ST.
MALACHY S PAPAL PREDICTIONS
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Malachy O
Morgain(1094-1148)was an Irish priest and seer who foretold the identities of
112 Roman Catholic popes, from the reign of Celestine 11 in 1143 to the present
time and beyond.
But not far beyond. According to St. Malachy,
whose predictions have proven amazingly accurate so far, only two popes will
succeed the current supreme pontiff, John Paul 11. The second of these will be
"Petrus Romanus," or "Peter the Roman," of whom Malachy
wrote:
"In the final persecution of the Holy Roman
Church there will be reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many
tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be
destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.
The first formally canonized Irish saint,
Malachy was born into a wealthy and learned family in Armagh. From early
childhood he was drawn to the religious and mystical life, and while still a
youth he apprenticed himself to St. Imar, a hermetic monk.
In his 20s Malachy was
made vicar of Amagh. During the ensuing years he embarked upon a program of
church reform and is also credited with performing miracles of healing. Malachy
succeeded to the archbishopric of Armagh in 1132, but desirous of a simpler
existence, he gave up the post five years later.
Malachy s predictions reputedly were made in 1139 while he was on a pilgrimage
to the Vatican, where he was appointed papal legate for Ireland.(On his last
trek to the holy see, in 1148, Malachy accurately predicted the place and time
of his own death: Clairvaux, France, on All Souls Day, November 2, of that same
year).
Malachy "saw"-and committed to paper- a series
of Latin phrases describing the popes to come. Except for the
final apocalyptic note
about Petrus Romanus, these are brief lines of no more than four words. They
usually refer to a popes family name, birthplace, coat-of-arms, or office held
before election to the papacy. Some of the phrases contain ingenious wordplay or
even puns; some are multiple prophecies.
Pius 111, who reigned for only 26 days in 1503, was aptly described as"De
Parvo Homine," or "from a little man. "Pius s family name was
Piccolomini, Italian for "little man."
Some Catholic scholars insist that St. Malachy never saw
the prophecies which bear his name, and the official Church attitude holds that
they are a forgery dating from the 16th century. If hindsight was responsible
for the early predictions, then the accuracy of the predictions should have
decreased sharply after 1600, But consider what Malachy foresaw for some later
pontiffs-all of whom reigned during the 20th century.
Benedict XV was given the chilling appellation "Religio Depopulata"
(" Religion laid waste"). Unfortunately, it was accurate.
Benedict served from 1914 to 1922, when World War 1 "laid waste" the
religious populations of several continents.
John XXX111 occupied the Vatican from 1958 to 1963. Malachy called him "
Pastor et Nauta," or "Pastor and sailor" Certainly a great pastor
to his own people, John "modernized" his Church and wrote one of the
most brilliant papal documents in history, Pacem in Terris. He was also a true
pastor of the world, loved and admired by millions of non-Catholics, from 1953
until he became pope in 1958, John was the patriarch of Venice, a city full of
sailors. When he convoked the Ecumenical Council in 1962, John chose two symbols
for the council badge-a cross and a ship.
His successor, Paul VI, was represented by "Flos Florum" in Malachy s
vision: "flower of flowers." Paul's coat of arms depicted three fleurs-de
-lis.
John Paul 1, who succeeded Paul in 1978 and held office for only 34 days, was
referred to as "De Medietate Lanae," or "from the half moon.
"John Paul's papal mission was undoubtedly less than " half"
completed when he died. His given name was Albino Luciani, or "white
light"- such as that given off by the half-moon in Malachy s prophecy.
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One of Malachy s strangest predictions
concerned the pope who would follow "De Medietate Lunae. "He is
designated as "De Labore Solis", or "from the toil of the
sun." Applied to John Paul 11, this phrase reveals nothing less than a
double prophecy.
The current pope, the first non-Italian
elected in 456 years, is a native of Krakow, Poland. Krakow is the city
where, in the 15th and 16th centuries, Copernicus "toiled" for
years to prove his heretical theory that the earth revolved around the sun.
Many of Malachy s interpreters also suggested that the "sun"
reference indicated a young pope. Fifty- eight years old at the time of his
election, John Paul 11 is the youngest pope in over a century.
John Paul II s successor is called " Gloria Olivae,"
or "glory of the olive. "traditionally, the olive branch has been
associated with peace, but in both the Old and New Testaments it also serves
as an emblem for the Jews. Putting the two together, some commentators
believe that the reign of this pope will be a peaceful one during which the
prophesied conversion of the Jews will take place.
However , Malachy s description may instead refer to St. Benedicts 6th
century prophecy that a member of his order will lead the Church in its fight
against evil just before the Apocalypse. The Benedictine Order is known by
another name: Olivetans.
After Gloria Olivae comes Petrus Romanus, the
final pope of Rome, during whose reign " the seven-hilled city will be
destroyed. "The Church particularly- and understandably -repudiates St.
Malachy's last, black prophecy. But it is striking that at least one pope had
a similar mystical vision.
In 1909, while granting an audience, pope Pius X leaned back and closed his
eyes. Suddenly he "awoke" and cried out: "What I see is
terrifying. Will it be myself? Will it be my successor? What is certain is
that the pope will quit Rome, and in leaving the Vatican, he will have to
walk over the dead bodies of his priests."
Pius's prophecy was fulfilled neither in his
own time nor in that of the next pontiff. According to Malachy's vision of
the Church's "tribulation," it applies to the successor of Gloria
Olivae-the next pope but one.
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Could the destruction of the "seven
hilled city" be as a result of collapse of
present world man made order?
Could be the "Universal
House of Justice", the supreme body of the Baha'i World; (the
dreadful judge as described by Malachy).
Certainly the Baha'i Faith has
the God given formulae for overcoming modern day problems, both present and
global, that seem to loom before us.
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