The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-23
MALAcH1's PROPHECIES
Italy Is Quietly Laughing at France
Over Its Alarm at lncresse
Of Population In
Tunls.
[By Henry wood, Rome correspon.

ROME. Sept. 23.-Father Pietre
Prcdecca, priest Of Venice, has JUS
discovered another very important as
poet OF the part which the figure 49,
is popularity supposed to have played
and still plays In the life OF Pope
Plus x.
This is nothing less than the fac,
that according to the prophecies Of
Saint Malachi. Pope Plus is the ninth
from the last of the popes who will
ever reign over the Holy See. The
discovery of the Venetian father is
being received with great belief
amongst the superstitious part OF the
italian population whose faith in the
prophecies Of Saint Malachi has in
the past only been equalled by It's
faith in the all controlling part which
the figure nine has to do with the life
and career Of the present pope.
AS far as to figure nine Is concern
ed, however, Pope Plus himself ranks
amongst its most ardent adherents
According to the belief. the entire life
Of his holiness is to be divided into
pesiods OF nine years just as 1t always
has been in the past AS a young
man, just after taking the orders of
the church, his holiness served for
nine years as q village priest; then
came nine years as chancellor OF
the diocese; nine years as bishop;
nine years as archbishop; nine years
as cardinal, and last year he complet-
ed his ninth year as pope. When,
however, any period of his life ran
over nine years, 1t simply meant that
he was to fill such office for another
nine year period, and so according to
the believers in the legend. his hoI-
ness will reign for eight years more
That the reign of Pope Plus, how
ever. Is chronicled on the list prophe-
cied by Saint Malachi as the ninth
from the last has just come to light
and this new entrance into the If.
OF his holiness OF the figure nine is
having no little effect at the present
dAhOnSSI GC1 lcil SldSScS III
Italy of bolstering up their faith In
the Malachi predictions Malachi, who
was born in Ireland in 1904 and died
in 114S In the arms OF his friend Saint
Bernard, left behind prophecy char
acterizing the reign of all Of the pom
tiffs, from that OF the contemporary
one, Pope Celestin ri who died in
1870, down to the last pontff who
should ever reign on the throne OF
Saint Peters.
Each Of these characterization pro
phecies consisted simply of two Latin
words. but In the case Of every past
pontiff. 1t is declared by many that
these predictions, in one way Or an
other, have been fulfilled. For in.
stance, for the prediction "Montium
Gustus,' came Pope Alexander VII of
the Chigi family who had for his coat
of arms three mounds and who insti.
tuted the Monte di Pieta (the govern
ment pawn shop). Flores Circum.
dati' correspondent with the reign OF
Clement xI. Of Che Albani family.
whose coat Of arms is surrounded. by
a wreath.
In more recent times the reign OF
Pope Plus TX, for example, had been
predicted as "Crux de Croce," Pope
Plus himself actually suffering I'M
uesual affections and finally having
the temporal power Of the popes taken
from him by the new kingdom OF Italy.
For the reign which correspondent with
that of Pope Leo XIII had been pre-
dicted 'Iumen de coelo," which is as
serted was fulfilled by his unusually
enlightened and clever pontifcate
The present pope's prophecy was
'Tgnis ardenss fulfilled It is said In
the burning zeal for religion which
has characterized his entire pontif-
cate.
There now remains, as has tust
been developed, only eight more pro
phecies. They are "Religio depopu.
late" "Fides intrepida," Pastor an.
gelicus.' "L'astor ct nauta," 'F1os
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