Malachi’s prophecy about the future popes
Saint Malachy (1049 – 1148) was a 12th century Irish priest who had predicted the number of future Popes with amazing accuracy. Saint Malachy gave each Pope a short descriptive motto in Latin such as: Ex Castro Tiber (The castle on the Tiber River). Supposedly, Saint Malachy had a vision of the future lineage of the Popes, so he wrote it down and gave it to the Vatican.
A Belgian priest, Arnold de Wion, supposedly found the original Malachi manuscript in the Vatican and included it in his book. Lignum vitaewhich was published in 1595.
Opponents argue that Malachy’s list is a forgery made by Arnold de Wion some 447 years later. However, Malachi’s (or Wion’s?) prophetic motto describes each Pope quite accurately even after the year 1595.
There are two versions of Malachi’s list: one contains 111 and the other 112 Popes. The list of future popes ends with number 111 (or 112 if we consider another list), and critics argue that it was not Malachi, but someone else who put the 112th pope on the list many years later. This is possible, because the list had been kept unnoticed in the Vatican archives for more than 400 years. After its rediscovery, Vatican authorities said the list had been false.
The last Pope, however, is not numbered, so the motto over Petrus Romanus (whom some scholars consider to be the last 112th Pope) may just be a continuation of the previous motto (Gloria Olivae).
The list of Popes that Malachi had predicted can be found on Wikipedia in English.
Critics also say that Nostradamus created the list because he wanted to avoid persecution, and could also use de Wion as a disguise.
The motto of the last Pope (Petrus Romanus, either the 111th Pope characterized as Gloria Olivae and expanded with another motto; or the 112th Pope, but not listed as other Popes) is: In extreme persecution, the see of the Holy Roman Church. it will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep in many tribulations; when they finish, the city of the seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible or fearsome Judge will judge his people. The end.
“The city of seven hills” can be anything, even the world system as we know it. There is also uncertainty about the word “persecution”. Arnold de Wion used an abbreviation “psecutione”, which means both persecution and duration of time: “prosecutione”. Malachy’s original list ends with number 111 (with the tagline: Gloria Olivae).
Pope Benedict XVI is known to come from the Olivetan order, which was founded around the year 1313. Pope John Paul II, 110th of the order, is described with the motto Labor de Solis (From the Work of the Sun) and was from fact born on the day of the solar eclipse.
The name Petrus Romanus is not on Malachy’s original list.
Nostradamus’s prophecies are written in verses, which are very difficult to understand, and their interpretation can have a hundred directions. An argument in favor of the idea that Nostradamus disguised himself as Malachi is the time when Malachi’s prophecy came to light: in the year 1595, shortly after Nostradamus’s death (1566). The second argument is that Arnold de Wion lived at the same time as Nostradamus and they were able to know themselves.
black dad?
Malachy says nothing about Black Pope, but a quatrain (C6Q16) in the book the prophecies written by Nostradamus may indicate the arrival of a black Pope:
The one that will take the young Falcon,
For the Normans of France and Picardy:
Black Forest Temple Place Blacks
It will make inn and bonfire of Lombardy.
Nostradamus’s prophecies are divided into centuries (time cycles). It is clear from the verses above that Nostradamus spoke in riddles. The term “Black Pope” does not come from him, but from people who tried to decipher his prophetic quatrains. However, Pope Benedict XVI has a black man on his coat of arms (known as Caput Aethiopum in heraldry). Scholars are still not sure of the origin of it. The Bavarian district of Freising (Germany) uses as a symbol the head of a crowned black man since 1316. Some scholars say that Caput Aethiopum symbolizes Balthazar, one of the Magi (Three Wise Men or Wise Men from the East who visited Jesus after your birth).