamian nation as being "a land between two rivers" (obviously the Tigris and Euphrates).
This can only apply to Baghdad or another city in Iraq.
As for France, Paris is watered by the two major rivers Seine and Marne. The holy mountain then, as suggested by a viewer, may well be the hill of the Sacre Couer Cathedral. Paris also is the city of Diana's death and now the site of several Diana shrines of great significance.
Another French city that figures prominently in Nostradamus' quatrains concerning France and the Vatican is Avignon. It lies within the V formed by the rivers Rhone and Durance.
According to the Third Secret of Fatima, the city will be half-destroyed. In the case of the continuing conflict with Iraq, this certainly makes sense. As for Paris or Avignon, the French prophet warns that war will spread there as well.
The holy mountain of Avignon, as suggested by another viewer, could well be Le rocher des Doms which looks a lot like the one of prophecy.
As for the cross at the top of Le rocher des Doms, it likely belongs to the Cathedrale Notre Dame des Doms.
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Unfortunately, Nostradamus does not say. Aside from the possible season of late spring or summer, a year is not given. Nor is there any planetary alignment contained in Quatrain 2.97 as a dating clue. Likewise, the Fatima revelation, as much as we know, reveals only that such an event will occur at a time of major, probably global, war (unless the half-destroyed city is in ruins due to a massive terrorist attack).
I believe that history repeats itself (more or less) at intervals of seven years and multiples of seven years. I call this mathematically-based theory "base 7 numerology" (although it is not true numerology, but a mathematically-contrived system).
The key to the future, in other words, lies in the past. History truly does repeat itself, yet not always exactly.
I use real historical events, their months and years, as the index or precedent(s) for the projected future event. I also use real prophecy and close observation of current events to calculate in what direction we are heading. I find that to the year I am usually between 71% and 91% successful with my predictions.
So, according to my base 7 system of numerology, when might the new pope be in danger?
Some things are hidden from us, however perfect God's number 7 may be. There are some events we are meant to be confused about, and that we cannot be allowed to tamper with .. for better or for worse. Yet, it is surprising the many things we are allowed to know about in advance ... and to change or at least postpone. Evidence of the number 7, and multiples thereof, working through diverse historical patterns and trends is more plentiful than one man alone can possibly predict. Often I discover, after it is too late, that yet another "base 7" historical repetition has played out.
Still, some things are intended to be hidden. All of these projections of past events repeating again in some fashion in the future and the dating "vectors" for them are merely "windows of opportunity." That is all they are: opportunities for an event to happen again in some way. Yet, by anticipating the future through the study of past events and repetitive trends, these projections can fulfill the same function as prophecy.
I believe Pope Benedict XVI could
succumb to natural causes as early as August-October
2006
-- an important base 7 numerological annivversary (4 x 7) of the
deaths of Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, and Pope John Paul II's
ascension to the Holy See in 1978. Yet another vector, albeit a
weak one, appears in October 2007 on the forty-ninth
anniversary of the death of Pius XII when the pontiff might die
of natural causes. If not, he may prevail until May 2009 and die at Avignon
during a Moslem attack on southern France, having fled Rome some
time prior.
Mark the 2009 dating well, because if Pope Benedict XVI should die of natural causes in 2006 or 2007, then it will be his successor, Petrus Romanus or one of the intervening popes not foreseen by St Malachy, who is killed at Avignon in May 2009.
But here is an additional problem (and warning): If world events fly out of control sooner than anticipated, this death of a pope by military hands near Avignon could happen sooner: during the said August-October 2006 vector.
Quatrain 2.97, by itself, reads like a papal visit gone horribly wrong. It sings with a sense of peacetime in spring or summer, with roses abloom, perhaps with what may be a beautiful apparition of Diana occurring at the same time in England -- all shattered by the crackling guns of assassins.
However, in sharp contrast to this scenario is the Third Secret of Fatima which says the city will be half-destroyed, apparently by war, and that the visiting pope will bless the dead bodies of the inhabitants before he and his ENTOURAGE are killed BY SOLDIERS.
The entourage is the detail that links the two prophecies. Nostradamus says "both you and yours" to the pope who will die, thus indicating others accompanying him will also die.
In a series of frightening quatrains, Nostradamus describes an invasion of southern France via the Pyrenees and from the port at Marseilles. It culminates with nearly a million dead French civilians killed by "fire from the sky" as they flee northwards toward Lyon (which is also captured by the enemy). I believe the cause of the "fire" will be Fuel Air Explosives, sometimes called the poor man's nuclear bomb. The devastation from FAEs is nearly as horrific as that caused by atomic bombs, only without the radiation.
This southern advance I believe will be led by Iranian ("Persian") and "Median" allies of Moscow (Iranians, Kurds, and Moslem groups from the former Soviet Union such as the Azeris and Abkhazians). Meanwhile, Russian forces will press westward into Austria and Germany from the former Warsaw Pact and north into Scandinavia.
One of the quatrains deals with the fate of the Pope, whoever he is, at the time of the invasion. Nostradamus calls him "Paul the celibate," thus indicating he might not be Benedict XVI:
Quatrain 8.46Paul
the celibate will die three leagues from the Rhone
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We were able to rule out an August 27, 2003 dating for the above quatrain when global war failed to occur at the time Mars achieved its closest opposition to earth in 60,000 years. Therefore, Nostradamus could only be writing of Mars in its usual role of the God of War. Dating the quatrain astronomically is not possible and it could take place any time in the future.
