The Prophecies of Nostradamus

  THE PROPHECIES:

Michel de Nostradame was the greatest prophet the world has ever seen. Born on Dec. 14, 1503 in France into a distinguished family, he undertook a successful academic career, studying amongst other things, the sciences of medicine and astrology.

Nostradamus is famous for his chilling and often eerily accurate quatrains (cryptic four-line verses), which foretell of great suffering and cataclysmic destruction throughout the centuries following his death.

These morbid prophecies may have been influenced by his experiences in living through the Black Plague which swept through Europe and his own home of Remy, Provence.

Nostradamus first began writing in 1554, recording his visions of the future into ten sections called Centuries, each with 100 verses.

While skeptics claim that much of his writing is open to interpretation, the fact remains that many of his predictions have come true in one form or another, and with stunning accuracy in some cases. Nostradamus reportedly even predicted his own death the night before he passed away on July 2, 1566.

To access more than 1,000 prophecies written by Nostradamus, click on the menu to the right. Drawn any conclusions or found anything interesting about the future? Let us know about it!