THE END OF THE WAR IN PROPHECY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1917, Page 3

THE END OF THE WAR IN PROPHECY.

A 12th CENTURY PREDICTION. The war will end on August 28 ol this year, and Germany will.be crushed by the Italians, according to a prophecy attributed to St Malachie, made in the twelfth century, recently unearthed by the Director of the Civil Museum at Como, and published in the "Petit Journal." Malachie, the accuracy of whose predictions regarding the line of Popes three centuries after his own era is celebrated, begins by specifying in somewhat mysterious language the exact date —August 28, 1916—0n which "new races, taking their name from Romulus"—which must mean the Rumanians—would enterthe war. "Then," the prophecy is said to continue, "the ferocious beast which for two years and one month had covered tho earth with blood, horror, and carnage, will bo enveloped on every side, and, striking out vainly the while, will seek whom it can devour, but will never find him. There will be great battles during thirteen moons. The fifth day after the sun comes out from the sign of the lion the beast will die a very bad death." Including the moon wjiich was new the day Rumania entered the war, tha thirteenth new moon would rise on August 17 next, and vanish again on September 10, and on August 23 the sun leaves the sign of the Lion to enter under the sign of Virgin. Five days later would be August 28, and on that day, Malachie says, the war must end. Concerning Italy, he says:—"A virgin whose name contains two iotas, two alphas, one ta'u, and one lambda (the Grenk letters meaning, respectively, I A T and L, and so spelling Italia) will crush the beast's head, and the Latin people will divide its remains."