The Brothers

Century 5, Quatrain 50

L'an que les Freres du lys seront en aage,
L'vn d'eux tiendra la grande Romanie:
Trembler les monts, ouuert Latin passage,
Pache macher contre fort d'Armenie.

The year that the brothers of the lily come of age,
One of them will hold the great "Romania":
The mountains to tremble, Latin passage opened,
Agreement to march against the fort of Armenia.

Century 8, Quatrain 17

Les bien aisez subit seront desmis
Par les trois freres le monde mis en trouble,
Cité marine saisiront ennemis,
Faim, feu, sang, peste & de tous maux le double.

Those at ease will suddenly be cast down,
The world put into trouble by three brothers;
Their enemies will seize the marine city,
Hunger, fire, blood, plague, all evils doubled.

Century 8, Quatrain 46

Pol mensolee mourra trois lieues du Rosne,
Fuis les deux prochains tarasc destrois:
Cas Mars fera le plus horrible throsne,
De coq & d'aigle de France, freres trois.

Paul the celibate will die three leagues from Rome,
The next two flee the oppressed Tarascan monster.
For Mars will make the most horrible throne,
Of the Cock and the Eagle of France, three brothers.

Of the three popes named Paul who have been elected since 1555, only Paul VI died six leagues from Rome -- at Castel Gandolfo, summer residence of the pope.

Tarascon is a town named after a monster, the Tarasca, according to John Hogue. Bardo Kidogo has an interesting "take" on the meaning of the Tarascan monster. Tarragon, the plant, is known scientifically as Artemisia dracunculus. Another member of that plant family is Artemisia absinthium, more commonly: wormwood. Chernobyl (or "Chornobyl") is Ukrainian for wormwood.

"There will be great differences between the three brothers, and then there will be such great cooperation and agreement between them that the three and four parts of Europe will tremble. The youngest of them will sustain and augment the Christian monarchy, and under him sects will be elevated, and suddenly cast down, Arabs will be driven back, kingdoms united and new laws promulgated.

"The oldest one will rule the land whose escutcheon is that of the furious crowned lions with their paws resting upon intrepid arms.

"The one second in age, accompanied by the Latins, will penetrate far, until a second furious and trembling path has been beaten to the Great St. Bernard Pass. From there he will descend to mount the Pyrenees, which will not, however, be transferred to the French crown. And this third one will cause a great inundation of human blood, and for a long time Lent will not include March.

"The daughter will be given for the preservation of the Christian Church. Her lord will fall into the pagan sect of the new infidels. Of her two children, one will be faithful to the Catholic Church, the other an infidel.

"The unfaithful son, who, to his great confusion and later repentance, will want to ruin her, will have three widely scattered regions, namely, the Roman, Germany and Spain, which will set up diverse sects by armed force. The 50th to the 52nd degree of latitude will be left behind.

"And all will render the homage of ancient religions to the region of Europe north of the 48th parallel. The latter will have trembled first in vain timidity but afterwards the regions to its west, south and east will tremble. But the nature of their power will be such that what has been brought about by concord and union will prove insuperable by warlike conquests.

"In nature they will be equal, but very different in faith."

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