Nostradamous :: History

NostradamousOnce, while passing through Italy, Nostradamus bowed before a unexampled Franciscan monk, addressing him as His Holiness. Others around him did non understand his strange behavior and the reasons as to why someone would call a mere monk by such a title. However, years later, and after Nostradamus death, that monk became Pope Sixtus V. This was just one of the hundreds of prophecies, or visions of the future, that the fifteenth-century prophet made during his lifetime. Nostradamus, born in the year of 1503 in France, spent his childhood under the guidance of his two grandfathers. After going to the University of capital of Vermont for three years, he received a bachelors degree in the piece of work of medicine. Around this time, there was an outbreak of the plague in various parts of France, and he quickly earned a good reputation with the use of his medicine. However, Nostradamus medicines were not ordinary, as they consisted of psychological guidance and homemade form ulas. Using these methods, he cured many victims of the plague who were previously labeled incurable. He later went back to Montpelier to earn his doctoral degree in medicine. Although Nostradamus was very interested in medicine, he began reading books about the occult and took a fancy to predicting the future. In 1550, he published his first book which contained prophecies for the coming year. The almanac proved so successful and accurate that he began publishing them annually. After several years, Nostradamus developed the creative thinker of writing a complete almanac, entitled Centuries. This book came to consist of prophecies ranging in time from his present to the end of the world. In Centuries there were one thousand quatrains, or verses of four lines each. One which was particularly amazing was this A Captain of great Germany, Shall come to yield himself by stimulating help, To the Kings of Kings with the help of Hungary, So that his revolt shall pee-pee great bloodshed. T his quatrain has been interpreted, in modern day, to mean that Hitler shall involve Hungary in a great battle with much killing. Many believe that it is simply luck that Nostradamus had in predicting the future because his prophecies are generalized and not exact. However, one of his writings contained the man Hister who was to be very powerful in a revolt. This obviously bears much jibe to Hitler, and if this is true, Nostradamus clearly predicted someone that was not to be born until more than three