The Prophecy of the Popes is a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict popes of the Catholic Church, beginning with Celestine II. It was first published in 1595 by Bened
Final part of the prophecies in Lignum Vitæ (1595), p. 311
Statue of Saint Malachy (1094–1148), to whom Wion attributes the authorship of the prophecies. Malachy died over four centuries before the prophecies first appeared.
A series of manuscript prophecies concerning the Papacy, under the title of Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, a Latin text which assembles portraits of popes and prophecies related to them, circulated
Prophecy of the Popes
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15th-century watercolor illustration in Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus
Title page of Vaticinia, sive Prophetiae / Vaticinii, overo Profetie (Prophecies or Foretellings). Venice: Hieronymum Porrum and Giovanni Battista Bertoni, 1589.