The Irish standard., 1917-08-04
PROPHECY ON GREAT
war is FOUND
According to Prediction, End Of Ter
rible Conflict Is Near at Hand
Remarkable Document Is Said
to Be Forecast of st. Malachy.


to Be Forecast of st. Malachy.
Don Sante Monti, learned priest
of Como, Italy, who is president of
the Como Historical society and d.
rector of the Civic museum, has q
seventeenth century book containing a
collection of letters, verses in Latin
and Italian by uncertain authors, and
other documents. The book evidently
belonged originally to the writer,
Paola Giovio.
Among other things it contains a
curious prophecy about the present
war, attributed to St. Malachy, arch
bishop of Armagh, Ireland, who died
in 114S.
is written in Latin in the same hand
writing as other documents, and in
all probability it was copied from some
earlier manuscript in the seventeenth
century. 1t is dated 1869, more than
three centuries after St. Malachys
death. There is no doubt, however,
that the prophecy was written down
800 years ago, and its interest is, there
fore, undiminished despite the fact
that it may have been wrongly at
tributed to st. Malachy.
Translation Of Prophecy.
The following is a careful English
translation of the prophecy from the
Latin original:
Great wars will happen and many
will perish. Prophecy Of the Blessed
Malachy, 1869.
when the first number will find
the ninth and both will join the first
and the sixth numbers 1916), in the
sixth month august, according to the
old calendar), wher twice four and
! twice ten days are passed (the 2Sth),
then the head of the terrible beast
which for two years and a month has
already filed the world with blood and
slaughter, devastation and death, shall
be crushed. From the Book Of Proph-
ecies of the Blessed Malachy in the
year 1869.
when the first number finds the
ninth and both are joined with the
first and sixth numbers, in the sixth
month, when twice four and twice ten
days have passed the new people
called from ROmulus (the Rouman-
ions) will rise and conclude an alli-
ance with the powerful people.
Then that ferocious beast that
since two years and month had filled
all the world with blood and slaugh-
ter, with devastation and death, sur
rounded on all sides and wounded,
vainly roaring, will seek whom to de-
YOUR and find none. There will be
great devastations during all the time,
when new moons will rise and set
three and ten times; there on the fifth
day, when the sun comes out of the
sign of the Lion, he will die of the
worst death, and q Virgin whose name
is composed of two iotas W, two al
phas (a), with tau IT,, and lamb
do O, will crush his head, and his
spoils will be divided among the Latin
people.
"a single instant more than the al
lotted time will not pass before the
events above written come to happen"
incorporation Oy newspaper.
The Roscommon Oreland) Herald,
which publishes the foregoing trans
laton, proceeds to interpret it as fol-
lows:
'"The prediction of Rumania's inter-
vention of August 28, 1916, has come
true, as this date corresponds to Ger
many's declaration of war against Ru-
mania, and the period during which
the war has been in progress, namely,
two years and one month, is also sub
stantially accurate, since from the out
break of the war in the beginning of
August, 1914, to the end of August,
1916, the date of Rumania's interven-
ton, two years and month passed.
"The virgin referred to in the Droph-
ecy is evidently meant to typify Italy,
since the Greek letters composing her
name correspond to two is, two as,
t and an l, which form the name Italia.
Evidently, according to the prophecy,
Italy is destined to play decisive role
} in the war and bring about it's end.
} "The end of the war is clearly pre-
dicted, and as there was a new moon
on August %, 1916, counting thirteen
lunar months from then and taking in.
to account the fact that the sun
: crosses the sign of the lion in summer,
1t is comparatively easy to calculate
approximately that, according to the
prophecy, the war will end toward the
, middle of next September, until when
, great devastations over all the world
. will happen"
Writer Is a Convert.