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NOSTRADAMUS 201218Toulouse.He soon moved to Agen, married into a wealthy family and sired a boy and girl.However, in 1538 tragedy struck with such brutal intensity that the young doctor’sspiritual and mental serenity was forever changed. In that year, the plague returnedto Agen carrying off his young family. Fell stars it seems had him summoned toToulouse to face the Inquisition for making chance remarks about an inept bronzecaster’s statue of the Virgin Mary that he joked looked more like the bronze cast ofa demon. Nostradamus packed up his mule with a few belongings and stole awayfrom Agen into the night, never setting foot in Toulouse with its waiting Justices ofthe Church. He disappeared for ten years, a non-entity for rack or burning stake.Fragments of data like the withered parchment and script of surviving bits ofthe dead sea scrolls parse out a possible tale of a grieving doctor wandering throughSouthern Europe and Italy in a self-imposed exile of occult as well as botanical andculinary discovery.Sharp shock of tragedy struck the match it is believed of prophetic “sight.” Itbegan to manifest.A more objective account of Nostradamus life resumes upon his return toProvence in 1544, where he resurfaced back into the mainstream of life at the timeof one of the century’s worst bouts of pestilence. He almost single-handedly curedthe city of Aix and Salon from plague and controlled the threat of an epidemic ofwhooping cough in Lyon. It is in the printing center of Lyon that he made his firstpublishing contact that would lead to his string of best selling books; however, it isin Salon Provence that he found a second life and started a new family. He marrieda rich widow – her deceased husband perhaps was one of his patients he couldn’tsave. They combined their treasures for he himself was also made wealthy by therewards of money for his efforts fighting the plague. They set up house in Salon,building a third floor upon it that stands even to this day. It included a secret studyand a rooftop observatory for Nostradamus to muse on the stars’ play with thecycles of time.At this time he also plunged wholeheartedly into the occult. In 1550, he beganpublishing annual Almanacs with a few cautious stabs at prediction. They becamebestsellers. He next embarked in 1554 on an ambitious project called Les Propheties(The Prophecies). It is a future history of the world, told in enigmatic quatrains,incorporating a polyglot smattering of French, Latin, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, andGreek. His carefully crafted cryptic and nebulous writing style has caught interpretersof prophecy in his cleverly set intellectual traps, generation after generation to this