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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Remarkable 512 AD prediction by Bishop of Arles, extracted from Paris Royal Library's Liber Mirabilis by Sir John Lawson around 1767 and published in Gentleman's Magazine July 1807, seen as fulfilled by French Revolution events including blinding of administration, noble dispossession, church division, carnage in Paris, and a humbled king's recovery.
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From the Gentleman's Magazine, of July, 1807.
The following remarkable prediction of the Bishop of Arles, in the year 512, which the events of the French Revolution have so amply fulfilled, were recorded in the Royal Library of Paris, in a book entitled Liber Mirabilis, from which it was extracted, about 40 years since, by Sir John Lawson, Bart. of Broughhall, in Yorkshire.
"The administration of the kingdom (France) shall be so blinded, that they shall leave it without defenders.
"The hand of GOD shall extend itself over them, and over all the rich.
"All the Nobles shall be deprived of their estates.
"Division shall spring up in the church of God; and there shall be two husbands, the one true, the other adulterous; the legitimate husband shall be put to flight.
"There shall be great carnage, and as great an effusion of blood as in the days of the Gentiles. The universal Church and all the world shall deplore the ruin and destruction of a most celebrated city, the capital and metropolis of France; the altar of the temple shall be destroyed, the holy Virgins outraged shall fly from the Monasteries. The Church Pastors shall be driven from their seats, and the Church shall be stripped of her temporal goods.
"But at length the Black Eagle and Lion shall appear coming from far countries. Wo be to the city of opulence! thou shalt at first rejoice, but thy end shall come.
"Wo be to thee, O city of philosophy: thou shalt be subjugated.
"A captive king, humbled even to confusion, shall recover his crown."
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France
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512 (Prediction); French Revolution (Fulfillment)
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nobles deprived of estates; great carnage and effusion of blood; destruction of paris church and monasteries; captive king recovers crown
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Prediction from 512 AD recorded in Liber Mirabilis in Royal Library of Paris, extracted about 40 years before 1807, foretelling blinding of French administration, divine hand over rich, noble dispossession, church division with true husband fled, carnage in Paris with church destruction and pastors driven out, appearance of Black Eagle and Lion, subjugation of opulent and philosophical city, and recovery of humbled captive king; fulfilled by French Revolution events.