Twenty-five years ago, within three days, from May 10 to May 13,
1981, the so far obscure meaning of quatrain II-97 exploded in
France's face.
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Only if one were to be familiar with France's then current events
would one have immediately understood the meaningful gobbledygook
found in quatrain II-97 :
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--------------- C E N T V R I E___S E C O N D E. -------------
----------------------- (édition de 1555) --------------------
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---- 97 - Romain Pontife garde de t'approcher ----------------
--------- De la cité qui deux fleuues arrouse, ---------------
--------- Ton sang viendras au pres de la cracher, -----------
--------- Toy & les tiens quandfleurira la rose. -------------
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Here, the style is imperative. Nostradamus almost shouts to a
pope: stay away from a city watered by two rivers!
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The last two lines are more obscure: your blood shall spurt, you
and yours, when? When the rose shall be in full bloom.
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That's where an intimate knowledge of things French begins to be
necessary to understand these. If you don't know that the emblem
of the French Socialist Party (then headed by François
Mitterrand) is a rose in a fist, you can't possibly link line 4
to the Mitterrand election of May 10, 1981.
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Assuming that you missed the link, three days later you can't
miss it any longer: when pope John-Paul II's blood spurts on St.
Peter's Square (he has been shot), the prophecy is fulfilled.
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Knowing the facts of these May 1981 days, we begin to see how
Nostradamus' prophecy was impossible to guess even just a few
days before. Why? Because Nostradamus introduces elements to fool
his imprudent reader. He does not want the prophecy to be
understood before the fact, so he messes it up.
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What about his warning to the pope? Stay away from the city
watered by two rivers, he wrote. How are we fooled? First, by the
location of the attempted murder: it does not happen in the city
which John-Paul II visited less than a year before, i.e., Paris.
Second, his reference to two rivers. Everybody knows about the
Seine river which bathes Paris. But very few of Nostradamus'
readers had noticed that Paris is located precisely at the
junction of two rivers, the Seine and the Marne. Paris is indeed
watered by two rivers.
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But this does not solve the riddle: the pope was not in Paris
when he was shot. So why warn him about Paris?
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The answer resides in the use Nostradamus makes of JPII's visit
to Paris, the year before. He uses it to identify JPII as a pope
who did visit Paris.
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What about line 3? Does it not suggest that the attempted murder
would occur nearby? Yes, it does, if you allow only one meaning
to the expression "au pres de la", a meaning of space. But if you
give it a meaning of time, the three lines begin to make perfect
sense: less than a year after the pope's visit to Paris, his
blood will spurt.
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Line 4 also looks as if it has been fabricated regardless of the
facts."Toy & les tiens" falls like a rock in this rather well
constructed poem. If Nostradamus is referring to the fact that
the pope's blood and that of two of his followers would be
spilled on May 13, 1981, then he is wrong at least on one count:
two women were also wounded. But this "Toy & les tiens" is in the
masculine form. To be correct, Nostradamus would have had to
write "Toy & les tiennes". He did not. Why not? This would have
screwed his anagram.
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But the kicker, "quandfleurira la rose." is unmistakable. In
France, as elsewhere, political campaigns produce a flurry of
posters, plastered everywhere, showing a candidate's name, his
party, his colours. In France, in May 1981, public places were
covered with... the rose in the fist, Mitterrand's party having
won the election.
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Taken separately, all these clues to the meaning of the prophecy
would have been... meaningless. But put together, they do point
to one event and to only one event: the attempted murder of pope
John-Paul II in St. Peter's Square, May 13, 1981, three days
after Mitterrand's election as President of France, May 10, 1981,
less than a year after JPII's visit to France, end of May, early
June 1980.
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Clever, eh, this Nostradamus?!
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"how
Nostradamus' prophecy was impossible to guess even just a few
days before. Why? Because Nostradamus introduces elements to fool
his imprudent reader. He does not want the prophecy to be
understood before the fact, so he messes it up. "
Well before we get to the How of the above statement, first line
opening statement of the Handle is a" Roman pope" ie he is actually
from Rome not stationed there, apart from Napoleon and Hitler the Popes
have resided in the Vatican in Rome.
When folk try to make Nostradamus rhymes fit certain events and
characters it is neccessary to show the context of what is being
proposed, this is were the Nostradamus commentators come unstuck, they
do not have a context, so without that how are they going to preguess
and event etc?
CIIQ 97. This prophecy warns a Pope that he and his (probably meaning
nephew-cardinals) will be assassinated, probably by an Orsini
conspiracy, the rose being the chief device of that turbulent clan.
There is no way of telling what city is referred to.
But the Rose of Mitterand come still come to blossom!
Perhaps a future event.
LB
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