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Michel de Nostredame (depending on the source 14 or December 21, 1503 - July 2, 1566), usually Latinized as Nostradamus was a physician and consultant astrological origin Provencal Jewish, considered one of the most famous authors of prophecies. Les Prophéties his prophetic work was first published in 1555.

Since the publication of the book, many people have been attracted by its mysterious verses (usually written in quatrains). Most of his supporters are adamant that Nostradamus predicted all disasters in the world, from his time until the future year 3797, when he assumed that pass the end of the world. He also collaborated with the French aristocracy, preparing horoscopes for Queen Catherine de Medici and finally being assigned as physician to the royal court by Charles IX.

In contrast, many of the scientific sources [citation needed] claim that the relationship between world events and Nostradamus is the result of translation and tendentious interpretations, in order to fully match with the events that occur every day. Therefore, there is no accurate evidence that Michel de Nostradamus really has made predictions which are advertised as having a clear identification in the end time.

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Merchant's son Jaume de Nostredame, Nostredame Michel was born December 14, 1503 in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, southern France. His Jewish origin paternal grandfather, called Emilio, belonged to the Jewish people, his family became, at least externally, to the Roman Catholic religion as the authorities of Provence insisted that Jewish citizens to convert to this confession.

As a child, Nostradamus showed an aptitude for mathematics and astrology. In fact, teachers are often offended by the support they showed to the theories presented by Copernicus in astronomy.

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At the age of 15, Michel entered the University of Avignon in France to study high school. For a year, he managed to prove the Trivium-union existing in the medieval period of three subjects: grammar, rhetoric and logical, after which time he was on the need to find a new institution which continue their studies because of the closing of Avignon by the Black Death epidemic continued during that time. Years later, he entered the University of Montpellier to study medicine, and completed his baccalaureate examinations in 1525.

The appearance of the bubonic plague again interrupted his studies, and was forced to travel around France helping the sick through structuring better diets in the feeding and clothing of bed, water and well-groomed corridors.

While he was traveling he met and exchanged information with several doctors, alchemists, Kabbalists and Renaissance mystics underground. They apothecary their knowledge as you were useful to create the "pink pill", which was highly acclaimed at the time to offer a medical solution for the plague to apparently contain a strong dose of vitamin C.

In 1530 returns to Montpellier to receive his doctorate, but the conservative university expelled him to find his previous job as apothecary, an aspect strictly prohibited by the statutes of the university-.1

After his expulsion, Michel returned to practice his skills as an apothecary frightened by existing plague society.

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In 1531, Michel was invited by the physician Julius Caesar Scaliger (known as Julius Caesar Scaliger in the Spanish literary tradition) to go to the town of Agen, where he married a woman whose name is still under dispute (possibly Henriette d'Encausse as It is also discussed Anna de Cabrejas, a Catalan young, Perpignan), with which it had two children. In 1537 his wife and two children, presumably because of the plague died. At that time, Scaliger had a dispute with him, and Church authorities asked him to face the Inquisition in Toulouse by a rude comment made on the completion of a statue of the Virgin Mary.

In 1545 he went to physical Louis Serre to combat an outbreak of plague in the community of Marseille, and then continue in their attempt to eradicate it in the regions of Salon-de-Provence and Aix-en-Provence, being the first which would establish his residence, which dwell until his death.

Upon settling in Salon-de-Provence, in 1547 he married a wealthy widow named Anne Ponsarde Gemelle. During this period, Michel began to move away from medicine to approach the occult. With its supposed ability to predict the future, he wrote a series of annual calendars (the first being published in 1550), where he started using the Latin version of his real name, referring now as Nostradamus. It was thanks to his success was motivated to continue writing more frequently such publications.

Following the successful prophetic serial publications, many French people from remote regions Nostradamus began to contact in order to know what might bring them in later life through horoscopes. Due to the growing number of "customers", he decided to initiate a project to write a book consisting of 1000 quatrains, known as centuries, 2 which consisted of prophetic verses which spread the information contained in previous calendars. However, with the intention of avoiding a controversy leading to possible clashes with the Inquisition, he invented a method to obscure prophecies of the book using puns and mixing languages ​​such as Provencal, Greek, Latin, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic.

It is published its full written under the name Prophecies work, many began to criticize its contents, saying it constituted information obtained from the demon, and classifying Nostradamus as a heretic. Conversely, certain social sectors supported the publication, giving a distinctive spiritual significance, considering the work as a post-bible true.

Meanwhile Catherine de Medici - wife of King Henry II of France - held as one of the biggest fans of Nostradamus after reading each of their almanacs published. Because of this, he invited him to Paris to ask about the future of their children through horoscopes.

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By 1566, the disease contracted by Nostradamus became edema. On July 1 at sunset, he said to his secretary, Jean de Chavigny, who "would not find alive until dawn."

The specialist in his work and life, Peter Lemesurier, in his book Nostradamus, Bibliomancer: The Man, the Myth, the Truth shows how much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient apocalyptic prophecies (mainly Bible-based) supplemented by references to historical events and anthologies of omens, and then projected into the future, partly with the help of comparative horoscope. Hence the many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla, Gaius Marius, Nero and others as well as their descriptions of battles "in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky."
His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as medieval chroniclers, as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart. Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word, of Livre de l'estat et des temps mutations Richard Roussat.
One of his main prophetic sources was obviously the Mirabilis Liber, 1522, containing a series of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Sibyl Tiburtina, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others (his Preface contains 24 biblical quotations, all but two in the order used by Savonarola). This book has had considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions, but no great influence, probably because its text was written mostly in Latin, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations. Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain its popularity. It notes that modern views of plagiarism were not applied in the 16th century Authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgment, especially the classics. The latest research suggests that it may indeed be used Bibliomancy.

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