The most famous of the soothsayers in the world over the past 500 years is a French doctor and astronomer named Michel Nostradamus. He went down in history as the conqueror of the plague and the lord of the times, inexplicably looking ahead 2000 years. And to this day, his foresights have received great attention and are studied with interest by many astrologers.
The birth of the future soothsayer
In December 1503, on the 14th, a boy was born in the French province of Provence in the family of Jacques Nostradamus, a notary in Saint-Remy and Rennes. He was named Michel de Notrdam. He was a Jew by father, 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 followers of the Gentiles could be outlawed and executed as heretics. Where Michel Nostradamus was born, Jewish families were threatened with expulsion. Therefore, the whole family of the future seer accepted the faith preached by the Pope and was baptized. That is why little Michel was given a surname in the Latin way - Nostradamus.
In the family on the paternal side of Nostradamus there were ancestors who were engaged in healing and predictions. By mother, relatives were representatives of 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 in the same way as other children at his age. As for education, it should be noted that not every family could afford it in medieval Europe, and therefore Michel Nostradamus received primary and secondary education at home. He was educated 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 the study of stars. Michelle was so carried away by astrology that already in childhood his friends and relatives called him a "little astrologer." Jean was able to give his grandson a very good and complete education by the standards of the 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 in 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 humanitarian cycle, such as logic, philosophy, grammar and rhetoric. The next 3 years he spends in the walls of the educational institution, after which one more 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 traveled around the country, studying healing 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 training, as a result of which he receives a bachelor's degree and only after that he goes to travel to his native country until 1529. However, the truth, most likely, we will not know, because the period of his life from 1921 to 1929 is shrouded in darkness.
First meeting with a lady named Plague
While traveling in 1526, he ended up in Aix. There he first met with the disease face to face. Since then, her study took all the time. After the first successful attempts to combat a dangerous epidemic, Michelle begins to treat the infected throughout France, and takes on those patients whom other doctors have already abandoned as hopelessly sick, leaving them to wait for their death. It was at this time that Michel Nostradamus invented the famous anti-plague remedy. It consisted of a set of aromatic herbs that needed to be placed under the tongue of those who were in the infection zone. In this terrible time for all of Europe, the fame of the plague winner spreads through the cities and villages of France.
Learning to the point 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 with the aim of obtaining a doctorate and a medical license. After paying tuition and an oath to comply with the charters 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 the doctors were enraged by the rejection of bloodletting and its recognition as life-threatening.
Dr. Nostradamus
At the time when his fate as a student hung in the balance, he did not give up his beliefs and made the fight against the plague his vocation. He suggested that if disinfection is carried out in infected places, the incidence can be reduced. Also, one book of Nostradamus revealed the secret of preparing an anti-plague infection remedy. One of his most famous inventions in those years was pills made of rose petals, rich in vitamin C. In large quantities, Nostradamus distributed this product on the streets and squares of infected cities. As a result of the undoubted successes in confronting the plague, they managed to settle the contradictions at the university, and already in 1534, at the age of 31, Michelle received a doctorate. From this event, his last name is spelled only Nostradamus.
Little happiness and crushing defeat in Agen
The result of the recognition of the merits of Nostradamus was an invitation to the city of Agen, one of the most significant scientists in Europe, called the "French Erasmus", in order to continue their studies. It was Jules Cesar Scaliger. It happened in 1536. At this time, Nostradamus married his beloved, who bore him two children. Everything turned out fine. But soon the white stripe was replaced by black. In Agen plague epidemic began. Michelle fought with her, but suffered a crushing defeat. In this battle, he lost his family. After that, disagreements with Scaliger began, old competitors and simply envious people called him a charlatan. But the worst thing is that Nostradamus is on the note of the Inquisition, he faces death.
At night, he flees from Agen and leaves the territory of France. The seven-year period of wanderings in Italy and Spain begins. The mysteries 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 appears in him.
How Nostradamus managed to turn the pursuer into his ally ...
1546 was a turning point in his life. The province of Provence experienced enormous difficulties, the plague epidemic there has reached catastrophic proportions and threatened with the complete destruction of the entire population. In the same year, a severe flood occurred, as a result of which a large number of corpses of people and animals appeared on the surface of the earth. Infections spread with terrible speed, new infected people appeared every day. Nostradamus was invited to organize the fight against the plague. Using preventive measures and his own medications, 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 cities, church services did not stop, bells rang. And so people saw in him their savior. The church and the Inquisition, having learned that Michel Nostradamus had 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 rich widow named Anne Ponsar Gemella, who bore him 6 children: 3 sons and 3 daughters. In this calm and comfortable place he will live until his death in 1566. All the mysteries of Nostradamus, including predictions, date back to this time.
He began writing activity in 1549 and wrote until his death. Since 1550, the first versions of his works began to be published. Nostradamus used the last word in technology - the printing press. The initial works were far from predictions - they contained information about cosmetics and cooking. However, after some time, he began to use his deep knowledge in astrology and began to compile calendars of crops of agricultural plants and predictions of the time of sunrise and sunset. The works of Nostradamus were full of mystery and mysticism, so they instantly gained great popularity, and his personality was overgrown with new incredible rumors.
The first predictions of Michel Nostradamus
Since 1554, Nostradamus began a 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 overwhelming success in the reading environment. The collection consisted of two parts - the so-called “Epistles”: the first to the son of Cesar, the second to King Henry II. 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 Century, Nostradamus was called into the capital to the court of the king. 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 knightly duel. As it turned out later, this forecast came true, after which Catherine left him at the court, next to her. In 1565, a forecast came true about the military clash of Christians and Muslims in Malta, during which Europe won a brilliant victory.
During his life, another prophecy of Michel Nostradamus came true: he predicted the defeat of France from the army of Spain in 1557. The last forecast that came true during his lifetime was the words that he would not be at dawn the next day. And so it happened, in July 1566 Nostradamus died.
Predictions of Nostradamus for 2016
A large number of Michel's prophecies have already come true and are being realized at the present time. Scientists who set the goal of studying the predictions of Nostradamus provide evidence of 90% of the forecasts that have already come true. The rest, they argue, are either not decrypted or did not have a place in history. Some should happen 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 begin 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 this, heavy rains will begin, and to top it all, a comet will fall on a big city, which will serve as the beginning of an unprecedented tsunami. As a result, all continents will be affected, especially Australia and Oceania. However, not everything is so sad. It was at this time that a man and a new religion would appear in Russia, which would begin the spiritual unification of all mankind, and by 2040 all the artificial borders separating the peoples would disappear.
Significant shifts will take place in economics and engineering: firstly, a new source of renewable, readily available and cheap energy will be discovered. In addition, scientists will implement the invention of Nikola Tesla - the transmission of electricity without wires. This will revolutionize and lead to the so-called. energy revolution.
In geopolitics, the predictions of Nostradamus for 2016 also contain many interesting points. He says that the world will hang in the balance. The epicenter of events will be moved to the Middle East. It will all start with a “fight” between Iran and Turkey, but after a while they will unite and “look with anger” at Europe. A peacekeeping mission will be entrusted to Russia and the countries of Africa. If you look at the current political international situation, you can already see that some moments in the world have occurred. 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 XVI century. He predicted major disasters and historical events that changed the world and turned back the clock. There is probably no such person who has never heard of Nostradamus. All people here were divided into two large camps: the first are convinced that Michelle could indeed have foreseen events for millennia in advance; the second consider 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 enormous influence of the ideas of Nostradamus on the development of medical science, astrology and divinatory activity should be recognized.