Most scholars consider the document a 16th-century elaborate hoax. Indeed, Pope Urban VI (1378-1389) was born Domenico Prignano and came from a village near Naples called Inferno (hell). The 45th pope in the prophecy is described as coming "from the hell of Pregnani". Malachy predicted another pope would be "elevated from a hermit." Nicholas IV, pope from 1288 to 1292, had been a hermit in the monastery of Pouilles. PHOTOS: 2012 Doomsday and Other Signs of the End Times Often highly enigmatic, several prophetical announcements in the document appear to have come true.įor example, Malachy prophesied the first pope on his list would be "from a castle on the Tiber." Celestine II, elected in 1143, was born in Toscany on the shores of the Tiber River. It ends with the 112th pope, named "Petrus Romanus" or "Peter the Roman."Īccording to the premonition, Peter the Roman would "feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the City of the Seven Hills shall be utterly destroyed, and the awful Judge will judge the people." The prophecy consists of brief, cryptic phrases in Latin about each Pope.
It was rediscovered and published by Benedictine Arnold de Wyon in 1590. Malachy gave the apocalyptic list to Innocent II and that the document remained unknown in the Vatican Archives some 440 years after Malachy's death in 1148. The list of popes originated from a vision Malachy said he received from God when he was in Rome, reporting on his diocese to Pope Innocent II. The document predicted that there would be only 112 more popes before the Last Judgment - and Benedict XVI is 111. Malachy, an Irish archbishop canonized in 1190, the Prophecy of the Popes would date to 1139. Is the world only a Pope away from the End? Yes, if you believe a chilling 12th-century prophecy.Īttributed to St.
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