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catscradle Apr. 19th, 2005 01:48 pm)
catscradle Apr. 19th, 2005 01:48 pm)You know I can't resist these things....
Been looking through old prophecy books at the library at lunch. Some of you have heard of the prophecies of St. Malachy (12th century) on all the Popes from now to the end of time? There's a lot of dispute on its authanticity as they were lost in the Vatican archives for 400 years and re-emerged in the 1600s. But many have noted that the prophecies - just little phrases on the Pope's coat-of-arms, actually - have been pretty near perfect accuracy. Some just say it's a word game. Others that the current Pope simply adopts the motto to fit the prophecy. Be that as it may, I'm going to post some of these because I find it interesting.
John Paul I's death after only a month fit the interpretation De medietate Lunæ "From the half of the moon." (most interpretations were that this pope's reign would last about a month, which it did - from one half moon to the next). Seems rather radical to die for a prophecy that most Catholic clergy don't accept as authentic. But who knows. Maybe he took one for the team.
John Paul II's motto was De labore Solis, translated as either "Of the labor of the Sun" or "Of the eclipse of the Sun." Many interpretations were about his deep devotion to Mary and a reference to Revelation 12 "A woman clothed with the sun..." But now that all is said and done, it turns out JPII was born on a day of a solar ecplipse and was buried on a day of a solar eclipse.
Now to the new Pontif - Benedict XVI. His motto Gloria olivæ or Glory of the Olives. No clue what that means yet. But interesting is that all the books I'm looking in say this Pope will most likely be of the Benedictine order. Again, no clue where they picked up this interpretation, but then I don't know much about Benedictines. I can't find anything on what Ratzinger's order is, so I'm assuming he's just a diocesan priest (they don't belong to a particular order). But I find his Pontif name rather interesting.
Oh well. He's suppose to be the second to the last Pope. The last is titled Petrus Romanus, or Peter the Roman. He actually gets two sentences. Have you studied your Latin? Well HAVE you? Here ya go:
In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus: quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, & Judex tremêdus judicabit populum suum. Finis.
Translation: 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 his people. The End.
I kind of love that after all that there's just "The End." Like "And they all died horrible deaths and went to hell. The End."
Been looking through old prophecy books at the library at lunch. Some of you have heard of the prophecies of St. Malachy (12th century) on all the Popes from now to the end of time? There's a lot of dispute on its authanticity as they were lost in the Vatican archives for 400 years and re-emerged in the 1600s. But many have noted that the prophecies - just little phrases on the Pope's coat-of-arms, actually - have been pretty near perfect accuracy. Some just say it's a word game. Others that the current Pope simply adopts the motto to fit the prophecy. Be that as it may, I'm going to post some of these because I find it interesting.
John Paul I's death after only a month fit the interpretation De medietate Lunæ "From the half of the moon." (most interpretations were that this pope's reign would last about a month, which it did - from one half moon to the next). Seems rather radical to die for a prophecy that most Catholic clergy don't accept as authentic. But who knows. Maybe he took one for the team.
John Paul II's motto was De labore Solis, translated as either "Of the labor of the Sun" or "Of the eclipse of the Sun." Many interpretations were about his deep devotion to Mary and a reference to Revelation 12 "A woman clothed with the sun..." But now that all is said and done, it turns out JPII was born on a day of a solar ecplipse and was buried on a day of a solar eclipse.
Now to the new Pontif - Benedict XVI. His motto Gloria olivæ or Glory of the Olives. No clue what that means yet. But interesting is that all the books I'm looking in say this Pope will most likely be of the Benedictine order. Again, no clue where they picked up this interpretation, but then I don't know much about Benedictines. I can't find anything on what Ratzinger's order is, so I'm assuming he's just a diocesan priest (they don't belong to a particular order). But I find his Pontif name rather interesting.
Oh well. He's suppose to be the second to the last Pope. The last is titled Petrus Romanus, or Peter the Roman. He actually gets two sentences. Have you studied your Latin? Well HAVE you? Here ya go:
In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus: quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, & Judex tremêdus judicabit populum suum. Finis.
Translation: 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 his people. The End.
I kind of love that after all that there's just "The End." Like "And they all died horrible deaths and went to hell. The End."
