When was it published?

June 26, 1761 in The New Hampshire Gazette

Foreign News June 26, 1761

The New Hampshire Gazette

Q: What sub-type of article is it?

Mysterious Prophets, Doomsday Prophecy

Q: What keywords are associated?

Cologne Prophets, 700 Years Old, Doomsday 1773, Ancient Languages, Banished Rome

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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What is this article about?

From Cologne, reports of two people claiming to be 700 years old, arriving from Damascus via Cracovia. Barefoot and poorly clothed, they subsist on bread and water, prophesy wars, floods, fires, and the world's end in 1773. Speaking Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldean, they were imprisoned, rumored to have broken chains, then banished and heading to Rome.

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They write from Cologn, that people were lately come to that city, who give out that they are 700 years old: they say they came from Damascus, from whence they passed through Cracovia, and from thence hither; they are bare-foot, badly cloathed, and live only on bread and water; they foretel nothing but ill news, wars, inundations, and conflagations and that the world will have an end in 1773: they talk Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Chaldean; they were at first imprisoned, and the common people reported they had broke their chains. They have been banished this city and its territories, and are now shaping their way towards Rome.

What sub-type of article is it?

Mysterious Prophets Doomsday Prophecy

What keywords are associated?

Cologne Prophets 700 Years Old Doomsday 1773 Ancient Languages Banished Rome

Where did it happen?

Cologn

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

Cologn

Event Date

Lately

Outcome

imprisoned and banished from the city and its territories

Event Details

People claiming to be 700 years old arrived in Cologn from Damascus via Cracovia; barefoot, badly clothed, living on bread and water; foretell wars, inundations, conflagations, and world end in 1773; speak Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean; imprisoned, rumored to have broken chains; now banished and heading to Rome.