Either this Pope (or a dark skinned one from Africa?) are the last one. Supposedly, Nostradamus predicted this:
The death of the pope is just one of a plethora of Nostradamus's grim predictions for 2025.
The mystic predicted that 2025 would see European powers clash with England, devastating the country and spawning new 'foes'.
Nostradamus also expected 2025 to bring pioneering advances in medicine but that England will be faced yet again with the plague, as well as battle devastating wars.
'When those from the lands of Europe, see England set up her throne behind. Her flanks, there will be cruel wars. The kingdom will be marked by wars so cruel, foes from within and without will arise.'
Many also believe the oracle has predicted the return on the 17th century plague in the words: 'A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.'
In an even more worrying prediction, he suggested next year would see a 'fireball from the cosmos' devastate the earth.
'From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, a harbinger of fate, the world pleads. Science and fate in a cosmic dance, the fate of the Earth, a second chance.'
Though it is possible human extinction will result in the Earth's 'second chance', and that the earth will recover from people's exploitation of resources.
He also anticipated that climate change might cause natural disasters in Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest.
He went on: 'Garden of the world near the new city, In the path of the hollow mountains: It will be seized and plunged into the tub, forced to drink waters poisoned by sulphur.'
Nostradamus had prophesied that an extended war through 2024, like the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, would come to an end next year when the armies are spent.
