{"id":4922,"date":"2013-03-14T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2013-03-14T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T03:05:13","slug":"pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/03\/pope-francis-4922.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman&#8230;But"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:FrancesRome.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"St. Frances of Rome\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FrancesRome.jpg\" alt=\"St. Frances of Rome\" width=\"213\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Frances of Rome (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn&#8217;t his middle name, and he hasn&#8217;t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn&#8217;t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stumbled on the home turn?<\/p>\n<p>Well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis was an Italian saint, and is joint Patron Saint of Italy<\/li>\n<li>The parents of Pope Francis were Italian immigrants (they were from Turin)<\/li>\n<li>There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frances_of_Rome\">St. Frances of Rome<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bergoglio was supposedly first choice when they picked the previous Pope, but he asked them to elect Benedict\/Ratzinger instead &#8211; because he needed to be the final Pope?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the forums there is discussion of the new Pope&#8217;s surname, Bergoglio:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.italyworldclub.com\/genealogy\/surnames\/b.htm\">BERGO, BERGONZI<\/a> : Originally from the Germanic word &#8220;berg&#8221;(monte) meaning mountain&#8221;<br \/>\nPetrus means rock<br \/>\nMountains are made out of rock<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And someone made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godlikeproductions.com\/forum1\/message2166674\/pg3\">deeper connection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Checked on the Oglio river, and it&#8217;s a river on the North of Italy. The name of the river comes from the Latin Olius, which means &#8220;olives&#8221;. On the other hand, Berg means mountain in German, and the North of Italy is right next to Germany. There&#8217;s probably some place in Italy called &#8220;Bergoglio&#8221;, which must mean &#8220;the mount next to river Oglio&#8221;, or &#8220;mount-olives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is where it gets interesting. Because two famous things happen in the Bible on the Mount of Olives: First, it&#8217;s when Jesus talked about his second coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrus_Romanus#Petrus_Romanus\">Wikipedia<\/a> with the suggestion that the next Pope might be Petrus Romanus:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><em>Petrus Romanus<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>In recent times, some interpreters of prophetic literature have drawn attention to the prophecies due to their imminent conclusion; if the list of descriptions is matched on a one-to-one basis to the list of historic popes since the prophecies&#8217; publication, Benedict XVI (2005-2013) would correspond to the second to last of the papal descriptions, <em>Gloria olivae<\/em> (the glory of the olive). The longest and final prophecy predicts the Apocalypse:<\/p>\n<p><em>In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit.<br \/>\n<\/em> <em>Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus, quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, &amp; judex tremendus judicabit populum suum. Finis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This may be translated into English as:<\/p>\n<p><em>In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit<\/em> [i.e., as bishop].<br \/>\n<em>Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills<\/em> [i.e. Rome] <em>will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several historians and interpreters of the prophecies note that they leave open the possibility of unlisted popes between &#8220;the glory of the olive&#8221; and the final pope, &#8220;Peter the Roman.&#8221;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In the <em>Lignum Vitae<\/em>, the line <em>In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit.<\/em> forms a separate sentence and paragraph of its own.<\/span> <\/strong>While often read as part of the &#8220;Peter the Roman&#8221; prophecy, other interpreters view it as a separate, incomplete sentence explicitly referring to additional popes between &#8220;the glory of the olive&#8221; and &#8220;Peter the Roman&#8221;<sup>.<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=a8fba37c-de99-4df9-b886-3631458e5739\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn&#8217;t his middle name, and he hasn&#8217;t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn&#8217;t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stumbled on the home turn?<br \/>\nWell:<\/p>\n<p>Francis was an Italian saint, and is joint Patron Saint of Italy<br \/>\nThe parents of Pope Francis were Italian immigrants (they were from Turin)<br \/>\nThere was a St. Frances of Rome<br \/>\nBergoglio was supposedly first choice when they picked the previous Pope, but he asked them to elect Benedict\/Ratzinger instead &#8211; because he needed to be the final Pope?<\/p>\n<p>In the forums there is discussion of the new Pope&#8217;s surname, Bergoglio:<br \/>\n&#8220;BERGO, BERGONZI : Originally from the Germanic word &#8220;berg&#8221;(monte) meaning mountain&#8221;<br \/>\nPetrus means rock<br \/>\nMountains are made out of rock<br \/>\nAnd someone made a deeper connection:<br \/>\nChecked on the Oglio river, and it&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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