Nostradamus Dies: Centuries of Prophecy Debate Begin
He told his priest the night before he died: 'You will not find me alive at sunrise.' Nostradamus died in Salon-de-Provence in July 1566, which his followers noted he had predicted. He'd spent the last decade of his life writing quatrains that were vague enough to be applied to almost anything that might happen in the future, specific enough to feel confirmed after the fact. Catherine de Medici kept him close. His almanacs sold across France. His 942 quatrains are still in print, still being reinterpreted, still matching whatever just happened.
July 2, 1566
460 years ago
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