The Predictions of Nostradamus

Michael De Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, was born to a well-educated Jewish family in St Remy, France. The family worked in the grain trade and became owners of many poperties and had two children, Michael who was the eldest and Bernard, who passed into oblivion. The family converted to Catholocism and this introduced Nostradamus to the prophecies of the Bible. He also was introduced to the wisdom of Kabbalah and it was this combination of religions in his early years that attributed to his later predictions and publications.

In 1550 his famous Centuries Nostradamus was a weather almanac containing weather predictions. This was followed by his first edition of his quatrains in 1672. Michael De Nostredame was educated at home in Hebrew, Greek, Latin , Astronomy and other Sciences. When he reached the age of 19 he was sent to study medicine at the University of Montpellier. Physicians of that time did not make a clear distinction between alchemy and pharmacy and in Avignon he read works on magic and the occult. For his doctorate in Montpellier in the year 1529, Nostradamus defended his belief in various unorthodox remedies which he had used.

He became a doctor of medicine and work as a professor which lead him to Agen, where he met the famous scholar Jules-Cesar Scaliger. Whilst in Agen he married, had a son and daughter where he had a happy life before he lost his entire family three years later to an outbreak pestilence in 1538. He entire world crumbled as his family were gone and his patients abandoned him. Little is known of Nostradamus in the following years except he did visit Sicily and it was recorded that he returned to France in 1544 when he published Le Livre d'Orus Apollo.