It is difficult to find anyone who has not heard of the great prophet Nostradamus (1503 - 1566). But few people know that he has not been recognized during his life. His encrypted prophecy has remained unclear for many centuries, and only now, when the veil of mystery has finally fallen, does it reveal to us all the splendor of the genius of the French prophet.

Nostradamus was born on 14.12. 1503 in St. Remy-de-Provence in the family of a Jewish notary. The ancestors of Nostradamus converted to Christianity several generations earlier and settled in southern France. His parents were highly educated and were able to teach young Michel the principles of mathematics, Latin, Greek and the Hebrew language, as well as the basics of astrology, in which European Jews were especially proficient. With these solid foundations, the boy was sent to the university in Avignon, a famous humanities center. From 1522 to 1525 he continued his education at the University of Montpellier, one of the most famous centers in Europe. Here he diligently studied medical craft and in 1525 obtained a bachelor's degree and the right to practice medicine.

After his studies, Nostradamus' long struggle with the broom of Europe at the time - a plague that destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives each year. In 1530, Nostradamus was invited to the house of the philosopher Julius Caesar Scaliger in Agen and worked there as a healer.

He traveled to France and Italy, where he fought the "black death" and helped people.

He married in 1534 and has two children.

In 1537, Nostradamus' wife and children became infected with the plague epidemic and died. His wife's family then sues him for returning her dowry.

Around 1538, after being accused of heresy, Nostradamus left the region for an unintentional remark he made about a church statue so that he would not have to stand before the Inquisition court in Toulouse. He reportedly travels through Italy, Greece, Turkey, along the coasts of Syria and Jordan (which is reflected in his prophecies, which describe not only the future but also the past - such as the crusades to Jerusalem) to Egypt. According to his verses, he visited all the most famous places in Egypt and the island of Elephantine, where there was a temple in the past (before it was moved a little further before the Aswan Dam was built), with significant astrological signs on the ceiling that allowed Nostradamus to horoscopes and European conditions, which was not possible until then (not with such accuracy).

His full and long journey is documented in his major prophetic work, entitled "Vrailes Centuries."

Eight years have passed and Michel de Nostredame's journey in Europe and around the world is over. He eventually settled in the town of Salon in the south of France and remarried.

year 1546

Nostradamus cures the plague of victims in Aix-en-Provence and then goes to Salon-de-Provence to fight another outbreak of the plague.

year 1547

Nostradamus marries Anne Ponsarde, a wealthy widow and settles in Salon-de-Provence, they have six children together.

year 1550

Nostradamus publishes its first calendar, which contains a general forecast for each month of the year. The Almanac is a success and new versions appear every year until his death.

year 1552

Nostradamus ends the book on cosmetics and preserving fruit, which is very popular when it is published three years later.

year 1555

The first editions ("True Centuries" parts 1 to 4), Nostradamus' most ambitious prophecy project, are published under the title "Vrailes Centuries". Other works of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th "True Centuries" are published later that year.

year 1556

Nostradamus summoned to Paris to consult with Queen Catherine of Medici of France.

year 1558

Centuries 8, 9 and 10 are published to a limited extent. There are additional Centuries of the 11th and 12th, but they do not contain 100 verses, but much less.

It is possible that Nostradamus wanted to distribute this work on a larger scale only after his death.

Nostradamus created a book that spans a total of 12 centuries. The 1st to 10th editions are divided into 10 chapters (centuries), each of which consisted of 100 prophetic quatrains, the content of which focused on the distant past (up to 5000 years into the past) and 3 years into the future of all mankind.

year 1560

Nostradamus is appointed royal physician of the French monarchy.

year 1564

Kateřina Medicejská visits Nostradamus in Salon-de-Provence. He remains a loyal supporter of Nostradamus despite criticism from his opponents.

1.JEN 1566

Nostradamus is given the last anointing by a Catholic priest. The Prophet correctly assumes, according to his astrological calculations, that he will be dead the next day.

Nostradamus gradually deviated from medicine and devoted himself exclusively to astrology and the prediction of the future. It is not known when the great astrologer and physician visited the first vision, revealing the secrets of the ancient and near future, how many years he had great knowledge before he decided to write them. Maybe he wrote them down immediately after the end of his vision on prepared paper or practiced the so-called automatic drawing directly at the arrival of vision. Or he drew with a pen what he had just seen in his visions, as his line drawings (simple pictures), hidden in the Vatican Library, had been found by chance recently.

Clairvoyant visions came to him - as he states in his Preface to Son's son through a fiery quick message from God - the light - that came to him every night, and which he always expected to be seated and relaxed in a bronze tripod - a chair.

Just before Nostradam's death, light told him that he would not come, which Nostradamus specifically mentions in his last prophetic 71. verses 12. Century:

XXII. Century, verse 71. :

"The rivers, the streams of evil will be an obstacle, the Age, the Light said that it will no longer appear, spreading through France like Prophecy, households, noble settlements, palaces, shaded shadows (ie churches)."