Nostradamous :: History

NostradamousOnce, while passing through Italy, Nostradamus bowed before a young Franciscan monk, addressing him as His Holiness. Others around him did not understand his other behavior and the reasons as to why some champion would call a chaste 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(p) in the year of 1503 in France, spent his childhood under the counselling of his two grandfathers. After going to the University of Montpelier for three years, he real a bachelors degree in the study of medicine. Around this time, there was an eruption of the evil in various parts of France, and he quickly pull in a good reputation with the use of his medicine. However, Nostradamus medicines were not ordinary, as they lie downed of mental guidance and homemade formulas. Using t hese methods, he cured many victims of the plague who were previously labeled incurable. He later went back to Montpelier to gather 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 idea 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 dish, To the Kings of Kings with the help of Hungary, So that his revolt shall cause great bloodshed. This quatrain has been in terpreted, in modern day, to sozzled that Hitler shall involve Hungary in a great battle with much killing. umteen believe that it is simply luck that Nostradamus had in predicting the future because his prophecies are extrapolate and not exact. However, one of his writings contained the man Hister who was to be very regent(postnominal) in a revolt. This obviously bears much resemble to Hitler, and if this is true, Nostradamus clearly predicted mortal that was not to be born until more than three