CENTURIA V · QUATRAIN XV
The Poisoned Pontiff
En nauigant captif prins grand pontife,
Grans aprets faillir les clercz tumultuez:
Second esleu absent son bien debise,
Son favori bastard a mort tue.
Sailing, taken captive, the great high priest,
the great preparations fail, the clergy in tumult:
the second one elected, absent, divides up his goods,
his favorite bastard slain to death.
THE MASTER SAYS…
He says that this quatrain relates to the current Pope and how he constantly travels to different places on Earth to visit various parts of the Catholic Church. This exposes him to danger, because he cannot be protected. The cardinals and others were very concerned about this, but could do nothing about it, because the Pope insists. Nostradamus says that, looking into the mirror, he sees that someone will kill the Pope in a place where there were disturbances. The Church will be seized with confusion, and this may cause a schism. He says that this schism is still in question, but such a possibility exists. This relates to a possible schism in the church. He says that the power and influence of the church will continue to decline, and the number of its members will decrease. “The beloved bastard, executed” refers to events that may cause a schism. If this schism occurs, he says it will probably be connected with the issue of birth control. In process. All this will surface simultaneously, in essence. Everything, so to speak, will reach a climax. He wants to say that there were popes who died not a natural death. He says that the one who was in power for only a month… used some technologies with which he is not familiar. But he says that the equivalent in his time would be the slow accumulation of poison in the body. Perhaps it was a combination of slow poison and doses of radiation that caused his illness and death in a short period of time. At first the powers that be planned to leave him as pope for some time. But he came into conflict with those who controlled the situation behind the scenes. Therefore they organized his murder in a very skillful and sophisticated way.