The Prophecy Of St Malachy

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The Prophecy of St. Malachy is a divine roll call of Popes served up with a side of early medieval mysticism. In 1139, St. Malachy saunters into Rome and suddenly has a vision. It's not just any vision, mind you, but a full-blown papal preview, complete with 112 cryptic Latin one-liners in an Armagh accent, each a teaser trailer for every pope to come until the end of days.

Now, whether St. Malachy was divinely inspired or just suffered from an overactive imagination is up for debate. Pope Francis, elected in 2013, is often associated with the final phrase, "Petrus Romanus". Sure, his name isn’t Peter, and he’s not Roman, but don’t let that get in the way of a good conspiracy. The prophecy wraps up with a bang, predicting the last pope, one Petrus Romanus—Peter the Roman. This Pope’s job description reads like a disaster movie script: shepherd the Church through “great tribulations,” watch Rome get reduced to rubble, and then stick around for the ultimate performance review when the “…