Malachy Prophecy: Next Pope Will Be Last
Tuesday, 12 Feb 2013 12:31 PM
By Jim Meyers
Ancient Catholic prophecies by a revered Irish bishop end with the chilling
prediction that the next Pope to be selected by the College of Cardinals to
fill Benedict XVIs place will be the last Pope.
St. Malachy, an Archbishop of Armagh who died in 1148, left behind a list of
112 Popes that has amazed some with its remarkable accuracy.
Malachy used a short phrase in Latin to describe each Pope, beginning with
Celestine II and From a castle on the Tiber. That Popes birth name was
Guido di Castello.
More recently, he described Pope John Paul I with the phrase: From the
midst of the moon. His reign, which began in 1978, began with the moon half
full and lasted only one month or one moon.
He was followed by Pope John Paul II by the Latin expression Laboris Solis
or translated From the labor of the sun an expression meaning a solar
eclipse.
As it turned out, John Paul II was the only known pope to be born on the day
of a solar eclipse and he was buried on the day of a solar eclipse.
A near total eclipse was seen across Europe on May 18, 1920, the day he was
born in Poland. And on April 8, 2005, the day of the Popes funeral, a
partial solar eclipse blotted out most of the sun and darkened a wide area
of the world, from the South Pacific to the Western Hemisphere.
For the next Pope, Benedict XVI, St. Malachy wrote: Glory of the olive.
Before the Pope was selected, some suggested a Benedictine would be elected
because the order is sometimes referred to as the Olivetans, whose name
ultimately derives from the Mount of Olives in the New Testament.
A Benedictine was not selected. However, upon his election as pontiff,
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger chose the name Benedict after St. Benedict of
Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order.
St. Malachy described only one more Pope after Benedict, Petrus Romanus or
Peter the Roman.
The Irish prophet wrote: In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church,
there will reign 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.
Some believe the prophecy could foretell the destruction of the Church, or
the world, and play into Christian prophecy as revealed in the book of
Revelation which suggests a final battle between good and evil.
St. Malachys prophecies were first published in 1595 by a Benedictine
historian.
According to a traditional account, Malachy was summoned to Rome by Pope
Innocent II in 1139, and while there he purportedly experienced a vision of
future Popes. He recorded the vision in his cryptic phrases and this
manuscript was left in an archive and forgotten until its rediscovery in
1590.
A book published last year entitled Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is
Here, by authors Cris Putnam and Tom Horn, detailed the Malachy prophecy
and predicted that the current Pope would abdicate for health reasons,
paving the way for the final Pope.
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