Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-07-06
PROPHESY TELLS WHEN
PRESENT WAR WILL END
Prophet in Middle Ages Set Latter
Part of August This Year as
the Time

Astronomy is the basis of a pro-
phecy from the fifteenth or sixteenth
century setting a date for the end
of the present war. The words of the
prophet are printed in the April
number of Popular Astronomy, pub
lished by Goodsell observatory, Garlic
ton college, DR.. H. c. Wilson and
Prof. G. H. Gingrich editors. The
translation from the French is made
by Prof ]. P. Bird, Carleton college.
A subscriber to a French magazine
had contributed the article, says the
Mortified News:
In reading the Corriere della
Sera l notice a prophecy relative
to the duration of the present war
and which has to do with the beauti-
full science of astronomy. 1t is the
Chevalier Month, director of the
Civic Museum at Como, who possesses
the text of it, or at least the copy
from manuscript Of the XVII cen
fury. The Revue du Touring Club
of Italy has furnished, it seems, a
Photographic fac-simile of this curl
Gus bit, whose author is no other
than he to whom is attributed the
famous prediction called that of
Saint Malachi, who under the form
of symbolic devices and emblems
has characterized the reign of diff
erent pOpes.
ALTHOUGH it is demonstrated to-
day that the prophet in question
lived in the fifteenth or sixteenth
century, whereas Saint Malachi died
in the middle of the twelfth, the
two predictions are none the less in
teresting. Here is the translation of
the passage relative to the present
war:
d" When the first number shall
meet the ninth and when they two
shall united with the first and the
sixth (1916), during the sixth
month of the year august according
to the old calendar) and after two
times four and two times ten days
shall have passed august 18), the
new races which draw their name
from Romulus (ROumania) shall
rise and shall ally themselves with
powerful nations. Then the fierce
beast who for two years and one
month (eXact date of the beginning
of the war; has been filling all the
earth with blood, with horror and
with carnage, now surrounded, smit-
ten from all sides and roaring in
vain, will seek whom he may devour
but shall not find him. There shall
be new battles while new moons
shall wax and wane thirteen times
The fifth day after the sun leaves the
sign of the Lion, the beast shall die
of a fearful death. A virgin whose
name contains two iotas, two aIphas,
a tau and a lambda (Italia) shall
crush his head and the latin peoples
shall share his spoiIs.
"A good half of the prediction,
remarks the Corriere della Sera is
already accomplished; we shall see
if the remainder will conform to the
beginning.
Let us leave to the astronomers
the task of clearing up the compu-
tatiOn of the moons 1t seems at
first sight that the problem does not
exceed my astronomical knowledge;
it is for that reason that I take the
liberty of sending you the reflections
which this prophecy has inspired in
me.
The twenty-eighth of August,
1916, was new moon, and the thir-
teenth thereafter falls on August II,
1917. So when thirteen new moons
have set, we shall be at the seven
teenth of August of this year. The
war would then end in the moon
which extends from the seventeenth
of August to the sixteenth of Septem-
Der, 1917. At what date? That
point the second part of the prophecy
determines.
'The sun this year leaves the sign
of the Lion on August 23rd; the fifth
day thereafter brings us to the 28th
of the same month. That is, &C
cOrding to the author, the day which
is to make the end of the war and it