As I mentioned above, I can only arrive at two potential base 7 vectors for a murderous attack upon any pope: August-October 2006 and May 2009.
Thus, according to Quatrain 8.46 above, a pope who flees Rome will die nine miles (three leagues) from Tarascon, in Avignon. Interestingly enough, Avignon is situated in the V formed by the rivers Rhone and Durance. He is literally between two rivers.
Diana, the possible "rose" of Quatrain 2.97, died in northern France, in Paris, watered by the rivers Seine and Marne.
So there is an interesting symmetry here: northern France for Diana, southern France for Benedict XVI or his successor.
So Quatrain 2.97 apparently happens during a time of war, just as the Fatima vision suggests.
The fiery invasion of southern France is also echoed in an ancient document authored by an unknown clergyman in AD 346. Entitled the Liber Vaticinationem Quodam Instinctumentis, it presages three world wars that will directly involve Germany, the first two as an aggressor and the last as a defender of "the Empire" against the invaders from the East:
Norma 63:7For the third (world war), the earth
shakes,
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It is then said that the norma will die "when the wolf (Germany) is hacked to bits."
According to Nostradamus many of the towns and cities in this region, such as Carcassonne, Comminges, Foix, Auch, Mazeres, Nice, Frejus, and Antibes will be attacked by enemies with weapons that bring down "fire from the sky."
During this invasion, the Pope dies approaching Le Rocher des Doms. Nearly a million French will die along with him or be taken captive:
Quatrain 1.72All of the inhabitants of Marseilles
are changed,
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Citizens of Marseilles are pursued by Islamic forces as far as the major French city of Lyon 150 miles to the north. The southern cities of Toulouse and Narbonne are sacked, and the total number of French killed or taken prisoner fleeing 'the awful winds' of atomic and FAE (Fuel Air Explosive) attacks are 1,000,000.
In any event, I must lay out this scenario, if not as a warning to Benedict XVI, then to the man who follows after him.
You see, the pope who follows may very well return to the line of Paul or John Paul (Paul VI was the last Paul pope, then John Paul I and John Paul II followed) and call himself POPE PAUL VII or POPE JOHN PAUL III ("Pol Mensolee" = "Paul the Celibate").
Yes, it is possible an 11th Century abbot, among other prophets, foresaw the coming of a cardinal named Ratzinger who would become pope. Lost among the many prophecies of Europe during the last 2,000 years is one that may indeed apply to the current pope:
"Whose name shall begin with R." Is there any question that the name RATZINGER begins with the letter "R"? Yet this appears to be about the pope who, in most prophecies, comes to power near or at the end of World War III along with "the Great Monarch" (whom Nostradamus names "Chiren" in the quatrains).
Then again, perhaps the "great Pontiff" comes to power before the great and terrible war begins and the "Great Monarch" (who is usually French) does not take action and defeat the enemies from "the East" until near the end of the war. Thus, speculation as to whether this monarch will be French president Jacques Chirac (Chiren?) or an as-of-yet unknown figure named "Henri" or "Henry" will remain a subject of debate until this leader destined to be the "first king" of Europe drives out the Eastern armies. However, if he is to be a descendent of Pepin the Short, he would have to be of Carolingian blood, long thought to be extinct.
Upon this issue of the "great Pontiff" many prophecies are in contradiction: some say the wartime pope flees Rome and dies in exile, there is no pope or only antipopes for a few years, and then another pope (the "great Pontiff") is elected and installed at the end of the world war; others say the wartime pontiff flees Rome, goes into temporary exile, and is restored to the Vatican when the war ends.
Which shall it be?
It is possible, therefore, for Pope Benedict XVI, like Benedict XV during World War I, to reign throughout World War III and crown the French president or a new monarch of France as emperor at the conclusion of the coming conflict.
On the other hand, there is a lengthy (too lengthy for this page) prophecy by Merlin that would suggest that Benedict XVI might come to be regarded as a "German Anti-Pope" after which another pope is restored as "true Pope" by the French monarch near the end of the war.
Note that Merlin somewhat contradicts Joachim who says the Pope will select the great Monarch and restore him to the long vacant imperial throne of the Charlemagne empire. Here it is the monarch who restores the Pope. Also, in this instance, the pope from Germany is called an "Anti-Pope." Time will tell.
Although the following quatrain alone does not identify who "the great Pontiff" may be, it is important in setting the stage for one that does. Note that a time will come when the Pope has his own army. No pope has had a real army of his own since the 16th Century. And since this prophecy was never fulfilled during the 16th Century, during or after the death of Nostradamus, it must be futuristic.
Apparently the Cardinal Legate will be taken hostage at sea by terrorists ("pirates"), troubling a shaky peace. The European Union will double the size of the Pope's private army, indicating he already has had one for some period of time.
Again we see a new pope with a private army. During the latter stages of World War III, he will order a task force into lower Germany, Austria, and the former Yugoslavia to drive out what foreign forces still remain in these countries. War criminals will be pursued and captured, weapons confiscated, prisoners released from death camps, and valuables restored to the survivors.
