Followers of St. Malachy, a Dark ages Irish monk who prophesized the end of the papacy in the 21st century, believe that the Pope who succeeds John Paul II will be the second to last one.
Rev. antonio Hernandez, author and Founder of the Independent Order of american Buddhist Fathers, believes that the two last popes, described by St. Malachy may be one and the same.
at the time of his death in 1148 a.D. St. Malachy was discovered to have left behind a prophetic list of all future popes, beginning with Pope Celestine II.
Nostradamus-like, Malachy included a single line in Latin identifying a characteristic of each pope, and as time would prove was eerily accurate.
Says Fr. Hernandez of what is believed to be Malachy's fourth-to-last entry, De Medietate Lunae, `(He of the Half-Moon, has been clearly determined to have been John Paul 1. This entry is one of Malachy's richest and most intriguing: JP1 had a smile that was compared to a half-moon. His reign, a total of 33 days, was exactly from half-moon to half-moon. His first name, albino, is derived from the vulgate Latin for "moonlight". and least probably, it is said he was poisoned by the light of the half-moon."
What did St. Malachy say in his predictions about the beloved late John Paul II?
Interpreted by Rev. Hernandez: "The third-to-last is De Labore Solis, `(He) of the Labor of the Sun'. There has been even less doubt that this clearly identifies the present pontiff, John Paul II. The name, wrongly translated as "He of the eclipsed sun", brings to mind the Dark ages concept of the sun's "labor": to cross the sky, cover the world with its rays, and force the moon to retreat. Pope John Paul II has indeed crossed the skies, traveling to other countries and bathing the world in his "rays". He also forced the moon out: JP1 often told his family that he would have to die to make room for the "foreign pope". We also see "labore solis" as "toil under the sun". Karol Wojtyla certainly did this, laboring in a rock quarry as a young man."
Fr. Hernandez could now add to this account the funeral of John Paul II, on a day, which started off as overcast. When the sun finally broke through the clouds, its rays seemed to settle first on the pontiff's oak coffin.
Fr. Hernandez's theory about Malachy's prophecy for the last pope being one and the same is interesting.
"St. Malachy's last entry is Petrus Romanus, easily translated as "Peter the Roman". It is my belief that De Gloriae Olivae `(He That is) Of The Glory of the Olives) and Petrus Roman might be one and the same pope. Peter the Roman is the only entry that has an accompanying verse, and the way the Glory of Olives and Peter the Roman are presented causes some doubt about them being separate entries. Petrus Romanus is the last pope, and the commentary states that in his time the world will see the end of the Catholic Church as we know it, and certainly the end of the papacy. St. Malachy follows up Glory of Olives so closely with Peter the Roman that it could almost be a double nickname, also something St. Malachy had not done with any other name. The Glory of the Olives, Peter the Roman. It has a suitably Latin, romantic, tragic ring.
"It is easy to see how Malachy's De Gloriae Olivae and Petrus Romanus could be the same person. a "fulfilled" Jew, powerful in the Catholic Church, a "citizen" of Rome, a convert who believes in both his essential Jewishness and his Christianity–it describes both Simon Peter and Jean-Marie) Cardinal Lustiger, (archbishop of Paris, who retired in 2004).
"at the end of the day, anyone familiar with Cardinal Lustiger cannot fail to see the irony of how the cardinal has been crucified by some in the media, by some Jews and Christians alike. Crucified upside down like Simon Peter, because he felt unworthy, Cardinal Lustiger has said he is not worthy to be pope, and prays he will die before he becomes a candidate."
The gathering of the Conclave of Cardinals on april 18 could prove St. Malachy's prophecy.
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