Nostradamus (michel de Nostredame, 1503–1566)
(religion, spiritualism, and occult) ( religion, spirituality, and eclipse )
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Nostradamus was a french astrologer of jewish descent, though his family converted to Christianity. His veridical name was Michel de Notre Dame, or Nostredame. He was born at St. Rémy, in Provence, on December 14, 1503. His founder was a notary and ancestors on both his father ’ sulfur and his beget ’ south sides were mathematicians and men of medicine. Nostradamus studied philosophy at Avignon and then medicine at the University of Montpellier, graduating from there in 1529. He first practiced at Agen. He married ; his wife and two small children late died. On their deaths he retired to Provence. From there he was invited to Aix by the Parliament of Provence. He established himself at Salon, near Aix, in 1544, and became celebrated for his medical employment during the plagues at Aix and Lyons. The town of Aix voted him a pension for his services during the contagious disease. Nostradamus moved to Salon de Craux, between Avignon and Marseilles. There he married Anne Ponce Gemelle, and the match had three sons and a daughter ( some records say three sons and three daughters ). He could read Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and spoke several languages. In 1540, he published an almanac of weather predictions based on his astrological research. In 1547, Nostradamus started giving his major prophesies. He collected these and published them at Lyons, in a ledger titled Centuries, in 1555. He dedicated the first base edition to his oldest son, Cæsar. An blow up second edition, dedicated to the king, was published three years subsequently. The ledger consisted of quatrains ( four-line verses ) grouped in hundreds. Each group was called a hundred. Nostradamus claimed that he derived his endowment of prophecy from the kin of Issachar, one of the ten-spot lost tribes of Israel. astrology was at a peak at this time and many of Nostradamus ’ randomness prophesies were fulfilled. consequently he was appointed Physician-in-Ordinary by Charles IX, and given the entitle of Counselor. He received the Duke of Savoy at his salon and was invited to visit Queen Catherine de Médicis. It is said that Nostradamus slept only three or four hours per night. He denied that he was a prophet, though he did feel that he had a endowment of divine origin, “ an infusion of supernatural light … inspired revelation … engagement in divine eternity. ” He suffered from severe gout and other ailments. Nostradamus died at dawn on July 2, 1566, having foretold the accurate day and flush hour of his death. His widow set up a marble stone with a latin dedication, which read, “ here lie the bones of the illustrious Michel Nostradamus, whose about divine penitentiary alone, in the sagacity of all mortals, was worthy to record, under the inflow of stars, the future events of the wholly world. He lived 62 years, 6 months, 17 days. He died at Salon in the year 1566. Posterity, touch not his dessert perch ! Anne Ponce Gemelle hopes for her conserve true felicity. ”
For about 500 years, people around the populace have read Nostradamus ’ prophesies and tried to see how they might apply to the immediate future. They have been hailed as genuine prophetic messages, no matter how confuse the contents of the quatrains. many have seemed to prove exceptionally accurate in the by, yet the possible meanings of most are constantly disputed. All are written in such a convolute manner that they could be applied to any one of a boastfully number of possible historic events. It is possible, of course, that Nostradamus composed them all with his tongue firm in his cheek. apparently they were written in this veil manner then as not to offend the church of the time. Enthusiasts claim that Nostradamus foretold the end of Charles I, the rise of Napoleon, the rise of Hitler, the atomic bombing of Japan, the abdication of Edward VIII, and the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy. Sources: MacHovec, Frank J. : nostradamus : His Prophecies for the Future. Mount Vernon : Peter Pauper Press, 1972
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Ward, Charles A. : Oracles of Nostradamus. New York : Charles Scribner ’ south Sons, 1940
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