A GREAT ASTROLOGER.

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 23

A GREAT ASTROLOGER.

' The most powerful astrologer of the middle ages was a physician of Jewish descent. Consulted by Henry 11. of France, whose death he was said to have predicted, Charles IX., Catherine de Medici, and all the sovereigns of. Europe, riches poured in on him, but he retired witlx candle, pen, and ink to a vault, where it meant death to disturb him.

His line, “London’s Senate sends her Prince to die,” in the forty-ninth verse of his seventeenth century prophecies, was strangely fulfilled by Charles I.’s execution in 1649, and Prince Charlie and Napoleon were among those who scanned his books in search of favourable omens. He prophesies a revolution for England in the middle of the twentieth century. He was Nostrodamus who died in 1566. His son was unlucky in his attempts to carry on the paternal business. His predictions would not come right, and when he tried to fulfil one concerning the burning of a- French town by setting light to it-himself the mob trampled him to death.

Jean Stinson, Campfield, Kumeroa, Woodville, asks for a pen-friend of about twelve years of age. Ella Ta plin, of Carrington, Carterton, would like a twelve or thirteen-year-old League' member to-Write to her.