Note that in line 3 the Pope is associated with the "crooked cross of iron": Nostradamus' description in other quatrains of the Nazi swastika. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler youth and served in the German army for two years before deserting to America. For this reason, I believe this quatrain, at least, and possibly Quatrain 5.44 above, are about the German Pope Benedict XVI and events yet to come in the near future.
Now for those of you looking for a real "Black Pope" quatrain that may apply to Benedict XVI, Quatrain 6.16 is it. Not only that, but it tells us the Pope will be a German:
Quatrain 6.16
If Benedict XVI is the pope who flees the Vatican, it is to France he will likely find refuge. One would not expect his route to run from Rome through the south along the dangerous Mediterranean through Monaco and northwards to Avignon from Marseilles. These regions are the ones that will come under seige and attack by the southern wedge of the Eastern army. Rather, his route would likely be via Milan in Lombardy (northern Italy) to Swiss Ticino (also called Tessin), westward through the Alps, and into northeastern France. Whether he goes south to Avignon or not is difficult to say, but if he does he will die there.
It is even possible this is not connected with the pope who later dies in Avignon, but merely a temporary papal "trip" to northern Italy.
Here we see the Pope and all of his black-robed clergy sheltering in Lombardy. Nostradamus calls this pontificate "the temple of the Black Forest." Thus, we have both a "Black Pope" quatrain and one that identifies the Pope as being from the Black Forest in Germany.
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The Name of the RoseNostradamus may be providing the pontiff with a double clue as to the time when he and his entourage may be gunned down by assassins. "When blooms the rose" not only indicates the season of summer but the July 1 to August 31 period when the memory of Princess Diana, "England's Rose" is honoured each year at Althorp, London, and the tunnel in Paris. |
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In what may soon be a literal fulfillment of line 4, "when blooms the rose," a memorial garden dedicated to the late Princess Diana is now open to the public in Paris. As the accompanying photo shows, roses will be a major feature of this latest of shrines. Since Nostradamus was often pre-occupied with events in France, it is quite unlikely that this event would have went unnoticed by him. The flowers begin to bloom each and every May. Will this Pope or the next visit Paris "when blooms the rose?"
Diana memorial garden opens in ParisFebruary 14, 2001 -- PARIS, France (CNN) -- A garden dedicated to the memory of Britain's Princess Diana has been officially opened in Paris. French officials say the flower beds -- France's official memorial to the Princess -- will eventually bloom, providing a place for children to learn about flowers, plants, vegetables and respect for the environment. But critics have scoffed at the project, laid out in a school courtyard, dubbing it "1,000 square metres of leeks." "Through this place I wanted to pay tribute to a woman whose generous heart showed her deep fondness for nature and human relations, particularly with children," Paris mayor Jean Tiberi said as he opened the garden on Wednesday.
Diana -- the former wife of Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles -- died in Paris in August 1997. She was in a car which crashed at high speed while being pursued by photographers. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, were also killed. But Diana's name is the only one featured on a plaque outside the memorial garden, in the central Marais district of Paris. One local councillor complained that the princess deserved a grander honour than a "vegetable plot." But British officials have enthusiastically endorsed the site. "There could be no better tribute to her memory than a garden where young children can play and learn about nature," said Michael Jay, Britain's ambassador to France.
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is yet another clue. On June 19, 1999,
Prince Edward married his sweetheart of six years, Sophie
Rhys-Jones, age 34. Because of her uncanny resemblance to the
late Princess Diana, the British and American media began dubbing
her "the new Di." Will she one day be nicknamed
"the new Rose?" Did Nostradamus, noting the physical
resemblance between the two women, think of Sophie as a sort of
resurrection of Diana -- England's Rose literally blooming again
in 1999, 2000, and the first decade of the millennium? As Sophie,
the new Rose, finds herself increasingly an object of media
interest, the Pope must continue to exercise caution.
The following event occurred near the occasion of the marriage of Prince Edward and Sophie, Earl and Countess of Wessex:
June 21, 1999 -- Pope John Paul II fell while visiting towns in southeastern Poland on June 12, 1999. He suffered a mild contusion that required three stitches. Fortunately, none of the places he visited were "watered by two rivers." On June 15, the pope was bedridden in Krakow with flu and a high fever -- forcing him to cancel all planned appearences in Poland that day. Although still unwell, he recovered enough to continue with his visit the following day and is now in good health. Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones, "the new Rose," were married on June 19 -- seven days following the pope's fall, four days following the fever.
On November 8, 2003, Countess Sophie of Wessex gave birth to a baby girl, Lady Louise Windsor, by emergency Caesarian section at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey. It is the first child of Prince Edward and Countess Sophie (or Sophie Wessex as she prefers to be known).
Only a month before, on October 2, 2003, reports surfaced that Pope John Paul II was gravely ill. Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn announced that Pope John Paul was nearing death -- one of several top churchman to ring alarm bells about the state of the pontiff's health.
"The whole world is
experiencing a pope who is sick, handicapped and dying -- I don't
know how close to death he is -- who is approaching the last days
and months of his life," Schoenborn told Austrian radio.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, an influential German prelate who
heads the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
was quoted as saying by German magazine Bunte that the pope was
"in a bad way" and called on the faithful to pray for
the pope.
