December 14, 1503 in the small town of Saint-Remy in Provence, birthplace of the great astrologer and fortune teller Michel de Notre Dame known worldwide as Nostradamus.
Parenting Michel takes two of his grandfather, both doctors.Under their guidance, he had mastered the secrets of medicine and traditional healing, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, Kabbalah and alchemy.But most of all he was interested in mathematics and astrology.
Becoming a doctor, a young Nostradamus went to the province to fight raging plague epidemic then.Thanks to his knowledge, he was able to stop the epidemic in several major cities.Michelle came to glory and prosperity, he has got a family, but the happiness was short-lived.
In 1537 the city of Agen, where he settled doctor again an outbreak of plague.Nostradamus again saved thousands of lives, but the plague claimed the lives of his wife and children.Reputation doctor was ruined, besides envious accused Michel of heresy, and he became interested in the Inquisition.Nostradamus had to flee to Italy and hiding there for several years.It was at this time he woke up the prophetic gift.
In 1546, Nostradamus returned to Provence.Here again, the plague was raging, and the prophet go into battle with an old enemy.In fact, his intervention saved from death the entire south of France.Of the persecuted exile doctor turned into a national hero.The city fathers even appointed his life-long maintenance, and residents are literally bombarded him with gifts and other expressions of gratitude.Some time after that the doctor continued to move from town to town after the plague, until 45 years have not felt the urge to settled life and settled in Salon, where he married a rich widow Annie Pozar Gemel.It was here, in peace and quiet, Nostradamus began to write his astrological almanacs or "Centuries", the first of which came out in 1550.
Predictions prophet also brought nothing but trouble: five years later tried to arrest him in Paris, in 1556 Nostradamus had to flee again in Italy, and the last prophecy he wrote from there.The astrologer draws the "Centuries" to King Henry II, the predicted, among other things, his death at the tournament in 1559.Apparently, due to this and other predictions come true, Nostradamus was appointed in 1564 and a medical adviser to the court.
Nostradamus enjoyed a high post just two years: July 2, 1566, he died.But pretty soon it became clear that his predictions have a very long life.
These prophecies are full of symbols and allusions, complicating the interpretation, but by most accounts they materialize or come true.We will publish the "quatrains" Nostradamus and their possible interpretations.
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