Nostradamus, a skilled doctor fascinated by the ocultism, took a risk to the anger from the Catholic Church when predicting 20 centuries of history. Was a visionary one or is their legendary accuracy hardly a durable myth?
The vivacious and small man of long and hirsute beard was an onlooker it figures in Enrique's magnificent Renaissance court II of France. Jewish converts' son, fond of the astrology and other doubtful arts, Nostradamus was invited Paris in 1556 to give an exotic amusement. But their prophecies about the king were dedicated to give him international fame. One of them was direct but ridiculous, suggesting that a blind man soon would be a king. The other era characteristically críptica, open to interpretation: "The young lion will conquer to the old one in the battle field, in a single fight. It will perforate their eyes in their golden cage; two wounds in a, and then a cruel death will die". July of 1559, 10 when the king participated in a fair of chivalry, a stranger has an accident he made that its opponent's lance crossed the gilding real helmet on its left eye. The terrified count of Montgomery was younger than the king; the one splintered weapon hurt for second time to the king in the throat. Enrique suffered a pain agony during 10 days. Along that supposedly prophesied lapse the only blind king that has had France was. The words of Nostradamus were remembered with astonishment along the territory of the Kingdom. The Catholic Church, relentlessly opposed to magicians and bewitching, he/she preferred to put in the blaze to this dangerously precise prophet. The peasants, thinking that the prophecy in fact was a curse, they burned its effigy. He/she survived of being executed by the widow's protection Catalina it reigns.
Hero in the pest
Born December 14 1503 as Michel of Notredame in Saint-Rémy, Provenza, the most controversial seer in the history studied medicine. But their studies were interrupted when the bubonic pest razed the south of France in 1525. While many doctors escaped, Michel treated the sick persons courageously bad of so contagious. But four years later almost was denied the license when graduating, perhaps for the positions risen by envious colleagues. But the gratitude of the peasant and the respect of their schoolmates ended in their total rehabilitation. In 1533 he/she practiced in Agen, a village on the river Garona, and it married a young woman described as rich, very beautiful and admirable". they Had a son and a daughter, but the Inquisition, office of the Church dedicated to suppress the heresy, intervened in its lives. Nostradamus (like it was named) it was called to appear before a court of the Church, accused of making a disrespectful comment about the Virgin María's statue. When returning of the appearance, a rebrote of the pest was taken its wife's lives and children. During the following decade the compassionate doctor became physician again, acquiring the reputation of working miracles. After giving him with a very fair and opportune pension vitalicia, he/she settled down in Living room, between Marseilles and Avinón, it began a business of cosmetics and he/she married a rich widow that gave him six children.
Revelations in the loft
As their splendid financial security he/she made him unnecessary the continuous medical practice, Nostradamus one dedicates to study the mystic arts. The rustic " barbarians ", like he/she called to their neighbors, they did with suspicion their interest for the magic and the astrology. It transformed their loft into observatory from where, climbed in a tripod, it contemplated the starry celestial vault and he/she affirmed to receive the secrets of the future by means of the internal light, the voice at the beginning confined its predictions to the pages of a series of almanacs that it began to publish in 1550, what was a common practice in its time. But gradually it lost the interest in the mundane presage of the climate and the phases of the moon.
Wrapped in the darkness
On the edge of the religious civil war, France offered a fertile field for the somber ones and crípticas prophecies that it published in 1555, the first ones 100 of almost 2000 that were printed in 1557. These Centuries had an immediate success and they took it until the court. Admitting that he/she had chosen a secret expression form deliberately", Nostradamus wrote in a dark jargon made with the help of French modern blended with words and Italian, Greek, Spanish, Hebrew and Latin sentences. Each prediction was a group of four verses, or quartet, although none reveals a gift for the poetry. The seer affirmed that her almost incomprehensible style protected it of the punishment of the powerful ones to who it would not always please them what saw in its futures. More sceptical observers have suggested that the uncertainty was a deliberate escape, allowing so, after the fact, the interpretation was open. In consequence, perhaps for this reason some 400 interpretations different from the Centuries exist, each a trying to decipher the secrets of the prophecies that 3797 continue until the year. "My writings will be understood better after my death", he/she wrote with their particular style.
Real consultant
In the turbulent France there were many that, as the queen Catalina, they didn't want to wait to the medical seer's historical vindication. Its prediction about its deceased husband was enough. Undoubtedly, she was responsible for their appointment like their son's medical resident, the king Carlos IX. According to a popular legend, Nostradamus once invoked a called angel Anael and it asked him to reveal in a magic mirror the destinations of the queen's children. It showed that these would reign shortly, while their hated son-in-law Enrique of Navarrese would be a leader during 23 years. The depressed queen demanded to stop the unpleasant show. In fact, Nostradamus probably visited the court to read the horoscopes of her and its children. It is possible that he/she has had the care of expressing in ambiguous terms the disconcerting readings, because the absolute kings -for better disposition that you/they had toward the fortune-tellers - they were known to punish the messenger of bad news.
Controversial celebrity
Pierre of Ronsard, one of the biggest poets in France, wrote of their contemporary: "As an oracle, during many years it predicted most of our destinations". it was clear that the prophet enjoyed the respect of the royalty and the fame that you/he/she grew until her death in 1566. Inevitably, many did their work with scepticism or, worse still, they considered it a skilled one talkative that used to the credulous ones. Some academics interpreted that Nostradamus also predicted its own death: "Near a banking and a bed I will be found dead". after announcing that he/she would not survive the night, it succumbed to the drop and he/she was found dead the following morning in their room, alone, next to their desk.
