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. Malachys 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.
Ahhhhhhh!
LOL!!!
Or,...was it 'turned it forward'...?
And, what of those lost days wrought by Pope Gregory????
"Of course, before 2000, about every psychic you saw on TV said we wouldn't even make it this long."
Very true.
And I'm speaking as a person who was caught overloading her shopping cart at the local Safeway on New Year's Eve, 1999. :)
We had enough bottled water and boxed macaroni & cheese to last for a very, very long time. ;)
"Read post 48. Malcolm Moore turned the clock back when he reached the 12th century."
Oh, my goodness. I did just read post 48.
I need to put in an emergency message to Art Bell. I'm so confused, LOL!
Sorry, but you're wrong.
The standard Latin for solar eclipse is labores solis. Look it up in the dictionary.
It's been a long time since my Latin classes, so someone more knowledgeable might correct me on this, but I think that solis is just the genitive of sol, i.e., " the sun's", so it's just a difference of the "sun's labor" as opposed to the "labor of the sun." Sounds OK to me.
Also, considering that we only have about 2 of any kind of solar eclipses per year, partial or otherwise, the probability of having solar eclipses on both of two randomly selected days, is about one in 33,000, which lends a whole lot more weight to the story than you suggest.
"The standard Latin for solar eclipse is labores solis. Look it up in the dictionary."
The standard Latin for eclipse is eclipsare. In other words, eclipse _is_ a Latin word, which makes it rather idiotic to suggest there would be a Latin word for eclipse other than eclipse.
On top of that (not to make an appeal to authority) I got my degree in the history of astronomy and _never_ encountered the term "labore solis" in _any_ context.
1. From online dictionary at University of Notre Dame:
eclipse: labor (2) (labos) -oris m. (1) [work , toil, effort, industry, capacity for work; feat, work, result of labor]. (2) [hardship, fatigue, distress]; 'labores solis', [eclipse of the sun].
2. From the Perseus Digital Library:
a. Labores solis, eclipses of the sun
3. From humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk:
Results for query "eclipse": labores solis : eclipse of the sun.
4. www.sunsite.ubc.ca
eclipse:
Meaning: labores: eclipse of the sun. solis: eclipse of the sun. sun.
5. latin.realdictionary.com:
Definition:- eclipse of the sun. - labores solis
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