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

LIII.

French.

Dedans Boulogne voudra laver ses fautes,

Il ne poura au Temple du Soleil,

Il volera faisant choses si hautes,

En Hierarchie n’en fut onc un pareil.

English.

He shall desire to wash his faultes in Bulloin,

In the Church of the Sun, but he shall not be able,

He shall fly doing so high things,

That the like was never in Hierarchy.

ANNOT.

There is two Towns called Bolloin, one is in Italy, the other in France, the last is that which is meant here; for Cardinal Richelieu who is the man that did so high things, and the like of which was never in Hierarchy (that is in the Clergy) a little afore his death had vowed if he recovered his health to go in Pilgrimage to Bulloin, where there is a famous Temple for Miracles, (as they say) dedicated to our Lady, which is called here the Sun, by an allusion to that passage of the Revelation: And there appeared a Woman cloathed with the Sun; but the said Cardinal was prevented by death.