The sainted Albert the Great, the most noted thinker of the Church in the Middle Ages, received and taught the same doctrine.
The teachings of these Church Fathers as to Comets have been commended in our own day by Pope Pius IX.
The great teachers of other religions, likewise, have laid down identical beliefs as to the meaning of Comets.
The sacred books of India are full of awed references to the baleful influence of Comets.
The ancient year books of China, written centuries before white men kept any records, tell of the appearance of Comets and of the disasters they foretold.
The Mohametans and their wise Arab star gazers, when they saw a Comet in the Heavens, knew that it meant war.
The woe of one Comet (Halley’s Comet of 1456), which had the shape of a Turkish scimitar, so the Arab soothsayers foretold, would be turned against their enemies. This was the same Comet which brought such fear to the hearts of Pope Calixtus III. and all his Christian followers.
Thus it can be seen that Comets have been held to foretell disaster on one side, and victory on the other.
The Comets which conquerors hailed as their guiding stars, have meant war and bloodshed and disaster to those whom they came to conquer.
The same Comets which shone upon the birth of mighty rulers, have blazed in warning of their death.