The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. / A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

IX.

French.

Aux Temples Saints seront faits grands scandales,

Comptez seront peur honneurs & louanges,

D’un que l’on grave d’Argent, d’Or les Medals,

La fin sera en tourmens bien estranges.

English.

To the holy Temples shall be done great scandals,

That shall be accounted for honours and praises,

By one, whose medals are graven in Gold and Silver,

The end of it shall be in very strange torments.

ANNOT.

Here the Reader must understand that the Author was a Roman Catholick, and therefore calleth Holy Temples, the Churches of the Romish Religion, which in the beginning of the Civil Wars in France, were much abased by those of the Protestant Religion, then called Huguenots, whose chief was Henry King of Navarre, who was the only man amongst the Protestant party, that could have Money and Medals coined to his stamp, as being King of Navarre. But the last Verse of this Prophecie proved too true, when upon St. Bartholomews day, the 24 of August, in the year 1572. the general Massacre of the Protestants was made through France.