Likewise, the final hospitalisations of the Pope in February and March 2005 nearly coincided with the February announcement by Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles of their engagement to marry in April 2005. This triggered a new surge of support for the memory of Princess Diana among her fans and worshippers. Also in March 2005, when the Pope was hospitalised for the last time, Sophie and Edward announced they would attend the wedding and Sophie gave the engagement a "thumbs up" in an interview in a German tabloid.
I suspect this to be further evidence of the dangers facing any pontiff whenever Sophie or the memory of Diana becomes the focus of major media attention.
In regards to Sophie (rather than Diana), I believe "the rose" is only a dating mechanism created by Nostradamus -- a juxtaposition of two unrelated events occurring about the same time. I seriously doubt that any direct or "psychic" connexion between Sophie Rhys-Jones (now Sophie, Countess of Wessex) and the late Pope John Paul II was ever intended.
UPDATE (October 8,
1999) -- The British media has recently reported that
Prince Charles is grooming Camilla Parker-Bowles to be the next
Princess Diana. Sparing no expense, Camilla has duplicated her
hairstyle, clothes, and has even had oral surgery in an attempt
to recreate Diana's beautiful and engaging smile. However, the
public knows much better: Sophie is winning the hearts of
millions, just as I predicted she would. Furthermore she has an
effortless and uncanny facial resemblance to England's Rose.
Camilla may need to cut off a toe or a piece of heel to get
Cindrella's slipper to fit, but for Sophie the shoe slides on as
gently as a glove.
Like Diana, Sophie reportedly is already being roundly criticised by some members of the royal family, including Prince Charles, for many of the same traits Diana had: her independence, spunk, and charisma. Recently, in an effort to change her into a docile royal housewife (a role temporarily forced upon Diana), Queen Elizabeth scolded the 34-year-old Countess of Wessex for continuing to run her own public relations firm, telling her she must choose between her business or her role as royal wife. Sophie reportedly straightened the queen out on the issue of whose life was whose in true Diana style.
It is indeed unfortunate that Edward and Sophie are not next in line for the throne. However, after having said that, I would hate to see William deprived of his rightful place as King of Great Britain one day.
However, great things are in store for Edward and Sophie in the years ahead that will tower much higher in power and prestige than the throne of Great Britain.
Sophie displays her effortless elegance
hellomagazine.com
10 MARCH 2005
On the eve of her husband's 41st birthday, the Countess of Wessex was a standout royal guest at a lunch reception for the Wellbeing of Women Charity in Regents Park on Wednesday.
The busy mother-of-one, who carried out more than 180 engagements last year, showed she's undoubtedly looking fabulous at 40, the landmark age she hit in late January. Sophie was as radiant as ever at the luncheon, simple and elegant in a black V-neck top paired with a sparkling multi-strand necklace.
And as her spouse Prince Edward begins the second year of his 40s, he might be wise to follow the philosophy of his graceful wife. "Apparently 45 is the new 25," she said on her birthday, "so I feel great."
See The Early 21st Century: 2007 - 2016 for more on the future of Edward and Sophie as Emperor and Empress of an European empire yet to be formed.
I must say in conclusion that there can be no real substitute for Diana -- she is gone and the world is a darker place because her light was extinguished. Still, as time rolls on, I feel England will recapture some of that light; and Countess Sophie is definitely going to be one of this firmaments' shining stars.
As much as I dislike having to do this, my assertion that Nostradamus used "the Rose" to represent Princess Diana will hold no water unless I discuss a quatrain that seems to indicate that her death would be linked to a conspiracy. Only after Diana's death did I understand this prediction, because it had been many years since I had heard her called "England's Rose" -- for so very long she had been "Di," "Lady Di," "Princess Di," or simply "Diana" to her adoring fans and admirers.
Quatrain 5.96Above the middle of the great world,
the rose,
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Diana was the most famous and glamorous woman in "the great world." If the second line does apply to her, she was killed because of "new deeds": possibly her affair with boyfriend Dodi al-Fayed. The French authorities have frustrated the international public which adored Diana by being tight-lipped about the investigation. It is doubtful they will ever "speak the truth," perhaps because French secret police were involved in the murder plot. The last line remains a mystery, unless it refers to the tardy coronation of an aging Prince Charles. Then again, if the "awaited one" is a spiritual leader, it could refer to Pope Benedict XVI. It must be noted that Pope John Paul II's funeral was held exactly 7 years and 7 months after the funeral of Princess Diana. The election of Benedict XVI may be coded by "will come late" as the time between funerals. |
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In a recent letter from a
visitor to this web site I was enlightened on yet another
connexion to the rose. The Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, has
also been called the Rosa Mystica (Mystical Rose) since her
appearances in Montichiari, Italy in 1947 and 1968.
The writer states that she thinks "that the 'blooming of the rose' could very well be the acceptance of her many calls to Prayer, and Penance for the sake of World Peace. The number of Reported apparitions has skyrocketed in the last forty years or so and if a small percentage are real then this will truly be what even secular media have called The Age of Mary."
According to one web site dedicated to providing information on Mary as Rosa Mystica:
"Since antiquity the rose was considered a symbol of mystery. For early Christians the rose is a visual expression for paradise (Catacombs of Callixtus, 3rd century) but also for martyrdom (Cyprian, Ep. 10). The Marian interpretation of this symbol dates to the 5th century (Sedulius Caelius). He is probably the first to call Mary a 'rose among thorns' (Carmen paschale II, 28-31).
