Putin and the Papacy

V 92

Apres le siege tenu dix sept ans,
Cinq changeront en tel reuolu terme :
Puis sera l'vn esleu de mesme temps,
Qui des Romains ne sera trop conforme.


After the see has been held seventeen years,
Five will change in the great revolution's end
Then one will be elected at the same time,
One who will not be too comfortable to the Romans.


Pius XI was pope from February 6, 1922 to February 10, 1939.  The second line refers to a rare conjunction of five planets with the Sun in May 2000:  Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.  This occurred during the fourth in a series of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions beginning in 1940.  On May 7, 2000, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as president of Russia. This is the only quatrain where Nostradamus does not use the ABAB rhyme scheme.  The old French word tans has the same meaning as temps.  This quatrain implicates Vladimir Putin in the downfall of the papacy.