Posted on 04/07/2005 3:09:27 PM PDT by kagoots
Prophecy on Pope Fulfilled by Eclipses?
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.
"u suppose that is what "olive" could mean? -not making joke here, I'm serious-"
You CAN'T be SERIES!
Would you mind sharing the name of the Benedictine Cardinal?
" Also, the misses far outnumber the hits."
no kidding
kind of like if you put 100 monkeys in a room with typewriters eventually they will produce shakespeare.
These things crack me up, you have ancient writings that are translated from ancient languages by intepreters who may see what they want to see. One book i had (published in 85) predicted that Spain Portugal and Italy would have sunk by the early 90s - Nostrodamus. As far as i know they are still there - go figure.
Pontius Pilate: He has a wife, you know. Do you know what she's called? She's called...Incontinentia. Incontinentia Buttocks.
Paul Augustin Cardinal Mayer OSB born at Altötting (Passau) 23 May 1911
Actually that makes him something like 94 years old, unless he passed away and the list hasn't been updated. That's too old to vote, but not too old to be pope. Well he has about 0 chance it seems.
I enjoy prophetic threads like this, and I refuse to apologize for it. I find it fascinating.
I could be Pope! Will not being Catholic hurt my chances?
St Malachy - born Malcolm Moore c. 2030 AD.
Earned PhD in applied quantum mechanics from CalTech c. 2055 AD.
Mysteriously disappeared c. 2060 AD.
Died Malachy O'More in 1148 AD, Ireland.
If the next Pope has olive skin, or a dark hue to his skin....or if his home village is known for olive trees (smile)....
Very good thinking! The only thing I could think of was the olive branch as a symbol of peace, though it seems strange to have a glorious peace just before the end.
Of course, a glorious time of peace could lead to...what is the word, not decadence, but...damn! The word escapes me but a prolonged period of peace can cause people to become fat and happy and not at all prepared once hard times come.
Of course, an olive skinned pope could usher in an era of unprecedented peace so one doesn't not need to preclude the other.
Oh yeah! This happened in an episode of Lexx where Gigaratta was made pope. Of course she was a female and probably not baptized, but Prince was more or less in charge of what happened on earth once Fire was destroyed.
LOL!! I love that movie!
LOL I guess I should have added the /sarcam addendum on that one, huh? What can I say? I'm a science fiction junky.
;-D
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" is also a hoot.
"Nostradamus said the world would end in something like 3700"
But then the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world for 2012. ;)
I forgot about that. Of course, before 2000, about every psychic you saw on TV said we wouldn't even make it this long.
Gloria olivae--- Glory of the olive ---- obviously it must be Cardinal Martini!! :-)
Mrs, Don-o
Hmmmmm? Let me guess. Because when most people see a Newsmax by-line, they click the back button and don't bother looking for all the other errors?
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