Once, while passing through Italy, bowed before a young Franciscan monk, addressing him as "His Holiness." Others around him did understand his strange behavior and the reasons as to why someone would call a mere monk by such a title. However, years later, and after ' death, that monk became Pope Sixtus V. This was just one of the hundreds of prophecies, or visions of the future, that the fifteenth-century prophet made during his lifetime. Nostradamus, born in the year of 1503 in France, spent his childhood under the gui ....