Posted on 04/03/2005 4:19:28 PM PDT by paltz
When the cardinals of the world pick John Paul II's successor, they may well be choosing the next-to-last pope.
The pope who then follows this choice in the Chair of St. Peter will be the last pope, and after his reign Rome will be destroyed.
Such has been the prophecy of St. Malachy, an Irish bishop who at his death in 1148 A.D. was discovered to have left behind a prophetic list of all future popes beginning with Pope Celestine II, whose papacy began in 1143 A.D.
Malachy included a single line in Latin identifying a characteristic of each pope.
Historians say Malachy's prediction – wherein he listed just 112 popes – has been amazingly accurate.
According to his list, there are just two more popes after the late John Paul II.
Here are the seven last popes as identified from St. Malachy's list:
106. Pius XII 1939 - 1958
Eugenio Pacelli
Pastor Angelicus
Translated: An Angelic Shepherd
107. John XXIII 1968 - 1963
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
Pastor Et Natua
Translated: Pastor and Mariner
108. Paul VI 1963 - 1978
Giovanni Battista Montini
Flos Florum
Translated: Flower of Flowers
109. John Paul I 1978 - 1978
Albino Luciani
De Medietate Lunae
Translated: Of the Half Moon
110. John Paul II 1978 - 2005
Karol Jozef Wojtyla
De Labore Solis
Translated: From the Toil of the Sun
111. The next pope
"Gloria Olivae"
Translated: The Glory of the Olive
112. The last pope!
"Petrus Romanus"
Translated: Peter the Roman
Wrote St. Malachy of the last pope: "In extreme persecution, the seat of the Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable Judge will judge the people. The End."
According to his biographer St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in his book "Life of Saint Malachy," the saint was known to have the gift of prophesy and had even predicted the exact day and hour of his own death. Saint Malachy was canonized in 1190 by Pope Clement III.
While in Rome in 1139, Saint Malachy is said to have gone into a trance and received a vision in which he foresaw all the popes from the death of Innocent II until the end of time.
Afterward he wrote a few words about each pope and gave the manuscript to Pope Innocent II, who is said to have deposited it in Vatican Archives, where it lay forgotten until it was discovered in 1590 and published. At the time, some questioned its authenticity and it has been the subject of debate ever since.
The manuscript contains 112 prophecies, which scholars have matched with each of the 110 popes and anti-popes since Innocent II .
Here are the prophecies for the most recent popes:
Today the final two prophecies are yet to be fulfilled:
The 111th prophecy is "Gloria Olivae" (The Glory of the Olive). The meaning of the olive is unclear. The Order of Saint Benedict – not St. Malachy – has claimed that this pope will come from its ranks and Saint Benedict himself prophesied that before the end of the world his Order, known also as the Olivetans, will triumphantly lead the Catholic Church in its final fight against evil.
The 112th prophecy says, "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman), who will feed his flock amid many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.
Editor's note:
That settles it. The next pope is Cardinal Martini, and since he is 78 years old, his reign will be a short one.
Iran tests out their first nuke on Rome? (/speculation)
This has only been posted about 100 times already, and should have been posted in the "Religion" section ALL of those times, and NOT in "News/Current Events".
I'll drink to that.
Shaken or stirred?
Our email was down.
Oops.
Thanks, o menial subject. In recognition, we will eat you last.
I believe the Olive Tree is also representative of Israel, which is why a lot of people are looking at Cardinal Lustiger, who is a converted Jew. He is also 79 yrs old, so he would probably have a short reign.
I don't know about the rotation ... of the earth? I hear a lot about polar shifts coming in about 2010 or before in varying degrees. Then the big event in 2012, whatever that is!
Noory seems to think that 2012 will be a change for good in the earth. I dunno ... I just like to listen to the different theories and predictions.
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We have been told that we will not know the hour, that means that any prophesy is meaningless because it depends on humans to interpret them. There is no reason to believe that it would be a straight line.
These prophecies are garbage. Is FR turning into conspiracy central? This is the eighth or ninth posting of these silly prognostications.
No .. but it seems like some have turned into grumpy old men
Chill .. there's nothing wrong with talking about this
It was a problem with the date tables in their software.
True .. anything is possible
Possible. And what if this next pope has nothing to do with the Olives...then what
There is when otherwise intelligent people believe it just because it's got a saint's name tacked to it.
It's superstitious nonsense that dovetails with all that "endtimes" foolishness that is infecting certain segments of Protestantism.
Some incidental will be found so that he can be shoehorned into the "Olive" paradigm.
To link John XXIII to mariners because he served a city that has canals is silly.
I thought the Quatraines of Nostradamus held prophecies up until the year 3000. If so, either Nostradamus was wrong or St. Malachy was. Ain't no way the lives of 2 Popes can span 995 years.
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