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hello diaryso i am back again and today i am going to talk about a very mysterious person who was able to see beyond unseen...well i am talking abt Michel de Nostredame popularly known as Nostradamus ,and in today's blog i am going to tell a little abt him ...i mean who is Nostradamus.
Michel de Nostradame, more commonly known as Nostradamus, was born on December 14, 1503, in St. Remy de Provence. He was a seer and a time traveler living in 2 realities. He also was adept in astrology and astronomy, and, along with his own clairvoyance. He used both sciences to interpret the visions he received in the secrecy of his study.

He was often refered to as the prophet of doom because of the visions he had involving death and war. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise to power of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. His prophetic vision....942 cryptic poems called "The Centuries" groups in sets of 100. A single verse is commonly called a quatrain and 100 quatrains a Centurie. They have enthralled generation after generation of readers. He predicted some of history's most monumental events from the Great Fire of London (1666) to the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger.

His parents were of simple lineage from around Avignon. Nostradamus was the oldest son, and had four brothers; of the first three we know little; the youngest, Jean, became Procureur of the Parliament of the Provence.

Growing up he spent much of his time learning languages, math, astronomy, and astrology from his grandfather, Jean. Later he attended the University at Avignon where he studied liberal arts. Afterwards, he graduated from the medical school at the University of Montpellier and began a private practice where he succeeded at treating plague victims in Montpellier and the surrounding areas.
that was the age of the Inquisition and the family were converted from Judaism to the Catholic faith.althouh he was a jewish by birth but the fear of survival in that age led them to convert their religion.

Around 1534 he married and began a family. Tragically, the plague which he had been so successful in treating previously took the lives of his wife and two children.
Distraught and pursued by the Inquisition, Nostradamus packed his bags and traveled throughout Italy and France for the next six years.

He eventually settled down in the town of Salon, France in 1554 where he married his second wife, Anne Ponsart Gemelle, with whom he raised six children - three boys and three girls.
After 1550 he produced a yearly Almanac - and after 1554 The Prognostications - which seem to have been successful, and encouraged him to undertake the much more onerous task of the Prophecies. He converted the top toom of his house at Salon into a study and as he tells us in the Prophecies, worked there at night with his occult books. The main source of his magical inspirations was a book called De Mysteriis Egyptorum.

By 1555 Nostradamus had completed the first part of his book of prophecies that were to contain predictions from his time to the end of the world. The word Century has nothing to do with one hundred years; it was so called because there were a hundred verses or quatrains in each book. The verses are written in a crabbed, obscure style, with a polyglot of vocabulary of French, Provencal, Italian, Greek and Latin. In order to avoid being prosecuted as a magician, Nostradamus writes that he deliberately confused the time sequence of the Prophecies so that their secrets would not be revealed to the non-initiate.

pretty soon he bacame very famous and religious cult of the socaiety started taking him very seriouslyproclaiming he is somehow related to devil and he is the son of evil.
some people used to think that Nostradamus used to talk to an angel called anal to predict abt future.

his prophecies became a rage and then queen of france Catherine de Medici, asked him to meet her in the palace she asked him some questions regarding future king and the death of current king etc.for for abt 45 days they summoned for angel anal and at last he appeared after 45 days and by the order of queen he asked his to tell the future abt her and her sons . the queen saw three kids in a crystal bowl , all of them were wearing the crown of france but to her utter amazement all of them disappeared one by one,and after sometimes the face of her son in law appeared in the crystal bowl n then his face blinked in that bowl for abt 23 times , Catherine was frightened to death coz she understood every bit of this ongoing drama and hence stopped Nostradamus for showing anything more.in the future his prediction was found to be true. the sons of Catherine de Medicidied one by one and then her son in law became the king and ruled france for 23 years by the name of henry vth

he used to write his predictions in the form of quatrain(para consisting 4 lines) also called Propheciestose predictions who were not related to any religious belief ,he used to tell them to people openly

Soon afterwards Nostradamus was warned that the Justices of Paris were inquiring about his magic practices, and he swiftly returned to Salon. From this time on, suffering from gout and arthritis, he seems to have done little except draw up horoscopes for his many distinguished visitors and complete the writing of the Prophecies. Apparently he allowed a few manuscript copies to criculate before publication, because many of the predictions were understood and quoted before the completed book came off the printing press in 1568, two years after his death.
But by now the gout from which Nostradamus suffered was turning to dropsy and he, the doctor, realized that his end was near. He made his will on 17th June 1566 and left the large sum, for those days, of 3444 crowns over and above his other possessions.
On July 1, 1566 Nostradamus offered his final prediction to his priest. In response to the priest's farewell of "Until tomorrow," Nostradamus is said to have answered: "You will not find me alive at sunrise."
Nostradamus died that night.
well there are some more amazing facts abt him ,i think i'll write them in my next blog ok
byeee

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