The most famous soothsayer in the world over the past 500 years is a French physician and astronomer named Michel Nostradamus. He went down in history as the winner of the plague and the lord of time, inexplicably looking ahead for 2000 years. To this day, his predictions enjoy great attention and are studied with interest by many astrologers.
The birth of the future soothsayer
In December 1503, on the 14th, in the French province of Provence, a boy was born in the family of Jacques Nostradamus, a notary in Saint-Remy and Rene. He was named after Michel de Notre Dame. According to his father, he was a Jew, and his whole family for the time being adhered to Judaism. However, the time was turbulent: Europe lived under the close supervision of the Catholic Church and according to its laws. Therefore, all non-Christian followers could be outlawed and executed as heretics. Where Michel Nostradamus was born, Jewish families were threatened with exile. Therefore, the entire family of the future seer accepted the faith preached by the Pope and was baptized. That is why little Michel was given a Latin surname - Nostradamus.
Paternal lineageThe lines of Nostradamus were ancestors who were engaged in healing and predictions. On the mother's side, relatives were representatives of the sciences, especially mathematics and medicine.
Childhood and primary education of Nostradamus
He spent all his childhood in his native Saint-Remy, grew up, played on the streets of Provence just like other children at his age. As for education, it should be noted that not every family could do it in medieval Europe, and therefore Michel Nostradamus received primary and secondary education at home. Raised and taught the basics of science by his maternal grandfather, Jean de Saint-Remy. It was he who instilled in the young man an interest in studying the stars. Michel was so carried away by astrology that already in childhood his friends and relatives called him "the little astrologer". Jean was able to give his grandson a very good and complete education by the standards of that time, but when Michel Nostradamus reached the age of 15, his grandfather died. After that, a new period begins in his life.
Avignon Master travels to France
In 1518, immediately after the death of his grandfather, he went to one of the largest cities in France - Avignon. There he enters the university and begins to study the sciences of the humanities, such as logic, philosophy, grammar and rhetoric. He spends the next 3 years within the walls of an educational institution, after which another master of arts appears in France - Michel Nostradamus. The biography of the next 8 years is very vague. Some sources say that all 8 years after training, he traveledaround the country, studying medicinal plants. According to other sources, in 1521 he decides to devote himself entirely to medicine and enters one of the most prestigious educational institutions in Europe - the University of Montpellier, whose medical school was famous throughout the Old World. He devotes another three years to studying, as a result of which he receives a bachelor's degree and only after that he sets off to travel around his native country until 1529. However, most likely, we will not know the truth, because the period of his life from 1921 to 1929 is shrouded in darkness.
First meeting with a lady named Plague
During his travels in 1526, he ended up in Aix. There he first came face to face with the disease. From that time on, her study occupied all the time. After the first successful attempts in the fight against a dangerous epidemic, Michel begins to treat the infected throughout France, and takes on those patients that other doctors have already abandoned as hopelessly ill, leaving them to wait for their death. It was at this time that Michel Nostradamus invented the famous remedy for the plague. It consisted of a set of aromatic herbs that had to be placed under the tongue of those who were in the area of infection. In this terrible time for all of Europe, the fame of the winner of the plague is spreading through the cities and villages of France.
Teaching on the verge of exclusion, or How a student surpassed his teacher
Michel Nostradamus traveled until 1529 when he decided to continue his studies at the University of Montpellier. On October 23, he succeeded. He was reinstated at the Faculty of Medicine withfor the purpose of obtaining a doctorate and a license to practice medicine. After tuition fees and an oath of observance of the statutes and rules of the university, he chose a mentor. It turned out to be Antoine Romier. However, with further training, he is on the verge of expulsion. There were many reasons for this, but the most important is that his understanding of the nature of diseases and medical activity went against the existing canons of healing. Most of all, doctors were furious at the refusal of bloodletting and its recognition as dangerous to human life.
Dr. Nostradamus
At a time when his fate as a student hung in the balance, he did not give up his beliefs and made fighting the plague his calling. He suggested that if contaminated areas are disinfected, the incidence can be reduced. Also, one book of Nostradamus revealed the secret of preparing a remedy that resists plague infection. One of his most famous inventions in those years was rose petal pills rich in vitamin C. In large quantities, Nostradamus distributed this remedy on the streets and squares of infected cities. As a result of undoubted success in opposing the plague, it was possible to resolve the contradictions at the university, and already in 1534, at the age of 31, Michel received a doctorate. From this event, his surname is written only as Nostradamus.
A small happiness and a crushing defeat in Agen
The result of recognition of the merits of Nostradamus wasan invitation to the city of Agen by one of the most significant scientists in Europe, called "French Erasmus", in order to continue his studies. It was Jules-Cesar Scaliger. It happened in 1536. At this time, Nostradamus married his chosen one, who bore him two children. Everything was going great. But soon the white stripe was replaced by black. A plague broke out in Agen. Michel entered into battle with her, but suffered a crushing defeat. In this battle, he lost his family. After that, disagreements began with Scaliger, old competitors and simply envious people called him a charlatan. But the worst thing is that Nostradamus gets noticed by the Inquisition, he is threatened with death.
