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Malachy (/ ˈ m æ l ə k i /; Middle Irish: Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair; Modern Irish: Maelmhaedhoc Ó Morgair; Latin: Malachias) (1094 – 2 November 1148) is an Irish saint who was Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and an alleged vision of 112 popes later attributed to the apocryphal (i.e. of doubtful authenticity) Prophecy of the Popes.
Sep 17, 2013 · My grandmother, steeped in Irish-American Catholic culture, worried that the successor to Pius XII would choose the name Peter, signaling the end of the world. Throughout history someone is always predicting doomsday, but the hype about Malachy is, as they say, a bunch of malarkey. The real Malachy was an Irish saint who lived from 1094 to 1148.
- What Is “The Prophecy of The Popes?”
- Who Was St. Malachy?
- Why Are People Talking About The Prophecy Now?
- Is This An Approved Private Revelation?
- What Evidence Is There Concerning Its Authenticity?
- How Else Can The Reliability of The Prophecy Be Evaluated?
- Should Catholics Worry About The Prophecy of The Popes?
It is an alleged private revelation given to the medieval figure St. Malachy. The prophecy consists of a list of 112 short phrases — enigmatic mottoes in Latin that are supposed to represent the popes from St. Malachy’s time onward.
St. Malachy was the archbishop of Armagh, Ireland in the 1100s. Reportedly, he made a visit to Rome in which he had a vision of the future popes and wrote them down.
The next-to-last motto in the prophecy of the popes has been associated with Pope Benedict XVI. Since he is now at the end of his papacy, that would bring us to the last name in the prophecy of the popes, which many have taken to indicate the final pope at the end of the world. This passage reads as follows:
No, it is not. Although it has been influential in some Catholic circles for several hundred years, it is not approved by the Magisterium.
A significant mark against its authenticity is the fact that it was not published until 1595, though St. Malachy died in 1148. There is no record of the prophecy existing in the intervening 447 years. Allegedly, this was because the prophecy lay, forgotten, in a Roman archive, and it was not rediscovered until 1590. This explanation is possible in ...
If it is not possible to establish an external, historical record for the prophecy then the next logical approach is to examine its contents to see which theory of its origins they are more consistent with: Do the contents seem to suggest that it was written in the 1100s or do they suggest that it was written around 1590? Many observers have though...
No. It is not an approved apparition, and the evidence is consistent with it being a forgery composed around 1590. More fundamentally, Jesus indicated that we would not know the time of the end. In keeping with Our Lord’s warning, predictions of the end of the world based on the Bible have a dismaltrack record, and trying to predict the time of the...
Final part of the prophecies in Lignum Vitæ (1595), p. 311. The Prophecy of the Popes (Latin: Prophetia Sancti Malachiae Archiepiscopi, de Summis Pontificibus, "Prophecy of Saint-Archbishop Malachy, concerning the Supreme Pontiffs") is a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict the Catholic popes (along with a few antipopes), beginning with Celestine II.
St. Malachy (born 1094, Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland]—died November 2/3, 1148, Clairvaux, France; canonized 1190; feast day November 3) was a celebrated archbishop and papal legate who became a dominant figure of church reform in 12th-century Ireland. A fraudulent prophecy concerning the succession of popes was falsely ascribed to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 26, 2022 · The prophecies of the Irish Saint Malachy (1094-1148), the 12th-century bishop of Armagh, have thrilled and dismayed readers for centuries.
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May 24, 2024 · The Editors. Published May 24, 2024. A thousand or so years ago, there lived an Irish archbishop named Malachy. And this archbishop supposedly had a series of visions about popes—past, present and future. According to the revelations in these visions, recorded in a document that was supposedly discovered around 1590, there would be only 112 ...
