This quatrain foretelling the death of King Henry II of France in a jousting accident is one of the most famous, predocumented, and successfully fulfilled prophecies in history. Famous Fulfilled Prophecies
Death of Henry II
The young lion will overcome the older one,
On the field of combat in a single battle;
He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,
Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.
(Century 1, Quatrain 35)
In June 1559, Henry II ignored all warnings that Nostradamus gave him and participated in a jousting tournament against the Comte de Montgomery. Both men used shields embossed with lions. Montgomery was six years younger than Henry. A tournament is a field of ritual single combat.
During the final bout, Montgomery failed to lower his lance in time. It shattered, sending a large splinter through the king's gilded visor (golden cage). Along with minor punctures in the face and throat, there were two mortal wounds. One splinter destroyed the king's eye; the other impaled his temple just behind the eye. Both penetrated his brain. Henry lingered for ten agonizing days before dying a cruel death.
Think of images of the French Revolution, which technically began when the Bastille was attacked on July 14, 1789. Members of the aristocracy were imprisoned and some lost their heads -- as did the mob, metaphorically, while engaging in violent actions.
The French Revolution
From the enslaved people, songs, chants and demands,
The princes and lords are held captive in prisons:
In the future by such headless idiots
These will be taken as divine utterances.
(Century 1, Quatrain 14)
Murder. Book Depository. Oswald shot and assigned guilt, although there has been much controversy over this assessment. Grassy knoll. Gunfire. Jean Dixon's warning. Robert Kennedy shot at night time. Student riots in France and England. The Florence flood.
Kennedy Assassination(s)
The ancient work will be accomplished,
And from the roof evil ruin will fall on the great man:
They will accuse an innocent, being dead, of the deed:
The guilty one is hidden in the misty copse.
(Century 6, Quatrain 37)The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt,
The evil deed predicted by the bearer of a petition:
According to the prediction another falls at night,
Conflict in Reims, London, and pestilence in Tuscany.
(Century 1, Quatrain 27)
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and his predecessor, Primo de Rivera, are mentioned outright. In 1936, the leftist-leaning Republican government had Franco exiled to the Canary Islands. He later returned to Spain and organized a military junta. Spain was torn apart by a full-scale civil war.
The "Hister" Quatrains
Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing.
(Century 2, Quatrain 24)In the year very not far from Venus,
The two greatest ones of Asia and of Africa:
They are said to have come from the Rhine and from Hister
Cries, tears at Malta and the Ligurian sea-coast.
(Century 4, Quatrain 68)Liberty will not be regained,
It will be occupied by a black, proud, villainous and unjust man:
When the matter of the Pontiff is opened,
The republic of Venice will be vexed by Hister.
(Century 5, Quatrain 29)The shocking and infamous armed one will fear the great furnace,
First the chosen one, the captives not returning:
The world's lowest crime, the Angry Female Irale (Israel?) not at ease,
Barb, Hister, Malta, and the Empty One does not return.
(From Nostradamus' Almanac of 1557)
Francisco Franco
From Castille, Franco will bring out the assembly,
The ambassador will not agree and cause a schism:
The people of Rivera will be in the crowd,
And they will refuse entry into the Gulf
(Century 9, Quatrain 16)
[Most of the above is from: Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies by John Hogue.]
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