2020 Nostradamus

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(eerie music)

- [Voiceover] Reality Films.

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- [Narrator] His name

was Michel de Nostredame,

and he was born in 1503 in

Saint-Rmy-de-Provence, France.

He's known better

as Nostradamus,

the apothecary and seer

who published his

collections of prophecies.

From the rise of Adolph Hitler

to the nuclear destruction

of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From the terrorist attacks of

2001 to the end of the world,

Nostradamus has

always been there.

But all of these prophecies

were discovered after he died,

after he had written them

down, and after the events.

- [Voiceover] The day

of doom is coming!

- [Narrator] Now

then, his quatrains

are predicting our

own immediate future:

The fall of technology,

and the almost total destruction

of mankind as we know it;

the rise of a huge Islamic

army led by the antichrist

that will begin a

third world war;

the invasion of the West

by the Chinese hordes.

All of these and more

are being discovered

in the writings of a man

from 16th century France.

Now we are seeing

the interpretations

of his predictions

before the events.

The question is:
is it true?

Are we about to witness

the most cataclysmic era

in mankind's history?

The world of Nostradamus

was a world of secrecy.

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He spent years building around

himself an aura of mystery.

He claimed that the

danger of his own time

required that his

words were written down

in enigmatic sentences that

he called cloudy obscurity.

In 1558, a text stated

about Nostradamus

that he was:
"a certain

brainless and lunatic idiot

"who is shouting

nonsense and publishing

"his prognostications and

fantasies on the streets."

The astrologer Laurens

Videl wrote in his

"Declaration of the

Abuses, Ignorances

"and Seditions of

Michel Nostradamus"

that, "If I wanted to

recite all the ignorances,

"errors and idiocies that

you have been putting

"in your works for the

last four or five years,

"it would need a

pretty big book."

Ever since the publication

of his first book in 1555,

it has almost never

been out of print.

It is said he predicted

worldwide events,

births, catastrophes,

and even world wars.

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Most academics say that any

associations with real events

and the prophecies of

this 16th century man

are purely coincidental,

mistranslations,

or are so thin as it takes

nothing to make them snap.

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But is this the truth?

As we are now well

into the 21st century,

could there be prophecies

that have new meaning?

Could there be a new

science to explain

just how Nostradamus

predicted the future?

Indeed, there are

predictions that he made

and which are fast approaching.

Better now to know

the truth before.

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We will begin by taking

a look at his life.

Michel de Nostredame was one

of at least nine children

of the notary Jaume de

Nostredame and Reynire,

the granddaughter of a

physician in Saint-Remy.

His father's family

had been Jewish

but had converted to Catholicism

and taken the surname

Nostredame, meaning 'our lady'.

There is very little known

about the childhood

of Nostradamus.

We know that at the age of 15

he entered the

University of Avignon,

stayed there for one year,

and then was forced to leave

when the plague broke out

and the university

closed its doors.

According to the

accounts of Nostradamus,

he then proceeded to travel

the countryside for eight years

as he researched

herbal remedies.

He then entered the

University of Montpelier

to study medicine.

He was then expelled for

practicing apothecary

and slandering other doctors.

The actual document

still exists.

And so, even though

his publishers would

call him doctor,

the truth is that

he never made it.

He continued life

as an apothecary,

and became widely known for

his invention, the rose pill,

which apparently protected

against the plague.

By 1531, he was so well known

that a leading man

of the Renaissance

invited him to Agen, where he

married and had two children.

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His new wife and children

died in 1534 from the plague,

his rose pill presumably

being of no use.

He then traveled again

across France and into Italy.

In 1545, he then

returned to France

and became the assistant

of a famous physician

in his fight against the

plague in Marseilles.

He then moved on to his home

town and region to do the same.

In 1547, he finally settled

down in Salon-de-Provence,

married a rich widow

named Ann Ponsarde,

and had three sons

and three daughters.

After a visit to Italy,

Nostradamus decided to

move away from medicine,

and steered himself

towards the occult world.

He wrote an almanac in 1550,

and this is the

first time his name

becomes Nostradamus

and not Nostredame.

It was a success, and so

he decided to continue.

In total, he wrote

over 6,000 prophecies.

Soon he was coming to the

attention of the nobility

who began ordering

their horoscopes

and asking for psychic advice.

He then proceeded to do

something very strange:

he would write a book

containing 1,000 quatrains

of undated prophecies.

These are the prophecies he

is now known for worldwide.

And it is because

these are undated

that they remain open

to interpretation

in every generation.

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He believed what he was doing

was against the religious

rules of the day,

and so he obscured

what he was doing.

He mixed the languages,

using Greek, Latin,

Italian and Provencal,

and used word games.

In truth, he would have

had to have practiced magic

to upset the Inquisition;

prophecy and astrology

were permitted.

His book, The Prophecies,

had a mixed reception.

Some believed he was

a servant of Satan.

Others believed

him to be insane.

But others thought

him enlightened.

Many of these were from elite

families, such as the Medicis.

Catherine de Medici

summoned him to Paris

after she read about his omen

of threats to the

royal families.

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She had him draw up

horoscopes for her family.

She made him councilor,

and physician to her son,

who would be Charles

IX of France.

Nostradamus suffered from

gout, a type of arthritis,

and in 1566 it was making

movement problematic.

In June of that year, he

was drawing up his will.

By July the 1st, he

told his secretary,

"You will not find

me alive at sunrise."

The following morning,

he was found dead.

It seemed this was one

prophecy he did get right.

But the man left behind

a vast volume of work,

and it is to these prophecies

that we now must turn.

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There are many problems

with the works.

Firstly, the typesetting or

printing in those early days

was done by word of mouth, and

so each no edition different.

We cannot assume

that the spelling,

of words for instance,

contain codes.

Since his death, there

have been over 200 editions

of his prophecies, and they

remain as popular today

as they were in

his own lifetime.

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