
A French physician and astrologer who wrote a famous collection of prophecies published in 1555. ‘The Centuries’. This was the title of his collection of prophecies. The prophecies in Centuries appear in four-line rhyming verses called quatrains. They describe events from the mid 1500s through the end of the world, which is predicted to come in AD3797. Nostradamus was born in Saint Remi, southern France. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. He studied medicine in Montpellier, he started practice about 1525 and then he began to treat victims of the plague, earning him a reputation as a gifted healer.
1550, he moved to Salon, where he began to write his prophecies. Catherine de Medicis, the queen of France asked him to plot the horoscopes of her husband, King Henry 11 and their children. In 1560 King Charles 1X of France appointed him court physician.
