A
French physician and astrologer who wrote a famous collection of prophecies
published in 1555. ‘The Centuries’. This was the title of his collection of
prophecies. The prophecies in Centuries appear in four-line rhyming verses
called quatrains. They describe events from the mid 1500s through the end of the
world, which is predicted to come in AD3797.
Nostradamus was born in Saint Remi, southern France. He was raised as a
Roman Catholic. He studied medicine in Montpellier, he started practice about
1525 and then he began to treat victims of the plague, earning him a reputation
as a gifted healer.
1550, he moved to Salon, where he began to write
his prophecies. Catherine de Medicis, the queen of France asked him to plot the
horoscopes of her husband, King Henry 11 and their children. In 1560 King
Charles 1X of France appointed him court physician.
