Not true... it was a partial eclipse and it was only seen in Australia, Antarctica and the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
Posted on 04/07/2005 3:09:27 PM PDT by kagoots
Prophecy on Pope Fulfilled by Eclipses?
A 10th Century Irish bishop - St. Malachy - predicted every pope that would preside over the Catholic Church.
Almost ten centuries ago, Malachy predicted this pope would be noted by an eclipse of the sun.
In an eerie coincidence, John Paul II was the only known pope to be born on the day of a solar eclipse.
But the prophetic link doesn't end there. Pope John Paul II will be buried this Friday during another solar eclipse.
Astronomers say that on Friday, the day of the Pope's funeral, a partial solar eclipse will blot out most of the sun and darken a wide area of the world, from the South Pacific to the Western Hemisphere.
Solar eclipses are not unusual. But what makes this coming Friday's eclipse notable is the fact that there was a near total eclipse of the sun seen across Europe on May 18, 1920, the very day that John Paul II was born in Poland.
Adding fuel to the arcane speculation about these events is the prophecy of St. Malachy.
Malachy 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., up to and including the 112th. The list includes John Paul and just two more popes who will follow him.
In his list of popes, he uses a single line in Latin identifying a characteristic of each pope.
The description applied to the 110th pope on his list - John Paul II - is "De Labore Solis" (Of the Solar Eclipse), which seems to add great weight to the validity of St. Malachy’s chilling prophecy: that the next two popes chosen to succeed John Paul II will be the last popes.
After the reign of the last pope, "Peter the Roman," St. Malachy wrote, Rome will be destroyed.
As NewsMax.com reported April 3, Saint's Prophecy: Only Two Popes Remain, 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 [Rome] will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people," an indication that the world will end.
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.
cool
If it weren't NewsMax, I'd be mildly impressed.
AHHH The world is ending! Everyone run around screaming! AHHH
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Prophet II: ...the demon shell carry a nine-bladed sword! Nine-bladed! Not two, or five, or seven, but nine, which he will wield on all wretched sinner-sinners, just like you sir, there! And the horns shall be on the head...
Prophet III: ...through Hebediah, his servants. There shall in that time be rumours, of things going astray. Ehm...and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are. And nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi...with a sort of rackey work base, that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers, that their fathers put there only just the night before, 'bout eight o'clock.
-Monty Python's Life of Brian
Oh, Good Lord. Give me a break.
Did you ever notice how the ones doing the predicting usually come out on the winning side in the end? What's up with that, I wonder?
Uh, unless NASA is wrong, the eclipse on May 18, 1920 was a partial eclipse seen in Antartica.
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEplot/SEplot1901/SE1920May18P.GIF
The important thing to discover here is what exactly did Nostradamus say about the current event?
Not true... it was a partial eclipse and it was only seen in Australia, Antarctica and the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
How come it seems like every times an article from Newsmax is posted here at least one of us always seems to find at least one factual error?
Nostradamus said the world would end in something like 3700, didn't he? Seems the last two popes will have extraordinarily long lives...
Only two Popes remain! Get 'em while they're hot! Sale ends Monday!
Look for it soon on Snopes.com.
Who wrote this article, Nancy Reagan?
Oh give me a friggin' break...
This - not the attempt to stand up for a woman being murdered - is the kind of loony crap this site does not need.
Why is this in 'News/Activism' instead of 'Astrology/Tea Leaves' where it belongs ???
They'll be on eBay Tuesday.
does it have anything about a poor black boy growing up to be a ugly white women like thing being a child molester ?
No Benedictines are currently eligible to be the next Pope.
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