The vivacious and small man of long and hirsute beard was an onlooker it figures in Enrique's magnificent Renaissance court II of France. Jewish converts' son, fond of the astrology and other doubtful arts, Nostradamus was invited Paris in 1556 to give an exotic amusement. But their prophecies about the king were dedicated to give him international fame. One of them was direct but ridiculous, suggesting that a blind man soon would be a king. The other era characteristically críptica, open to interpretation: "The young lion will conquer to the old one in the battle field, in a single fight. It will perforate their eyes in their golden cage; two wounds in a, and then a cruel death will die". July of 1559, 10 when the king participated in a fair of chivalry, a stranger has an accident he made that its opponent's lance crossed the gilding real helmet on its left eye. The terrified count of Montgomery was younger than the king; the one splintered weapon hurt for second time to the king in the throat. Enrique suffered a pain agony during 10 days. Along that supposedly prophesied lapse the only blind king that has had France was. The words of Nostradamus were remembered with astonishment along the territory of the Kingdom. The Catholic Church, relentlessly opposed to magicians and bewitching, he/she preferred to put in the blaze to this dangerously precise prophet. The peasants, thinking that the prophecy in fact was a curse, they burned its effigy. He/she survived of being executed by the widow's protection Catalina it reigns.
Hero in the pest
Born December 14 1503 as Michel of Notredame in Saint-Rémy, Provenza, the most controversial seer in the history studied medicine. But their studies were interrupted when the bubonic pest razed the south of France in 1525. While many doctors escaped, Michel treated the sick persons courageously bad of so contagious. But four years later almost was denied the license when graduating, perhaps for the positions risen by envious colleagues. But the gratitude of the peasant and the respect of their schoolmates ended in their total rehabilitation. In 1533 he/she practiced in Agen, a village on the river Garona, and it married a young woman described as rich, very beautiful and admirable". they Had a son and a daughter, but the Inquisition, office of the Church dedicated to suppress the heresy, intervened in its lives. Nostradamus (like it was named) it was called to appear before a court of the Church, accused of making a disrespectful comment about the Virgin María's statue. When returning of the appearance, a rebrote of the pest was taken its wife's lives and children. During the following decade the compassionate doctor became physician again, acquiring the reputation of working miracles. After giving him with a very fair and opportune pension vitalicia, he/she settled down in Living room, between Marseilles and Avinón, it began a business of cosmetics and he/she married a rich widow that gave him six children.
Revelations in the loft
As their splendid financial security he/she made him unnecessary the continuous medical practice, Nostradamus one dedicates to study the mystic arts. The rustic " barbarians ", like he/she called to their neighbors, they did with suspicion their interest for the magic and the astrology. It transformed their loft into observatory from where, climbed in a tripod, it contemplated the starry celestial vault and he/she affirmed to receive the secrets of the future by means of the internal light, the voice at the beginning confined its predictions to the pages of a series of almanacs that it began to publish in 1550, what was a common practice in its time. But gradually it lost the interest in the mundane presage of the climate and the phases of the moon.
Wrapped in the darkness
On the edge of the religious civil war, France offered a fertile field for the somber ones and crípticas prophecies that it published in 1555, the first ones 100 of almost 2000 that were printed in 1557. These Centuries had an immediate success and they took it until the court. Admitting that he/she had chosen a secret expression form deliberately", Nostradamus wrote in a dark jargon made with the help of French modern blended with words and Italian, Greek, Spanish, Hebrew and Latin sentences. Each prediction was a group of four verses, or quartet, although none reveals a gift for the poetry. The seer affirmed that her almost incomprehensible style protected it of the punishment of the powerful ones to who it would not always please them what saw in its futures. More sceptical observers have suggested that the uncertainty was a deliberate escape, allowing so, after the fact, the interpretation was open. In consequence, perhaps for this reason some 400 interpretations different from the Centuries exist, each a trying to decipher the secrets of the prophecies that 3797 continue until the year. "My writings will be understood better after my death", he/she wrote with their particular style.
Real consultant
In the turbulent France there were many that, as the queen Catalina, they didn't want to wait to the medical seer's historical vindication. Its prediction about its deceased husband was enough. Undoubtedly, she was responsible for their appointment like their son's medical resident, the king Carlos IX. According to a popular legend, Nostradamus once invoked a called angel Anael and it asked him to reveal in a magic mirror the destinations of the queen's children. It showed that these would reign shortly, while their hated son-in-law Enrique of Navarrese would be a leader during 23 years. The depressed queen demanded to stop the unpleasant show. In fact, Nostradamus probably visited the court to read the horoscopes of her and its children. It is possible that he/she has had the care of expressing in ambiguous terms the disconcerting readings, because the absolute kings -for better disposition that you/they had toward the fortune-tellers - they were known to punish the messenger of bad news.
Controversial celebrity
Pierre of Ronsard, one of the biggest poets in France, wrote of their contemporary: "As an oracle, during many years it predicted most of our destinations". it was clear that the prophet enjoyed the respect of the royalty and the fame that you/he/she grew until her death in 1566. Inevitably, many did their work with scepticism or, worse still, they considered it a skilled one talkative that used to the credulous ones. Some academics interpreted that Nostradamus also predicted its own death: "Near a banking and a bed I will be found dead". after announcing that he/she would not survive the night, it succumbed to the drop and he/she was found dead the following morning in their room, alone, next to their desk.
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