Frequent Marian references to rose and rosebush were made in medieval times with special reference to Isaiah 11,1 ('...a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse / and from his roots a bud shall blossom.').
Medieval authors had a second source for their use of mystical rose: the verse from Sir. 24, 14 ('like a palm tree in Engedi, like a rosebush in Jericho') which makes reference to God graced fertility and growth, again a reference to the mysterious generation of Christ from the womb of Mary.
It is based on these two traditions that the expression rosa mystica was coined by the author of the Litanies of Loreto, and subsequently used in hymns ('Es ist ein Ros...') and art (center of the labyrinth of Chartres)."
I have also uncovered something else of interest in my research. Another, more specific meaning may be found regarding the "blooming of the rose." Since Montichiari, some Catholics celebrate July 13 as the Day of Mary.
Therefore, if an actual month or season is being referenced by Nostradamus in association with someone named "the rose," in a strange way it might not matter whether we mean the Virgin Mary or Princess Diana. For Mary, the season is summer, specifically the month of July (and more specifically July 13). For Diana, the season is also summer, and July/August marks the Althorp season when her life is reflected upon -- from her birth on July 1 to her death on August 31.
If Rosa Mystica is the key to Quatrain 2.97, and the Day of Mary is the clue to the "blooming of the Rose," then Pope Benedict XVI or the one who follows him may be assassinated on a specific date: July 13, 2008 or July 13, 2009.
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The passing of Pope John Paul the Great, the third-longest living pope in all of Vatican history, the period of mourning, the grand public funeral, and the historic election of Pope Benedict XVI, was the only major news story during the month of April 2005.
One can easily recognise the career of John Paul II in the following quatrain:
Quatrain 5.56Because of the passing of the very
old Pontiff,
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Lest we forget, because of the natural death of the elderly Pope Paul VI (and the short one-month reign of Pope John Paul I, not mentioned in this quatrain), a pope of "good age" -- 58-year-old Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla -- was elected. The new pope, taking the name John Paul II, was youthful and vigorous when he first came to the sacred office in October 1978, a former sportsman, mountain climber and football player, and an active skier and swimmer.
He was (and is) a very controversial pope whose ideas were and are not always popular in the Vatican. To some he had been seen to have failed in reforming the Catholic Church itself, maintaining extremely controversial policies on contraception and homosexuality until quite recently, whilst failing to arrest a decline in congregations (again, until quite recently). This is likely what Nostradamus means by his being "accused of weakening the Holy See." On the other hand, the Pope has always been consistently and universally praised for attempting to build greater understanding between Judaism, Islam and Christianity, visiting more countries than any previous pope, and promoting non-violent revolution against oppressive regimes, especially communism.
The last line is painfully obvious: John Paul II has held the papacy the third longest of all popes in history, with "stinging effort" indicating the assassination attempt on his life in 1981 by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca, an attempted stabbing by a knife-wielding Spanish priest in 1983, and his continuing endurance whilst suffering from the ravages of arthritis and Parkinson's disease.
This quatrain does not speak of death at all -- but of a long life!
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It would appear that the following Nostradamus prophecy below also applied to the late Pope John Paul the Great. Even so, there are certain specifics in the quatrain that have yet to play out. So only Time will tell for certain.
The Pope was indeed "dispersed" in the night, just as I maintained he would be:
Lines 1 and 2 inform us there will be a comet that will begin or end as a circumpolar object when the Pope dies. Such a comet did arrive this year and ended up, at low naked eye visibility, in Ursa Minor. It remains there still; however, it has faded to a binocular, small telescopic object. Comet Machholz first became visible in the southeast in December 2004 and brightened to magnitude 3 when it crossed near Castor and Pollux and the Pleiades in January 2005. For those who enjoy dark skies very far away from city lights (10 to 50 miles away depending on the size of the city), Machholz appeared like smaller version of the greenish-blue comet Hyakutake that appeared spectacular even to city dwellers back in March 1996.
If Machholz is the comet of prophecy, it makes all the more sense that this was the time for the Pope to succumb to catastrophic illness and old age.
What will be happening in Italy and Greece is not altogether clear. Greece will likely become a part of a major Balkan conflict prophesied by a living Austrian prophet from Kremms, the Seer of Waldviertel, and also prophesied by Nostradamus. This Balkans conflict is to occur during a terrible war in the Middle East. As for Italy, civil war or revolution in that country is also prophesied to begin shortly after.
Then again, the references to Greece and Italy could relate to a rash of deadly earthquakes or escalating acts of terrorism by Al Qaeda and other groups in both countries. Nostradamus specifically predicts unprecedented terrorism for Italy from those who once worshipped the ancient gods of Hannibal (Tunisia and Libya) and from the direction of Babel (Iraq) before the coming of a great and terrible world war.
What else could be meant by "the night dispersed" besides the time of day when the Pope would die? It could mean a dispersal of "night" worldwide by extraordinary means.
