Do his predictions name names and specify actual dates?
A. Yes and no. They certainly name Franco (IX.16) and apparently Napoleon (VIII.1) and De Gaulle (IX.33). Possibly they name Pasteur — though the reference (I.25) could simply be to an unidentified shepherd or bishop. ‘Chyren’ (referred to 6 times) almost certainly does not refer, as many French would like to believe, to President Jacques ChirAC, and it remains to be seen whether the famous ‘Mabus’ prediction at II.62 really refers by name to the former US ambassador to Riyadh, Raymond E Mabus or merely to the 16th century painter Jan Gossaert de Mabuse. Many others are certainly ‘named’, but only as ‘another Hercules’, ‘another Hannibal’ etc. (see 3. above). As for dates, a few of these are specified in clear language (X.72’s prediction for 1999 is probably the most famous), while a number (especially in the ‘Sixains’) seem to refer to a special ‘liturgical count’ (see VI.54) based on the establishment of Christianity as the mandatory Roman religion in November 392 and the consequent
A. Yes and no. They seem to name Franco (IX.16) and apparently Napoleon (VIII.1) and De Gaulle (IX.33). Possibly they name Pasteur -though the reference (I.25) could simply be to an unidentified shepherd or bishop. ‘Chyren’ (referred to 6 times) almost certainly does not refer, as many French observers would like to believe, to President Jacques ChirAC, and it remains to be seen whether the famous ‘Mabus’ prediction at II.62 really refers by name to the former US ambassador to Riyadh, Raymond E Mabus or merely to the 16th century painter Jan Gossaert de Mabuse. Many others are certainly ‘named’, but only as ‘another Hercules’, ‘another Hannibal’ etc. (see 3. above). As for dates, a few of these are specified in clear language (X.72’s prediction for 1999 is probably the most famous), while a number (especially in the ‘Sixains’) seem to refer to a special ‘liturgical count’ (see VI.54) based on the establishment of Christianity as the mandatory Roman religion in November 392 and the cons
