Nostradamus
The goth
Quatrain 1/42
Les dix Kalendes d’Avril de fait Gotique
Ressuscité encor par gens malins,
Le feu estaint, assemleee diabolique,
Cerchant les os du d’Amant & Pselin,
The ten Kalends of April, calculated in the Gothic fashion
are revived again by the wicked people.
The fire is put out and the diabolic gathering
seeks the bones of the lover and Psellus.
UPDATE
Nostradamus wrote his prophecies to communicate with ‘the Gaul’ across time and space, and to give him the information he needed to fulfil his role.
In what is undoubtedly the mother of all temporal paradoxes, Nostradamus’ prophecies are based on visions of ‘the Gaul’ in action, while ‘the Gaul’ acted as he did because of Nostradamus’ prophecies. But, which came first, prophecies or actions?
We can reduce the Bogamil Easter Rite and the tenth day of the Kalends of April to the same date, albeit with some manipulation. Easter Sunday falls on the 5th of April in 2026 in accordance with the Western Christian Tradition.
Nostradamus, who lived before the changes introduced by Pope Gregory, used the Julian Calendar and calculated the date for Easter differently. In the Julian Calendar, 5 April 2026 is 23 March 2026, and it is not Easter Sunday.
On the other hand, 23 March 2026 is the tenth day before the Kalends of April calculated in the Ancient Roman manner.
I knew this quatrain referred to the near fatal wounding of the Goth, but I thought it also gave the date for the earthquake in California. Was I right?
We’ll know within a matter of hours.
Quatrain 1/42 is one of the most important prophecies of Nostradamus. It introduces the Goth – the English speaker who leaves Asia and to settle in Southern France. As the quatrain suggests, he has a great impact on Christianity and the development of the Catholic Church. But this quatrain may have a second meaning; it may give the date of the great earthquake in California.
Michael Psellus: Michael Constantine Psellus (1018-1078) was an advisor to the Byzantine Court and a professor of philosophy. He mentions the Bogomil Easter Rite in On the Operations of the Demons, describing it in the following terms:-
‘They bring together, in a house appointed for the purpose, young girls whom they have initiated into their rites. Then, they extinguish the candles, so that the light shall not be witness to their abominable deeds, and throw themselves lasciviously on the girls; each on whoever falls into his hands, no matter whether she be his sister, his daughter or his mother For they think they are doing something that pleases the demon by transgressing god’s law.
… When this rite is over, each goes home, and after waiting nine months, until the time has come for the unnatural children of such unnatural seed to be born, they come together again in some place. There on the third day after the birth, they tear the miserable babies from their mothers’ arms. They cut the tender flesh with sharp knives and catch the stream of blood in basins. They throw the babies, still breathing and gasping onto the fire, to be burned to ashes. After which, they mix the ashes with the blood in the basins and so make an abominable drink, with which they secretly pollute their [unsuspecting Christians] food and drink.’
quoted in The Devil: A Biography
Orthodox Easter 2024: In 2024, Orthodox Easter fell on 5 May according to the Gregorian Calendar, or April 22 according to the Julian Calendar.
Nostradamus may be suggesting that San Francisco will be destroyed by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Saturday 4 January 2025 (Julian) or 17 January 2025 (Gregorian), i.e. ten days after Christmas or the birth of the child.
It is currently late morning on 17 January 2025 in San Francisco. If this interpretation is correct – and Nostradamus is right – the city will be destroyed later today
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