Perhaps, unknown to us, "Planet X" is finally closing in on Earth. Earthquake and volcanic activity has been increasingly violent and almost unprecedented. It is now said that the ancient super-volcano Toba will reawaken and erupt in the Pacific, unleashing enough fire to burn away 30% or more of the planet's forests and grasslands in a rain of super-heated plasma and produce enough ash to plunge the world into a "nuclear winter." Ever larger meteor sightings and collisions are also on the increase, suggesting we may be entering a debris field or "tail" belonging to this celestial body. Therefore, the "it" that "appears towards Ursa Minor, the Tropic of Cancer, and the bearded star (Comet Machholz)" may be the brown dwarf star of myth and antiquity, Nibiru, also regarded by many to be the Wormwood of Revelation.
As I have mentioned before elsewhere, if we are to be visited by such a nightmare as ancient Nibiru, the prophet Mother Shipton warns we will be thrashed by the "dragon's tail" twice. The red dragon star's first passage, an inbound one, will be the least destructive of the two according to Mother Shipton. The outbound passage, almost forty years later, will wipe out at least 5/6 of humanity, reducing the global population to "such a tiny band."
Then again "the night dispersed" could be a poetic way of saying that the papal policies of the Pope's long career will be dispersed on the night of his death. This would then suggest that his successor will be a quite different person who will change many of the Vatican's positions on various social and international issues.
Pope John Paul II: "De Labore Solis" or "De Medietate Lunae?"
According to the 12th Century prophet St Malachy there are only two more popes to follow Pope John Paul II: "Glory of the Olive" (supposedly the newly-elected pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI) and lastly, "Peter the Roman." The now-deceased John Paul II was supposed to have the motto: "De Labore Solis" or "Labour of the Sun." Many prophecy commentators thought that meant John Paul would undergo many tribulations during the late 20th Century, also called the Century of the Sun in astrology. Otherwise, the motto was a mystery and Malachy's predictions potentially unreliable.
As if to prove the motto was correct, there was a partial eclipse of the sun in southern Europe during the funeral on Friday, April 8, 2005. And there is more evidence suggesting John Paul the Great was "Labour of the Sun" according to the following article from NewsMax:
Prophecy on Pope Fulfilled by Eclipses?
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 3:55 p.m. EDT
A 10th Century Irish bishop - St. Malachy - predicted every pope that would preside over the Catholic Church. Almost ten centuries ago, Malachy predicted this pope would be noted by an eclipse of the sun.
In an eerie coincidence, John Paul II was the only known pope to be born on the day of a solar eclipse.
But the prophetic link doesn't end there. Pope John Paul II will be buried this Friday during another solar eclipse.
Astronomers say that on Friday, the day of the Pope's funeral, a partial solar eclipse will blot out most of the sun and darken a wide area of the world, from the South Pacific to the Western Hemisphere.
Solar eclipses are not unusual. But what makes this coming Friday's eclipse notable is the fact that there was a near total eclipse of the sun seen across Europe on May 18, 1920, the very day that John Paul II was born in Poland.
Adding fuel to the arcane speculation about these events is the prophecy of St. Malachy. Malachy was discovered to have left behind a prophetic list of all future popes beginning with Pope Celestine II, whose papacy began in 1143 A.D., up to and including the 112th. The list includes John Paul and just two more popes who will follow him.
In his list of popes, he uses a single line in Latin identifying a characteristic of each pope.
The description applied to the 110th pope on his list - John Paul II - is "De Labore Solis" (Of the Solar Eclipse), which seems to add great weight to the validity of St. Malachy’s chilling prophecy: that the next two popes chosen to succeed John Paul II will be the last popes.
After the reign of the last pope, "Peter the Roman," St. Malachy wrote, Rome will be destroyed.
As NewsMax.com reported April 3, Saint's Prophecy: Only Two Popes Remain, the 112th prophecy says, "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will reign Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman), who will feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city [Rome] will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people," an indication that the world will end.
Not mentioned in the above article is the legend of the 111th pope -- "Glory of the Olive."
Still, a few thoughts have occurred to me regarding Malachy. Did he count the antipopes as popes? Probably not (which means Benedict XVI is the 101st pope after Celestine II, not the 111th).
Also, regarding De Medietate Lunae which was supposedly applied to the extremely short-lived Pope John Paul the First. 33 days is an awfully short period of time. Is it possible Malachy overlooked John Paul I but saw only John Paul II? After all, "John Paul" was a most unusual name. If so, then that would make "Of the Half Moon" John Paul II's motto and not "Labour of the Sun."
It would apply very well to Pope John Paul the Great. Here is why: both the half moon and crescent moon are symbols of Islam. John Paul II was the first pope to visit the Muslim and Arab nations and open up friendly relations between them and the Vatican. Of course, the Jubilee Year was the zenith year of this embrace of Islamic nations by John Paul II (who also greeted Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and Iraqi Prime Minister Tariq Aziz at the Vatican and condemned the then-pending US war in Iraq).
The Sun Pope and the Moon Princess Another matter regarding the moon is a linkage between the late Princess Diana (Diana, Goddess of the Moon) to the Pope.
It is well-known that the Roman goddess, Diana (Artemis in the Greek pantheon), was the goddess of the Moon. Thus, Princess Diana, because of this namesake, is also associated with the moon. Indeed, Nostradamus makes much of this in a few of his prophecies.
Her star and his star rose together, nearly side-by-side. She died in Paris at the zenith of her popularity in August 1997 -- shortly after John Paul visited Paris himself. Not long after her death, John Paul II, almost by default, found his health and his powers moving steadily in decline, then accelerating downhill after 2000.
