2023-12-31 05:32:28
It was called Michael of Notre Dame, and was born one morning on December 14, 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a small town located in the south of France. Nobody could imagine at that time that he was going to become one of the most questioned and popular characters in history. But that’s how it was. Nostradamus, as we know him today, has become famous for his predictions. Few know, however, what was behind the scenes of his life: tragedy, study and a job as a doctor in the worst years of the Gallic plague. Nothing to do with those quatrains that are remembered year after year in which, or so the most conspiracy-minded believe, predict events such as the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte or the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.
Early years of Nostradamus
Since his childhood, this controversial character stood out for having a great interest in reading and languages. “It was surprising that the little boy learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew with extraordinary skill,” says Francisco Caudet Yarza in his book ‘Nostradamus’. In turn, during this time he was initiated by his great-grandfather into the field that, a few years later, would earn him a place in the history books: the astral sciences. When he was just a teenager, young Michel left for Avignon to continue the family tradition and study medicine. But his classes would not last long; At the age of 22, and without yet having the title, he had to practice as a doctor in Narbonne, Toulouse and Bordeaux in the face of the great epidemic of bubonic plague that devastated the country.
After serving as a doctor for four years, Nostradamus decided to recover and finish his studies. However, everything changed for this scholar when he met the love of his life, a young woman of high birth with whom he married and had three children. But, apparently, fate did not want him to end his days as a well-off father and husband, since his entire family died due to the fatal disease that, at that time, was decimating the French population. «After a bourgeois marriage that death cut short with extreme brutality, Michel remarried a wealthy widow […] “which brought great economic stability to the prophet’s existence,” the author completes in his text.
During this marriage, which lasted 20 years, Michel began to make use of his alleged ability to predict the future by publishing, among other things, horoscopes and almanacs that he used to base on the study of the stars. Several years later, he put aside the astral sciences to affirm that he possessed the gift of clairvoyance. Thus, thanks to the considerable number of times that his prophecies had been fulfilled, the popularity of Nostradamus – who now used his Latinized surname as a nickname – began to increase radically. However, the years have still not clarified what method he used to divine the future.
In fact, the origin of his powers also generated great controversy. “Some claimed that the prophet was a genius, but others despaired at the possibility that his powers had been born in the infernal abysses controlled by Satan,” adds Yarza. However, his fame and supposed ability to predict the future earned him the friendship of kings and courtesans of high society until his death, which occurred on July 2, 1566, when he was 62 years old. Behind him, his prophecies were also written and published, divided into 10 volumes (also known as centuries) each made up of 100 predictions of 4 verses.
Napoleon
His prophecies, made up of four verses, soon became famous. In one of the first, the LX century quatrain, Nostradamus allegedly predicted the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte and his subsequent rise as Emperor of France.
“An emperor will be born near Italy / who will cost the empire a high price, / those who associate with him will say, / that he is more butcher than prince.”
The parallels are evident. To begin with, Nostradamus would have predicted no less than two centuries earlier the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, a native of Corsica, a territory close to Italy but under French sovereignty. And he would have also been right in stating that his leadership would cost the empire a high price, since the small Corsican emptied the coffers of France in his obsession with dominating Europe and led Europe to fill hundreds of thousands of coffins: between two and four million, according to the expert you turn to.
Atomic bombs
In quatrain number VI of the 2nd century, according to interpretations that have been made later, Nostradamus would make reference to the two atomic bombs that the United States dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thus, in the second verse, the prophet would refer to the two Japanese cities, while, in the third, he would point out the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by the attack and the subsequent victims. As always, everything is seen ‘posteriori’.
“Near the gates and within two cities, / there will be two scourges like nothing ever seen, / famine, within the plague, by the iron thrown out, / ask for help from the great immortal God.”
Murders
In the XXVI quatrain of the 1st century, Nostradamus could be considered to refer to the assassination of the President of the United States John F. Kennedy. He was shot several times while participating in a parade in Texas on November 22, 1963. In addition, Nostradamus would also have guessed almost 400 years in advance the death of the politician’s brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, who died after one in the morning. early morning (and therefore at night, as Michel would have predicted) after terrorist Sirhan Sirhan shot him repeatedly.
“The great lightning falls by day, / evil and predicted by postulary bearer: / Next omen falls by night, / Conflict in Reims, London, bubonic Etruscan.”
«Reference is also made in the second line to the warning given by the prophetess Jean Dixon to the two brothers, who did not pay attention to her. The final line of the quatrain places us chronologically in the last of the deaths, which occurred while student riots were taking place in Reims and London, and in Pisa and Florence there was a risk of epidemics due to the flooding of the Arno River,” he concludes in his book. Yarza.
Rise of the Swastika
Always according to the most conspiracy-minded, Nostradamus also prophesied the rise of Hitler and the outbreak of World War II. A clear example of this is the XXXV quatrain of the 3rd century:
“From the deepest depths of Western Europe, / of poor people a child will be born, / who by his language will seduce the masses, / his fame in the Eastern kingdom will grow the more.”
Michel’s followers point out that Hitler was born in Austria and came from a poor family. Furthermore, they affirm that the coincidence is absolute in the third verse, since the Nazi leader’s oratorical ability allowed him to convince millions of Germans to fight alongside him. However, there are many more predictions that can be associated with the German dictator. Among them, the XXV quartet of the 2nd century stands out. In it we even talk about ‘Hister’:
«Ferocious beasts of hunger rivers swallow, / the greater part of the field against Hister will be, / in an iron cage the great one will make them carry, / when nothing the son of German will observe».
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