Posted on 04/06/2005 11:21:00 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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.
Posted before, IIRC.
Way to go, Newsmax: how about reporting something that doesn't belong on The X-Files, huh?
Well, the next pope is supposed to be "Gloria Olivae" so I guess we'll see. That's commonly interpreted to indicate a Benedictine (Olivetan), but there's only one Benedictine cardinal and he's 93 years old - Cardinal Mayer of Germany. It's sometimes interpreted as a Jewish pope (since olive branches symbolize the Jews in the testaments) but the only cardinal that fits that description to my knowledge is Cardinal Lustiger of France (born Jewish).
The world of sin, sickness, disease, and death will end soon I hope. I pray every day for the end of this fallen world, because I know what will replace it is beyond our wildest imagination. Its the transition between the two that could be rough, if your not in the "secret place of the Most High." A time of great blessing and great judgment will be occurring simultaneously. The closer you walk to the Lord in this hour, the greater the odds you will be in that place of tremendous blessing, even entering in without passing through the grave.
http://www.osb.org/intl/confed/bishops.html
Looks like there is more than one! Here is a list of cardinals:
Paul Augustin Cardinal Mayer OSB born at Altötting (Passau) 23 May 1911; professed in the Abbey of Metten 17 May 1931; priest 25 August 1935; Abbot of Metten 3 November 1966; abbatial blessing 10 December 1966; Secretary of the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes 8 September 1971; named Titular Archbishop of Satriano 6 January 1972; consecrated 13 February 1972 at Rome, in Saint Peter's Basilica, by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, assisted by Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, Archbishop of Utrecht, and by William Cardinal Conway, Archbishop of Armagh; Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Sacraments and of the Congregation for Divine Worship 8 April 1984; Cardinal Deacon of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino 25 May 1985; Prefect of the Congregation for the Sacraments and of the Congregation for Divine Worship 27 May 1985; resigned as Prefect of both Congregations 1 July 1988; President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei from 2 July 1988 to 1 July 1991; Cardinal Priest of the Title of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino 29 January 1996.
ugh nevermind, that is just one, I have the IQ of a toad.
Maybe olive-skinned? South American or Chinese?
That's the description of Cardinal Mayer's offices through the years. The rest of the list are bishops and archbishops, not full cardinals.
There's been some vague speculation that the first non-Cardinal since 655 years might be elected pope, in which case there are a whole lot more Benedictines to choose from, and bishops of Jewish origin, and even at least one Benedictine of Jewish origin. We shall see!
The benedictine thing is a claim and tradition of the benedictines themselves, perhaps because they are also called "olivetans". The author of the prophesy himself never said it would be one of them. I have also heard it said that the original prophesy only listed 111 popes, and that 112 was added in an edition long after his death.
The more interesting factor is that there's only one or two popes left according to the prophecy, so I guess we'll know soon enough!!!
Spoken like a true Pharisee.
Matthew 24: 36.
That's all.
ping
*BUMP* ! I saw a link earlier on Google about a solar eclipse on Friday. Apparently, Pope John Paul II was born under an eclipse and will be buried when one is happening in the Pacific. I will try to find the link and post it.
This is sort of like Mark Twain, who was born the night Halley's Comet was first sighted over North America, and died the night it returned. Before his death he said, "I arrived with the Comet, and I shall leave with the Comet."
The world is a lot weirder than is written in the X-files!
VERY INTERESTING BUMP!!
"The world of sin, sickness, disease, and death will end soon I hope. I pray every day for the end of this fallen world"
Oh, my. Well, there ya go. Good luck with all that.
Yes, people do predict the end times, and it's always a waste of time, but Christians should know better-- in the gospel, Jesus Christ says that even he doesn't know when he will return (the whole end times thing), that only God knows that.
Besides, the end of the church of Rome, the last pope, doesn't necessarily mean either the end of Christianity or the second coming at all-- I think that it's entirely possible that it will usher in a new age of Christian unity, with new, worldwide and inter-denominational theological agreement and shared leaders. It could be a return to the early church community, like the Apostolic age-- in other words, a time of great spiritual renewal and a resurgence of evangelical Christianity.
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