Nostradamus Biography

Nostradamus, a French physician and astrologer who became one of the most famous

seers of all times was born as Michel de Nostredame in 1503 in the south French town of Saint Remy de Provence. His family was of Jewish origin but converted to Catholicism shortly before his birth due to an anti-Semitic climate in France at the time. Little is known about his early childhood except that he supposedly learned Jewish mystical teachings including Kabbalah from his grandfathers who also taught him classical languages. In 1517, the young Nostradamus went to Avignon to study medicine but he spent only a short time there as the university was closed due to an outbreak of the plague. He continued education at the University of Montpellier and graduated from medicine and astrology in 1525 although some records state that he was expelled from the university for practicing apothecary.

After he graduated from the University of Montpellier, he changed his name into the Latinized version Nostradamus as it was customary for academics in his time. He quickly became famous for his alternative but effective plague treatment that promoted hygiene, fresh air and low-fat diet as well as the so-called rose pill, a remedy made of rosehips that was later shown to be high in vitamin C content. In 1531, he settled in Agen and married to a woman whose identity is uncertain. She bore him two children, however, both his wife and the children are believed to had died from the plague in 1534 which has severely diminished his reputation. In 1538, faced with the charges for heresy he left France. He returned in 1544 and once again focused on helping the plague victims. He quickly restored his reputation as an outstanding doctor, settled in Salon-de-Provence, remarried and started a new family. But at the same time, he began abandoning medicine and devoting more time to occultism. He allegedly spent hours meditating over a brass filled with water and probably some herbs to achieve a state of trance and visions of the future.

By 1550, Nostradamus started publishing his visions of events for the coming year in the Almanacs which were received very well and stimulated the seer to start working on the Centuries as he titled his 10 volume opus of prophecies for the next 2,000 years. He published the first seven volumes in 1555 and quickly became a star throughout France despite the fact that the prophesies were written in rhymed four-line verses which were mostly left to interpretation. It is speculated that he wrote his prophecies the way he did to avoid potential religious persecution. However, his predictions for the future attracted the attention of Catherine de Medici, the wife of the French King Henry II who invited him to the royal court in Paris to tell her more about his visions, especially in regard to the royal family.

It is the prophecy related to the French royal family that made Nostradamus one of the most famous seers of all times. In the Quatrain 35, Volume I, he wrote that The young lion will overcome the older one/ On the field of combat in single battle/ He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage/ Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death. Nostradamus is said to warn the French king from any kind of jousting during his 41st year, however, the King ignored the warning and was indeed injured in a jousting tournament. The lance that hit the King through his visor shattered into two pieces, one destroying the Kings eye and the other penetrating deep into his brain. He suffered in agonizing pain for ten days before he died from septicemia in his 41st year.

Nostradamus spent his final years in Salon-de-Provence with his family. He was visited by Catherine de Medici in 1564 when she was once again told the fate of her seven children all of which ended tragically as he predicted. The seer died himself in 1566 from congestive heart failure. On the evening before his death, he allegedly said to his secretary that he would not find him alive at sunrise and the next morning he was found dead on the floor next to his bed.

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