John Paul II's funeral was held exactly 7 years and 7 months after the funeral of Princess Diana!
Yet another good reason for John Paul II to be given the motto "Of the Half Moon."
So, if this is true, then there are still two popes remaining after the current one, Benedict XVI, who would then be Labour of the Sun and not Glory of the Olives.
Of course, if the 10 antipopes were not
counted by Malachy (and I doubt they were), this would have made
John Paul II the 100th pope after Celestine II, rather than the
110th. Thus, he would have had whatever motto was applied to Pope
Gregory XVI (1831-1846).
Still, Pope John Paul II could yet be associated with the sun metaphorically, as a complement to Diana's moon. Christianity is often associated through symbolism with the sun. Apollo was the Roman sun god and the son of Jupiter. He overthrew his Jovian father (Paganism) and spawned the modern age of Man (Christendom).
However, the late poet and author Robert Graves argues in his book, The White Goddess, that Apollo is synonymous with the age of science, a sterile god who, by usurping the pantheon of the Gods and their one King, has destroyed man's natural association with the supernatural. Thus "divine" intervention is required (the Muse according to Graves, or from a Christian perspective, an angel, the Virgin Mary, etc).
Pope John Paul II was the first pope to make his working devotion to the "woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet." To some this is Mary; to others it is a woman persecuted by the forces of Satan who is about to give birth to a man-child to reign as the "Son of Man." This woman could have been Princess Diana; and is likely to be still another woman in the future who will succeed in delivering this long-awaited child.
Thus, the pontificate of John Paul II seems to have been symbolised by both sun and moon.
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Original Mission of This Web Page:
How Pope John Paul the Great Narrowly Escaped Being the Slain
Pontiff of Quatrain 2.97
On October 16, 1998, it was reported that Pope John Paul II was planning to visit Iraq ("the land between two rivers") in the summer of 1999.
The original version of this web page was created in the early spring of 1999 to warn that such a trip might prove dangerous to the Pope and those close to him. In July 1999 it was revealed that he hoped to make a pilgrimage to the ancient city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, and meet with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. That visit was postponed until December 1999 and then re-scheduled for January 2000.
Thankfully, on December 10, 1999, it was announced that the trip had been canceled.
Again, during the Jubilee Year, the Pope expressed a desire to visit Baghdad and the ancient city of Ur, and again what might have been a May 2001 trip was canceled.
I am convinced that the Pope narrowly escaped what would have been a likely assassination attempt, probably at the behest of Osama bin Laden, had any of the planned trips to Iraq moved forward in 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2003. It is very strange that so many attempted trips to Iraq were cancelled -- in one instance at the request of the United States government.
Were he alive to visit Iraq now, it would be incredibly dangerous -- dangerous beyond belief. Needless to say, Pope Benedict XVI must also refrain from visiting such a perilous place.
A Base 7 Prediction Fulfilled
I believe that history repeats itself (more or less) at intervals of seven years and MULTIPLES of seven years. I call this mathematically-based theory "base 7 numerology" (although it is not true numerology, but a mathematically-contrived system).
The key to the future, in other words, lies in the past. History truly does repeat itself, yet not always exactly.
I use real historical events, their months and years, as the index or precedent(s) for the projected future event. I also use real prophecy and close observation of current events to calculate what direction we are heading. I find that to the year I am usually between 71% and 91% successful with my predictions.
In the appendix of my book, Nostradamus
and the Final Age, I indicated that Pope John Paul II might
be in danger during the base 7 vector of June/July 1998. On May 4, 1998, three
days after I mailed my manuscript out to Llewellyn Worldwide,
Alois Estermann, the second-in-command of the Pope's Swiss
Guards, was slain by a disgruntled non-commissioned officer.
Estermann's wife, Gladys Romero, was also shot to death by
Cedrich Tornay who afterwards turned the murder weapon on
himself. All three died; blood flowing from their mouths. It was
the worst tragedy to befall the Swiss Guards in over five hundred
years.
Then on August 29, 1999 -- once again during the season of the rose -- another death plagued the Vatican. The suicide of a worshipper who managed to smuggle a gun into St. Peter's Basilica raised security concerns for the Church and Vatican City four months before the start of the Holy Year. The suicide claimed to be both Christ and Michelangelo.
Benedetto Minnini of the port city of Bari, shot himself in the mouth on the afternoon of August 24 while the basilica was crowded with tourists. A woman videotaping inside happened to catch the suicide on tape, and apparently was the first to alert authorities. Blood flowed from yet another mouth for the second year in a row -- and during a predicted August-October 1999 vector.
One must remember Nostradamus' warning to the Pope: blood will not only flow from his mouth, but from those close to him ("both you and yours"). That is why the main focus of Quatrain 2.97 remains unfulfilled, despite commentators who insist that it is to be applied to Pius VI who died of acute enteritis at Valence in 1799. Pius did not "approach" the city (implying an act of volition), which is indeed watered by two rivers -- he was captured and taken prisoner there. Yes, it was reported that he vomited blood; however, no one in the pope's company died in a similar fashion. Indeed, the pope died alone.
Using my base 7 system yet again, I warned that Pope John Paul might be in danger were he to travel abroad in May 2002, twenty-one (3 x 7) years after the assassination attempt that seriously wounded him.
