With the passing of the first Polish pope, the following article,
originally posted here in August 2002, focusses upon the gift of
prophecy bestowed upon people other than Nostradamus, but whose
foreknowledge matches some of his own veiled prophecies.
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Originally posted as:
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Subject: A Polish Prophet?
Message-ID: <20020814225307.W19791-100000@sheppard1.torfree.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:57:05 -0400
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When confronted with the reality of prophecy, the rational mind
asks itself: how is it possible? One answer can be: all events
having been created at the moment of the creation of the
Universe, they merely happen when their time has arrived.
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In 1849, a Polish poet named Juliucz Slowacki is said to have
written a prophetic verse, later translated into English, and
quoted in part in 'Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope
John Paul II', by Jonathan Kwitny, at pp. 74-75:
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The Harbinger of Slavic hopes fulfilled --
The Papal Throne!
This Pope will not --Italian-like-- take fright
At saber-thrust
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But brave as God himself, stand and give fight. . . .
Now he approaches, he whose hand constrains
Globe-spanning forces:
He whose word turns back along our veins
The blood that courses. . . .
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Our Slavic Pope, brother to all mankind,
Is there to lead!
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What makes this poem a little more interesting is that a Polish
old woman, Irena Szkocka, whom Karol Wojtyla viewed as a sort of
adoptive grandma, had a book of poetry by that author and, after
her death in 1971, it was discovered that she had annontated the
line (differently quoted elsewhere) "He has made ready the throne
for a Slavic Pope" thus: "This Pope will be Karol."
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Here, the poem does not matter. Perhaps the dream of a Polish
Pope had coursed through the veins of the Polish psyche for
centuries. What matters is the prophetic statement handwritten
next to the poem.
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Perhaps the old lady was intuitive enough to know that her
adoptive grandson would become Pope one day. After all, she knew
him very well, corresponded with him until her death, nothing
very surprizing then at her reaching an 'obvious' conclusion,
obvious to her, at least.
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But what is certain is that Nostradamus did not correspond with
him and yet he was able to see that he would become the fifth
successor to a pope who would reign 17 years, be himself elected
the same year as his immediate predecessor, and be not too much
like a Roman.
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What is also certain is that the author of the so-called Malachy
prophecy also knew who he was, born on the day of a total eclipse
of the Sun, a wounded John Pol, Paul being spelled so as to
illustrate his Pol...ish origin, seriously wounded on May 13,
1981, on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, three days after the
election of French President François Mitterrand...
« quandfleurira la rose. ». The rose in the fist being at the
time the trademark of the French Socialist Party, which
Mitterrand did lead.
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And so, in another quatrain, Nostradamus links the visit to Paris
by a pope with the assassination attempt upon him less than a
year later, the wounding of two of his followers at the same
time, and with the result of the French presidential elections
three days earlier.
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But nowhere does Nostradamus write clearly about a Polish Pope,
or about a Slavic Pope. Slowacki did. And Mrs. Szkocka knew who
that Pope would be.
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It could be said that Nostradamus never did write clearly about a
Polish Pope so as to prevent the then Communist regime from
blocking that election, to avoid that which ensued, the end of
the Soviet Union.
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Perhaps for a similar reason, Nostradamus did not clearly name
anyone from his future in his published texts. But he was clever
enough to use enigmas to point to the main characters of his 460-
year prophetic narration. And, with the passage of time, the
meaning of these enigmas gradually comes to light.
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Clever, eh, this Nostradamus?!
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[originally posted on August 14, 2002]
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