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According to the prophecy of the popes, St. Malachy, Benedict XVI is the last pope Catholic and therefore the Pope elected in the conclave would be the last on the papal throne.
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The Prophecies of St. Malachy are two texts that were published in 1595 and 1690 and for centuries were attributed to St. Malachy Catholic Archbishop of Armagh (1094-1148). One refers to the Papacy Catholic and Ireland.
Both were released written centuries later, when many of the predicted events had happened, so they have established serious doubts about its authenticity.
According to religious Bernard of Clairvaux, who was an intimate friend of Malachi, Malachi enjoyed the gift of prophecy, but not mentioned at all no prophecy about Ireland, let alone a list of future popes (including the year in would happen to the world). In his Life of St. Malachy, Bernard did not mention these two prophecies.
This lack of mention, and the fact that all predicted events had already happened when it was discovered the text, reinforcing the hypothesis that it is a later forgery.
The 'Prophecy of the Popes', St. Malachi appeared in the 'Lignum Vitae, Ornamentum, & Decus Ecclesiae' ('The Tree of Life, ornament and glory of the church'), in 1595, published by the monk Arnoldo Belgian Benedictine Wion (who was historian of his order).
Wion dedicated the book to the king of Spain, Philip II, son of Charles V of Germany and I of Spain.
The French Jesuit Claude François Menestrier (1631-1705) wrote a work to prove that this prophecy was written in the late seventeenth century.
For the first time the text of the prophecy was published in 1595 by Arnold de Wyon who in his book 'The Tree of Life' authorship attributed to Malachi, whose authenticity, however, is disputed by many authors. In early 1139 Malachi came to Rome to visit Pope Innocent II and supposedly from this visit began writing his prophecies.
The 'Lignum Vitae' is a collective biography of the Benedictines raised to the episcopal dignity. After a few paragraphs on the figure of St. Malachy, concludes: "[Malachi] wrote several pamphlets. Until today I have not had a chance to see any, except a prophecy concerning the sovereign pontiffs. Since it is very brief, and I know it has been given to print yet, and given that many would be happy to know, then copy its contents ".
The book was a bestseller in Christian Europe.
It shows a series of 112 small Latin slogans or phrases alluding unnumbered allegorical to the following 112 popes rule the Catholic Church, from Celestine II (1143-1144) to a course Peter the Roman, including the anti-popes. It is observed that the currencies corresponding to the potatoes before 1595 are much less ambiguous than successive.
The Spanish historian José Luis Calvo confirmed until Pope Urban VII (1521-1590), slogans match very well with the respective popes thereafter and efforts should be made to match.
Chances are that the prophecy has been made by someone who used the prestige of the Dominican scholar and archaeologist Alfonso Chacón (Alphonsus Ciacconus), who said the slogans in the text of 1595 to Urban VII.
The Spanish scholar Benito Jerónimo Feijoo wrote in his Universal Critical Theatre is apocryphal prophecy that was given to Alfonso Chacon and only has accuracy up Urban VII, which shows fraud.
For the Jesuit Claude-François Menestrier these prophecies were made to promote the candidacy of Girolamo Simoncelli pope, cardinal of Orvieto in 1590 to succeed Urban VII.
The end
After the death of John Paul II, there was no means of communication between their reports not to broadcast any text or image linked to Prophecies of St. Malachy calls.
