Century III, Quatrain 34
Then when the eclipse of the sun will be in broad daylight
the monster will be seen.
It will be interpreted quite differently;
they will not care about expense,
none will have provided for it.
This is talking about the solar eclipse which will take place in August. What is interesting is that there will not be enough money to finance the war against the antichrist.
Century III, Quatrain 36
Burned, apoplectic but not dead,
he wil be found to have his hands gnawed;
when the city will condemn the heretic who,
it seemed to them, had changed their laws.
Century III, Quatrain 44
When the animal tamed by man begins to speak
after great efforts and difficulty,
the lightning so harmful to the rod
will be taken from the earth
and suspended in the air.
Century III, Quatrain 60
Throughout Asia there will be great proscription,
also in Mystia, Lycia and Pamphilia.
Blood will flow because of the absolution of a young dark man,
filled with evil doing.
Is this talking about Bin Laden or the Secretary General of the UN?
Century III, Quatrain 61
The great following of the sect of the cross
will arise in Mesopotamia.
Light company of the nearby river
who will regard such a law a inimical.
This is definitely related to the War. It is by all nature a war between the Christian Serbs and the Muslim Albanians. Mesopotamia is modern day Iraq.
Century III, Quatrain 64
The Persian leader will fill up great Spain.
A fleet of triremes against the Mohammedans
from Parthia and Media,
he will pillage the Cyclades:
then a long wait in the great Ionian harbour.
Parthia and Medes are the Persians or Iran. This holy Jihad will engulf all of Europe before it is over. The Cyclades are the Greek islands around Delos in the Aegean which lies between Greece and Sicily.
Century III, Quatrain 65
When the tomb of the great Roman is found
a pope will be elected the next day;
he will not be approved of by the Senate,
his blood poisonous in the sacred chalice.
Is this the Glory of the Olive Branch who will take Pope John Paul's place?
Century III, Quatrain 67
A new set of philosophers despising death,
gold, honours and riches will not be limited
by the mountains of Germany,
in their following will be crowds and support.
Century III, Quatrain 76
Various sects will arise in Germany
which will come near to a happy paganism.
The heart captive, the returns small,
they will return to pay the true tithe.
Century III, Quatrain 77
The third climate included under Aries,
in the year 1727 in October the King of Persia,
captured by those of Egypt;
battle, death, loss; great shame to the cross.
Century III, Quatrain 82
Frejus, Antibes, the towns around Nice
will be greatly devastated by land and sea;
the locusts, by land and sea,
the wind being favorable, captured, dead,
trussed up, plundered without law of war.
Century III, Quatrain 86
A leader from Italy will go to Spain by sea
and he will make a stop at Marseilles.
He will linger a long time before dying,
after his death great wonders will be seen.
Century III, Quatrain 92
The world is near its final period,
Saturn will again be late on his return.
The empire will shift towards the Brodde nation;
An eye at Narbonne plucked out by a goshawk.
Century III, Quatrain 94
For five hundred years more they will take notice of him
who was the ornament of his age.
Then suddenly a great revelation will be made
which will make people of that (same) century well pleased.
Century III, Quatrain 95
The Mooorish law will be seen to fail,
followed by another that is more pleasing.
The Dnieper will be the first to give way
through gifts and tongues to another more appealing.
Nostradamus predicts not only the rise of Communism, but also its failure.
Century III, Quatrain 97
A new law will occupy a new land
around Syria, Judea and Palestine.
The great barbarian Empire will crumble
before the century of the sun is finished.
This is the most vivid of the prophecies. According to Nostradamus, Israel would be established in the twentieth century and the barbarian empire would be defeated before the end of this century.