Paranormal
In 1994, Italian journalist Enza Massa was at the Italian National Library in Rome when she stumbled upon an unusual find. It was a manuscript dating to 1629, titled: Nostradamus Vatinicia Code. Michel de Notredame, the author's name, was on the inside in indelible ink. This manuscript, never published by Nostradamus, was handed down to the prophet's son and later donated by him to Pope Urban VIII. It did not surface again until now, almost four hundred years later.
The cryptic paintings vary from the strange to the bizarre, with images of popes,decapitations and strange creatures. Known as the "Vaticinia Nostradami",this book has often been considered to be Nostradamus' final propheciesregarding the end of the world as we know it. It was said that Nostradamushad handed the book over to his son who in turn was to donate it to a cardinalat the time who later went on to become Pope Urban VIII; the book eventuallyended up in the library.In both the paintings and the accompanying quatrains within, Nostradamus is saidto have predicted the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the assassination attempt on Pope JohnPaul II, the burning of the oil wells of Kuwait by Iraq, and Boris Yeltsin'srise to power.
Some of the paintings reveal new prophecies, while others are eithergenerally indecipherable or linked to earlier quatrains, but not indicated. Among the paintings are a Pope with the body of a dog, female priests, clergymenbeing attacked and a black-skinned pope. Following are original imagesfrom the Nostradamus Vatinicia.
Giancarlo Rossi, part of the research team given exclusive access to the book, has been actively updating the Vaticinia Nostradami page on Wikipedia with more information and reproduced versions of the paintings found in the book. Following are some of the more notable images:
Attempted escape from a black pope's citadel
Half-pope attacks a dog
Female priests
The History Channel will be presenting a show of the cumulative research efforts over the years done on the book.
Lost Book of Nostradamus – Apocalypse
The show is scheduled to air on October 28, 2007 at 9PM PT/ET.
More information on the Lost Book of Nostradamus can be found onGiancarlo's Wikipedia entry or on the Yale University website which containsa full text of the description of the book.