Here is what happened in May 2002:
Bulgaria on alert for pope's visit -- Security scare as man rushes pope
May 23, 2002 Posted: 2:48 PM EDT (1848 GMT)
SOFIA, Bulgaria (CNN) -- Ailing Pope John Paul II has arrived in Bulgaria for his first papal visit to the country, where all its 27,000 police have been put on duty or standby. It is hoped his four-day visit will heal wounds with the former communist country which was once implicated in the 1981 assassination attempt against the pontiff. The trip is also aimed at bringing a reconciliation of Christianity's eastern and western churches.
The pope praised Christians in largely Orthodox Bulgaria for their resistance to communist-era oppression. The 82-year-old pope, who has looked ever more frail recently, had the strength to make impromptu remarks in Italian after his official speech, thanking Bulgarians for his welcome joking: "The pope is an old man and that's why he is sitting down," while he gestured to Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, who stood by his side during the arrival ceremony.
He urged Bulgaria to retain Christian values as it undertakes difficult social reforms in the push to convert the still deeply poor ex-communist state to a market economy, Reuters news agency reported. He also remembered the victims of east Europe's authoritarian regimes. "Even during the long winter of the totalitarian system, which brought suffering to your country... numberless children of this people remained heroically faithful to Christ, in not a few cases to the point of sacrificing their lives," the pope said. The hard-line communists who ruled Bulgaria from World War Two to 1989 repressed both majority Orthodox Christians, around 80 percent of the 8 million population, and the 80,000 Roman Catholic minority in the name of atheism.
On arrival in Sofia, the pope was carried down the steps of the plane on a lift and his usual ritual of kissing the tarmac on disembarkation was substituted for his blessing a pot of soil lifted to his lips. He was then ferried to the airport terminal on an electric platform. The tour is likely to be a strain on an ailing pope who has been forced to jettison some of his traditional rituals during the two-country tour of Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.
During the first-stage in Azerbaijan, the pope escaped a security alert when a shouting man on crutches rushed towards the altar where the pope was presiding over mass.
Security officials told journalists the man said he wanted to have his picture taken with the pontiff. The situation resolved itself and the man later received a blessing from the pope. The pope survived an assassination attempt 20 years ago in Rome for which three Bulgarians were tried for suspected complicity in the shooting by a Turk but cleared by the Italian court through lack of evidence.
Pope John Paul has said he has "never ceased" to love the Bulgarian people.
Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi is quoted by The Associated Press as calling the visit "a blessing," adding: "This visit will wipe out the undeserved taint Bulgaria has carried for the past 20 years." Helicopters made low sweeps over the capital and army snipers took up positions around the airport as the pope arrived at about 6 p.m. local time on Thursday.
The pontiff, who first visited an Orthodox country in 1999 when he travelled to Romania, is likely to use his Bulgarian trip to renew his call for a reunification of Christianity's eastern and western Churches, which split in 1054.
He is scheduled to visit an Orthodox monastery near the southern town of Rila and hold an outdoor mass in the southeast in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city.
As well as meeting Patriarch Maxim on Friday, the pope will also meet leaders of the one million Bulgarian Muslims and the country's tiny Jewish community, which numbers between 7,000 and 8,000, some of whom worship at the world's largest Sephardic synagogue in Sofia.
He also plans to beatify three Roman Catholic priests who were executed in 1952 after being convicted of spying by the then communist regime.
The pope arrived in Bulgaria from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku after a two-day trip during which he gave mass for all 120 of the country's registered Roman Catholics -- mostly expatriates.
And again, only five days after the end of May:
Pope caught in Vatican bomb scare
June 5, 2002
VATICAN (CNN) -- Pope John Paul II has been caught up in a bomb alert after a man threatened to blow himself up at the Vatican.
The man, who is believed to be mentally unstable, was reported to have phoned a local television station warning that he was about to carry out a bombing at St Peter's Square on Wednesday. The 45-year-old Italian was arrested carrying a hoax bomb -- empty tubes with dangling wires -- after shouting accusations against local politicians, Reuters news agency quoted police as saying.
The pope was holding his weekly general audience at the time, but it is not known how close he was to the incident.
The suspect, who police say has a history of psychological problems, was believed to have been protesting at corruption in his native southern Italy.
He had told the TV station that he was about to blow himself up outside the Vatican post offices in the square, but in fact he made his way to another part where pilgrims were queuing. The man was screaming out that he wanted to meet journalists and magistrates to talk about the alleged corruption.
Police sealed off the area and temporarily stopped the flow of pilgrims into the square before preparations were resumed for the audience.
On page 2006 I indicated that I believed John Paul II might hold on and finally succumb of natural causes sometime in August-October 2006 -- an important base 7 numerological anniversary (4 x 7) of the deaths of Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, and Pope John Paul II's ascension to the Holy See during the same period of 1978.
However, around March 23, 2005, I realised that I had overlooked posting another vector -- one which had disturbing implications -- that indicated the Pope would instead succumb to natural causes around June/July 2005 on the 42nd (6 x 7) anniversary of Pope John XXIII's death on June 30, 1963. This vector was quickly posted to this page on March 24, 2005 and then to the 2005 (Part Two) page on March 31.
This, as it turns
out, was the correct vector and only off by two months and
twenty-eight days.
Bear in mind that when this June/July 2005 vector was posted on this page on March 24, Vatican officials wer