At night he flees from Agen and leaves French territory. A seven-year period of wandering in Italy and Spain begins. The riddles of Nostradamus in this troubled time come out from under his pen. It is believed that it is after the loss of the family that the gift of foresight manifests itself in him.
How Nostradamus managed to turn his pursuer into his ally…
1546 was a turning point in his life. The province of Provence experienced great difficulties, the plague epidemic there reached catastrophic proportions and threatened with the complete destruction of the entire population. In the same year, there was a severe flood, as a result of which a large number of corpses of people and animals were on the surface of the earth. Infections were spreading at an alarming rate, with new infections appearing every day. Nostradamus was invited to organize the fight against the plague. Using preventive measures andown medicines, he managed to stop the epidemic.
At the same time, he proved himself to be a skilled psychologist, having managed to raise the spirit of the population, using the church and biblical commandments for this. At the peak of the epidemic in the cities, services in churches did not stop, bells rang. And so people saw him as their savior. The Church and the Inquisition, having learned that Michel Nostradamus made her his ally to fight the plague, refused to persecute the doctor.
The second happiness and the first successes of the soothsayer
In 1547, Nostradamus moved to the small town of Salon-de-Provence. Here he marries a we althy widow named Anne Ponsard Gemella, who bore him 6 children: 3 sons and 3 daughters. In this calm and cozy place he will live until his death in 1566. All the riddles of Nostradamus, including predictions, refer to this time.
He began writing in 1549 and wrote until his death. From 1550, the first versions of his works began to be published. Nostradamus used the latest technology - the printing press. The initial works were far from predictive - they contained information about cosmetics and cooking. However, after some time, he began to use his deep knowledge of astrology and began to compile calendars of crops of agricultural plants and predict the time of sunrise and sunset. The works of Nostradamus were full of mystery and mysticism, therefore they instantly gained great popularity, and his personality itself acquired newincredible rumors.
The first predictions of Michel Nostradamus
Since 1554, Nostradamus began systematic work on writing a fundamental work that contained divination for many years to come. The book of Nostradamus was called "Centuries", or "Centuries". It was first published in 1555. Instantly, she won a stunning success in the reading environment. The collection consisted of two parts - the so-called "Messages": the first - to his son Cesar, the second - to King Henry II. The predictions consisted of quatrains-quatrains, numbering about 1000 pieces, and described future events, starting from 1559 and ending with the year 3797.
Immediately after the release of "Centuries" Nostradamus was summoned to the capital to the king's court. He was invited by the wife of the ruler Catherine de Medici. The reason for this was the prediction of the death of Henry II during a joust. As it turned out later, this prediction came true, after which Catherine left him at court, next to her. In 1565, the forecast came true regarding the clash of Christians and Muslims in M alta, during which Europe won a brilliant victory.
During his lifetime, another prophecy of Michel Nostradamus came true: he predicted the defeat of France from the army of Spain in 1557. The last prediction that came true during his lifetime was the words that at the dawn of the next day he would be gone. And so it happened, in July 1566 Nostradamus died.
Nostradamus Predictions for 2016
A large number of Michel's prophecies have already come true andis coming true at the present time. Scientists who have set the goal of studying the predictions of Nostradamus provide evidence of 90% of predictions that have already come true. The rest, they argue, are either not deciphered or did not take place in history. Some must come true at a certain time, including in 2016. So, what should happen this year, according to Nostradamus?
Natural disasters were predicted for 2016: first, fires will start that will cover the whole world, then as a result of the greenhouse effect, people will not see either the sun or the moon. After that, heavy rains will begin, and to top it all off, a comet will fall on the big city, which will serve as the beginning of an unprecedented tsunami. As a result, all continents will suffer, especially Australia and Oceania. However, not everything is so sad. It is at this time that a man and a new religion will appear in Russia, which will begin the spiritual unification of all mankind, and by 2040 all artificial borders separating peoples will disappear.
Significant shifts will take place in economics and technical sciences: firstly, a new source of renewable, easily accessible and cheap energy will be opened. In addition, scientists will implement the invention of Nikola Tesla - the transmission of electricity without wires. This will produce a coup and lead to the so-called. energy revolution.
In geopolitics, Nostradamus' predictions for 2016 also contain many interesting points. He says that the world will hang by a thread. The epicenter of events will be moved to the Middle East. Everything will start with a "fight" between Iran and Turkey, but after a while they will unite and "glance with anger" at Europe. The peacekeeping mission will be entrusted to Russia and African countries. If you look at the current political international situation, you can already see that some things have happened in the world. It was also predicted the expulsion of their own ruler in one of the countries, which in itself will surprise the whole world.
Michel Nostradamus still enjoys great authority in astrological circles. Predictions had a huge impact on the fate of some crowned persons at all times, starting from the second half of the 16th century. He predicted major cataclysms and events in history that changed the world and turned back time. There is probably no such person who has never heard of Nostradamus. All people here are divided into two large camps: the first are sure that Michel could really foresee events for millennia ahead; the second believe that he is an ordinary charlatan who wrote a complete confusion in which it is impossible to recognize specific events and names. Nevertheless, the fact of the huge influence of the ideas of Nostradamus on the development of medical science, astrology and divination should be recognized.
