Cool Nostradamus Future Prophecies images

A few nice Nostradamus future prophecies images I found:

Saint Malachy


Image by Fergal OP
Saint Malachy O’More

Malachy was best known for his prophesies on the Papacy. Although he did a lot more than that! He was the first ever saint from Ireland to be formally canonised. Born at the end of the eleventh century he was to become the man who would establish Roman Catholic practices on the Irish Catholic tradition. Although he wasn’t the first bishop of Armagh he was reportedly the first Archbishop of Armagh when it was elevated in 1152 when he would have been 58 (having been born in 1094) although he was traditionally only 35 when he was appointed Archbishop. History and Tradition don’t match on this point!

Malachy was however responsible for the harmonisation of Irish liturgy with the Roman Rite. The Stowe Missal was replaced due to his endeavours. He was friends with St Bernard of Clairvaux and through his influence the Cistercians established a firm base in Ireland. Even to this day the Cistercian tradition is strong in Ireland. If you look through the RUINS set on my Flickr site you will see the ruins of many old Cistercian monasteries – Tintern Abbey and Dunbrody Abbey in Wexford to the east, Jerpoint and Gowran (St Mary’s Abbey) in Kilkenny to my north, the sea to my south and Mount Mellary and Glencairn Abbey in Waterford to my west are both occupied with Cistercians to this day. A long tradition that stretches back to Malachy’s friendship with Bernard.

If you’ve read this far you are probably looking for information on his prophecies. By and large that is what he is best known for. They are loose string on words that can fit any occasion.

FLOS FLORUM – flower of flowers; Paul VI had fleurs-de-lis in his coat-of-arms. The link is tenuous to say the least. Almost all church art uses flowers with roses and lilies so one of these flowers was bound to appear in his life as pope. Had I been elected pope in 1963 my interest in wildflowers would have been cited as the fulfilment of the prophecy.

DE MEDIETATE LUNAE – of the half-moon; John Paul I was elected on a half moon. Of course the half-moon is not an unusual occurrence so coincidence cannot be ruled out here. A more convincing link comes from his name Albino Luciani which means ‘white light’. Again my own name is often mistakenly translated as ‘Bright Man’ from Fear Geal, and geal is half of gealach which means moon so half my name is half the moon’s name!!! But it’s not (see the note below); however, anybody who is half-mad would qualify for this label.
[Note: ‘gal’ as a suffix in Irish means; large, treacherous, dangerous; the oldest recorded spelling is - Ferghal – and had only one ‘l’ and no diphthong!]

DE LABORE SOLIS – of the work of the sun; this one had to be stretched for John Paul II. In our hemisphere the sun is to the south but John Paul was born on a solar eclipse. And like the sun he came out of the east – well, it’s east if you live in western Europe but it is the middle of the European continent which starts at the Tatras and ends in Belmullet. Japan lies off the west coast of North America!
John Paul is hard to link to the sun in any way. Some have suggested that his travels had him coming in from the sky by airplane like the sun – and I think – haven’t we got past the stage of being awed by air travel? Had he been Japanese or come from a background where he worked as a farm labourer in southern Africa maybe – sunny Poland in an aeroplane is stretching it too far. Somebody has to come up with something better on this one.

GLORIA OLIVAE – the Glory of the Olive; the infamous ‘black pope’ theory. In the Book of Kings the glory of the olive is its oil that cheers the hearts of God and men! [sic] The Olive Branch is a symbol of peace and the crest of many organisations such as the Benedictine Order – and yes you got it! BENEDICT!
Prior to his election the popular theories were that this pope would be connected to the dark fruit of the olive or the colour black.
An African Cardinal
A Benedictine (The Benedictines are also referred to as Olivetians)
A Jesuit (Black Pope is a nickname for the Superior General of the Jesuits)
A Dominican (Blackfriar)
Me (black humour)
Anybody who has ever worked in peace & reconciliation (nearly all priests
covered safely here)
Anybody who worked in the Middle East, Nigeria or Venezuela or in the
petrochemical area of industry – the oil that cheers both men and men [not sic]
Let’s be honest – it’s not that hard to find a way of making ‘the Glory of the Olive’ fit to any situation.

PETRUS ROMANUS – Peter the Roman; the 112th prophesy – my door number in Malahide was 112 when I was growing up and after ordination my door number in Leuven was 112 too!
As this one has not been fulfilled yet it is the most interesting at all. There are thousands of things that appear to be true. Peter the Roman is the last pope on the list and traditionally this was to become the main text of Catholic apocalyptics.

The prophesy goes beyond two words and says: “Peter the Roman will reign in the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, he will feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the city of the seven-hills will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.”
Certainly this has a certain ring about it. The last 20 years have seen the slow and painful unwinding of Christian faith in Europe and beyond. Church authorities speak of the faith ‘growing’ in the developing world as if that is a sign of hope. Developing communities are always more inclined towards structural religion than developed ones are. As soon as a society is rich enough to drug and pamper itself it forgets about God. Europe is rich therefore Europe is godless so it would appear that the City of the Seven Hills may have indeed run its course.
But, as the Archbishops’ spokesmen rush to defend the bastions of the institution the ground beneath their very feet is crumbling. Many of us here only ever wanted the simple things of faith; to live our lives as Jesus taught us – to love God and to love our neighbour – in prayer and in simple good deeds we live our lives. We crave communion with the source of our life and celebrate with reverence and faith. Jesus never told us to run the health and education systems of a society but we do – mostly because it is labour intensive and skilled. In the developing world there are armies of unpaid religious women working for no earthly reward just as there were in Ireland when we were a developing nation. Tarred with one brush they find themselves vilified in the press but faithful in their love of God and of their often abusive neighbours. Faith is still alive at this level in Europe; there will always be good and holy people – so what is the judgement that is to come in this prophecy?

Christians have always seen the second coming as a doomsday scenario. That Christ will come and destroy the earth and judge us all with the good ones off to heaven and the baddies to Hell. How do we know that he is not to send a reformer at this time to bring us away from the practices and privileges we have accumulated – to stand away from the Pharisaic practices we have developed instead of the faith of the Apostles. What was the faith of the apostles?
Peter the apostle was rather shaky for a rock – he gets most of his questions wrong and denies Christ in his final hour.
Thomas the apostle wanted proof and didn’t like to take things at face value
Judas the apostle betrayed him
James and John the apostles jockeyed for position in the Kingdom
The cocksure, arrogant, adamant but ‘humble’ Church we have become is the opposite of the five guys just listed!
Maybe the fall of Rome is a rally to faith – maybe the second judgement is a second chance? The only chance we have of knowing how anything is to happen is to wait and see. After that we can twist the words of Malachy, Nostradamus or whoever to fit the facts. You see God might know everything but the future never actually exists therefore there isn’t a future therefore God doesn’t know it therefore Malachy cannot predict it.

A true Christian understands prophecy as an interpretation of the signs of the times. If you play with fire you will get burnt is not a prediction but a likely outcome. A prophet is a man or a woman who can see what is going on and identifies its likely outcome – that’s not the same as predicting the future which is bad religion! The difference between religion and superstition is simple. A religion tries to influence a present against a possibly bad future and a superstition controls the present with a threat into the future.

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Image by Maurits Burgers
"prophecies for the past present and future".
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