> I can't put my hands on it at the moment, but it is my
> recollection that  Bernard of Clairvaux's life of
> St. Malachy the Irishman presents M as --
> among other things -- a prophet.

Indeed, it is so. And some disturbing prophecies there are, for those of
our brethren who follow the Catholic faith of Rome since Malachy's
prophecies allow for only one or two more Popes before the Second
Coming!


"The Last Pope: The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome:
The Prophecies of St. Malachy for the New Millennium"

Synopsis
According to the prophecies of St. Malachy, only two popes remain before
the Holy Church will go through an Apocalypse. In this controversial and
definitive study Hogue examines St. Malachy and other gifted saints,
popes, monks, and nuns who have been responsible for a covert tradition
of prophecy that the Vatican has never officially acknowledged. "The
Last Pope" is a unique prophetic examination of papal history--past and
future. Four-color insert. 16 b&w plates and line drawings.

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John Hogue, a leading authority on Nostradamian prophecy, turns his
analytical skills to the 111 Latin mottoes of Malachy of Ireland, a
12th-century bishop who is said to have predicted the succession of
popes from Celestine II to the end of the Catholic church. Hogue
integrates prophecy and history like a master fencer wields a rapier and
dagger, adding just a touch of wry humor--who else but Hogue would
compare Saint Bernard and the 12th-century monastic movement to Elvis
Presley and rock 'n' roll? "The Last Pope" succeeds on many levels: as a
comprehensive history of the papacy, as an examination of the prophecy
of Saint Malachy, and as an assessment of the history and potential
future of Catholicism. --Brian Patterson
__________

And something which I have in my computer files, I know not from where,
but most likely the source is the Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1913.... Fr
Ambrose

Prophecies of St. Malachy
Concerning Ireland

This prophecy, which is distinct from the prophecies attributed to St.
Malachy concerning the popes, is to the effect that his beloved native
isle would undergo at the hands of England oppression, persecution, and
calamities of every kind, during a week of centuries; but that she would
preserve her fidelity to God and to His Church amidst all her trials. At
the end of seven centuries she would be delivered from her oppressors
(or oppressions), who in their turn would be subjected to dreadful
chastisements, and Ireland would be instrumental in bringing back the
British nation to that Divine Faith which Protestant England had, during
three hundred years, so rudely endeavoured to wrest from her. This
prophecy is said to have been copied by the learned Dom Mabillon from an
ancient manuscript preserved at Clairvaux, and transmitted by him to the
martyred successor of Oliver Plunkett.

And Concerning the Popes........

The most famous and best known prophecies about the popes are those
attributed to St. Malachy. In 1139 he went to Rome to give an account of
the affairs of his diocese to the pope, Innocent II, who promised him
two palliums for the metropolitan Sees of Armagh and Cashel. While at
Rome, he received (according to the Abbe Cucherat) the strange vision of
the future wherein was unfolded before his mind the long list of
illustrious pontiffs who were to rule the Church until the end of time.
The same author tells us that St. Malachy gave his manuscript to
Innocent II to console him in the midst of his tribulations, and that
the document remained unknown in the Roman Archives until its discovery
in 1590 (Cucherat, "Proph. de la succession des papes", ch. xv). They
were first published by Arnold de Wyon, and ever since there has been
much discussion as to whether they are genuine predictions of St.
Malachy or forgeries. The silence of 400 years on the part of so many
learned authors who had written about the popes, and the silence of St.
Bernard especially, who wrote the "Life of St. Malachy", is a strong
argument against their authenticity, but it is not conclusive if we
adopt Cucherat's theory that they were hidden in the Archives during
those 400 years.

These short prophetical announcements, in number 112, indicate some
noticeable trait of all future popes from Celestine II, who was elected
in the year 1130, until the end of the world. They are enunciated under
mystical titles. Those who have undertaken to interpret and explain
these symbolical prophecies have succeeded in discovering some trait,
allusion, point, or similitude in their application to the individual
popes, either as to their country, their name, their coat of arms or
insignia, their
birth-place, their talent or learning, the title of their cardinalate,
the dignities which they held etc. For example, the prophecy concerning
Urban VIII is Lilium et Rosa (the lily and the rose); he was a native of
Florence and on the arms of Florence figured a fleur-de-lis; he had
three bees emblazoned on his escutcheon, and the bees gather honey from
the lilies and roses. Again, the name accords often with some remarkable
and rare circumstance in the pope's career; thus Peregrinus apostolicus
(pilgrim pope), which designates Pius VI, appears to be verified by his
journey when pope into Germany, by his long career as pope, and by his
expatriation from Rome at the end of his pontificate. Those who have
lived and followed the course of events in an intelligent manner during
the pontificates of Pius IX, Leo XIII, and Pius X cannot fail to be
impressed with the titles given to each by the prophecies of St. Malachy
and their wonderful appropriateness: Crux de Cruce (Cross from a Cross)
Pius IX; Lumen in caelo (Light in the Sky) Leo XIII; Ignis ardens
(Burning Fire) Pius X. There is something more than coincidence in the
designations given to these three popes so many hundred years before
their time. We need not have recourse either to the family names,
armorial bearings or cardinalatial titles, to see the fitness of their
designations as given in the prophecies. The afflictions and crosses of
Pius IX were more than fell to the lot of his predecessors; and the more
aggravating of these crosses were brought on by the House of Savoy whose
emblem was a cross. Leo XIII was a veritable
luminary of the papacy. The present pope is truly a burning fire of zeal
for the restoration of all things to Christ.

The last of these prophecies concerns the end of the world and is as
follows: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will
reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations,
after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful
Judge will judge the people. The End." It has been noticed concerning
Petrus Romanus, who
>according to St. Malachy's list is to be the last pope, that the
prophecy does not say that no popes will intervene between him and his
predecessor designated Gloria olivoe. It merely says that he is to be
the last, so that we may suppose as many popes as we please before
"Peter the Roman". Cornelius a Lapide refers to this prophecy in his
commentary "On the Gospel
of St. John" (C. xvi) and "On the Apocalypse" (cc. xvii-xx), and he
endeavours to calculate according to it the remaining years of time.
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