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prophecies of st. Malachy

  • 21-02-2008 04:22PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭


    This man predicted the line of popes from his time up to the end of the world. Apparently, Benedict XVI is the second last one. The final one will come about with the name of Peter the Roman. Anyone here read books on this Irish Prophet?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Predhead


    No but I might look that up, sounds interesting..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    It would have been really interesting to hear about this a few years ago, just before the next pope came in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭iamhunted


    it is said they are forgeries from the 1600s
    The prophecy was first published in 1595 by Arnold de Wyon, a Benedictine historian, as part of his book Lignum Vitæ. Wyon attributed the list to Saint Malachy, the 12th‑century bishop of Armagh in Ireland. According to the traditional account, in 1139, Malachy was summoned to Rome by Pope Innocent II. While in Rome, Malachy purportedly experienced a vision of future popes, which he recorded as a sequence of cryptic phrases. This manuscript was then deposited in the Roman Archive, and thereafter forgotten about until its rediscovery in 1590.

    On the other hand, Bernard of Clairvaux's biography of Malachy makes no mention of the prophecy, nor is it mentioned in any record prior to its 1595 publication.[citation needed] Some sources, including the most recent editions of the Catholic Encyclopedia, suggest that the prophecy is a late 16th‑century forgery. Some have suggested that it was created by Nostradamus and was credited to Saint Malachy so the purported seer would not be blamed for the destruction of the papacy. Supporters, such as author John Hogue, who wrote a popular book titled The Last Pope about the claims, generally argue that even if the author of the prophecies is uncertain, the predictions are still valid. There seems to be no indication that the papers were in fact a forgery except for the wild inaccuracies and reaching attributions of the later predictions when compared to earlier ones, assuming a 1580-1590 creation date

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes


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