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Prophecy on Pope Fulfilled by Eclipses?
NewsMax ^ | Wednesday, April 6, 2005 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: eclipse; johnpaulii; malachy; pope; prophecy
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1 posted on 04/06/2005 11:21:00 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

Posted before, IIRC.

Way to go, Newsmax: how about reporting something that doesn't belong on The X-Files, huh?


2 posted on 04/06/2005 11:25:03 PM PDT by Terpfen (New Democrat Party motto: les enfant terribles)
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To: West Coast Conservative

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).


3 posted on 04/06/2005 11:27:51 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Terpfen
old news? oh, okay, I'll go back to reading my Left Behind books...
4 posted on 04/06/2005 11:30:21 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: West Coast Conservative

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.


5 posted on 04/06/2005 11:33:58 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Proverbs 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.)
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To: AntiGuv

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.


6 posted on 04/06/2005 11:36:55 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

ugh nevermind, that is just one, I have the IQ of a toad.


7 posted on 04/06/2005 11:37:25 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: AntiGuv

Maybe olive-skinned? South American or Chinese?


8 posted on 04/06/2005 11:38:54 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
Oh boy.

People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years because they can't see past their own mortality. They can't imagine that this world will go on spinning like it always has without them. Everything becomes a sign of impending doom.

The great thing about it is that it's a uniting factor for both the fringes. The far left believes it will be some sort of environmental disaster (brought upon by man himself) that will destroy life as we know it. The far religious right believes it will be some sort of punishment from God for the sins of man.

And the other thing they have in common is that for every single time they've predicted the end of the world, they've been wrong.

And they will continue to be wrong until they die, and then the world will go on spinning with nary a notice of their passing.
9 posted on 04/06/2005 11:41:05 PM PDT by flashbunny (Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
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To: Mount Athos

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!


10 posted on 04/06/2005 11:44:43 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

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.


11 posted on 04/06/2005 11:49:25 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

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!!!


12 posted on 04/06/2005 11:51:42 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
I pray every day for the end of this fallen world

Spoken like a true Pharisee.

Matthew 24: 36.

That's all.

13 posted on 04/07/2005 12:16:32 AM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")
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To: West Coast Conservative
Pope John Paul II was born during the longest partial solar eclipse of the 20th century on May 18, 1920. thus St. Malachy's description De Labore Solis/From the Toil of the Sun [Labore could also be Effort, Distress, Suffering, Trouble, leading to quite a few variations. The preceding is the usual translation.]
14 posted on 04/07/2005 12:17:30 AM PDT by paleocon patriarch ("Never attribute to a conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.")
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


15 posted on 04/07/2005 1:30:45 AM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans)
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To: West Coast Conservative

*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.


16 posted on 04/07/2005 3:26:17 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: Terpfen

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!


17 posted on 04/07/2005 4:27:35 AM PDT by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

VERY INTERESTING BUMP!!


18 posted on 04/07/2005 5:43:08 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

"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.


19 posted on 04/07/2005 6:36:48 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: flashbunny

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.


20 posted on 04/07/2005 6:46:37 AM PDT by walden
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