Nostradamous

             Micheal De Nostradamus was a 16th century physician. He was very educated and talented for his time. He also had another gift that allowed him to see through time. Nostradamus made statements about the rise of Hitler to the end of the world. Although it was considered witch craft and could be put to death for predicting the future this did not stop him from making accurate predictions of the future.
             Micheal De Nostradamus was born in France in 1503. He was raised Catholic ,but learned the Jewish bible from his grandfather. At the age of seven Nostradamus has his first prediction. His family was leaving church when he noticed a friar getting water from a well. He walked over to the friar and kissed the robe he wore. His mother asked him why he did this and he said it is right to praise a pope. Many years after Nostradamus's death the friar became Pope Sixtous V.
             Nostradamus practiced medicine in France at the University. While he was a student the Black Plague broke out. He left the University to go cure the sick. He was a well known physician through France for his cure for the Black Plague. Scholars however do not know the medicines he used because he did not keep accurate records. At the height of the plague His wife, son, and daughter died from the plague the disease he could cure. This devastated him and the next ten years he spent wondering around Europe. This scholars say is when he concentrated on his other gift predicting the future.
             Nostradamus looked at his prophesying as a gift from god and that his visions needed to be wrote down. He wrote his visions in four line rhyming verses in Latin, Greek, French and with anagrams. He vision he had was called a quatrain for every one hundred quatrains he called it a century he wrote ten centuries. His first century was published in 1566. He received his visions in his library at night they came to him in voices from a fire burni
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