Who Was Nostradamus?

French Astrologer, Physician, and publisher of prophecies

Michel de Nostredame usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was born December 1503 and died July 1566. He published collections of prophecies that have since become well known worldwide.

Before his turn to Prophecy and the Occult

Nostradamus very well known in his ealier life for research and theories on hygiene and immunology. Both his wife and childeren died of the plague, this drove him to try and develop his ideas further.

Unfortunately, the church was apposed to some of his ideas, this led to him falling out of favour and banned from his practice. He was laso branded a heretic by the church for his practices.

After the tragedy of loosing his family he turned to new ideas, and began to write. This led to his book "The prophecies" for which he is most famous and remembered for.

Many of his prophecies dealt with disaster such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods and the coming of three antichrists.

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Nostradamus' way of writing

When Nostradamus wrote his so called predictions he split them up into rhymed quatrains, these are small rhyming paragraphs. Each of his quatrains relates to different events of different natures.

In the last edition of The Prophecies there were three hundred new quatrains, this final edition before his death was reportedly printed in 1558, but now only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. All together there are now only 941 rhymed quatrains remaining.

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