You'll forgive me, I hope, for getting into the weeds of the 2012 phenomena, but I can barely resist the numbers game. (I am, after all, an accountant.) I found this article fascinating. The original is HERE. CMR
02/22/2012
As announced live February 22. 2012 for the Omega Man Radio Show listeners, a world exclusive revelation from the upcoming book Petrus Romanus.
The Belgian Jesuit Rene Thibaut’s book, The Mysterious Prophecy of the Popes, has unlocked an entirely different means of investigating the prophecy of the pope’s fulfillment that no one else seems to have imagined possible. His work is deeply mystical and prohibitively complex to explain exhaustively. It is also out of print, exceedingly rare, and written in French which makes it exorbitantly inaccessible to all but the most dedicated. We can only claim to be scratching the surface of what he presents.
Frankly, we are astounded that the 2012 meme of the last few years did not bring this forgotten volume to light. Please note that we do realize that date-setting has a well-documented 100 percent failure rate but, even so, we must acknowledge, there it is, 2012, brazened all over the pages of this 1951 tome.
The simplest calculation which derives 2012 for the last pope is based on extrapolating the average papal reign of eleven years. Forty popes times eleven years is four hundred forty years: 40 x 11 = 440 Add that to the year 1572 (the year the genuine portion of the prophecy begins) and you land in 2012: 440 + 1572 = 2012 Although Thibaut wrote in 1951, we continued his thesis forward by adding the additional popes. The average eleven-year reign he predicted held true through John Paul II. It certainly did not have to. This was a risky prediction and it was confirmed. If John Paul I had lived a normal lifespan and held a much longer reign instead of dying mysteriously after thirty-three days, this trend might have ended. We even used papal reigns in days to get 1/365th accuracy and our results not only confirmed Thibaut’s work but revealed a potential we did not expect.
The following is a chart rendered from a software spread sheet we used to verify Thibaut’s theory:
| Pope (Reign) | Prophecy | Days | Reign in Years |
| Gregory XIII (May 13, 1572 to April 10, 1585) | 72. Medium corpus pilarum “Half body of the balls” | 4715 | 12.90924568 |
| Sixtus V ( April 24, 1585 to August 27, 1596) | 73. Axis in medietate signi“Axle in the midst of a sign” | 4143 | 11.34316115 |
| Urban VII (September 15, 1590 to September 27, 1590) | 74. De rore caeli “From the dew of the sky” | 12 | 0.03285492 |
| Gregory XIV (December 5, 1590 to October 15, 1591) | 75. Ex antiquitate Urbis “Of the antiquity of the city” | 314 | 0.859703742 |
| Innocent IX (October 29, 1591 to December 30, 1591) | 76. Pia civitas in bello “Pious city in war” | 62 | 0.16975042 |
| Clement VIII (January 30, 1592 to March 3, 1605) | 77. Crux Romulea “Cross of Romulus” | 4781 | 13.08994774 |
| Leo XI (April 1, 1605 to Saturday, April 27, 1605) | 78. Undosus vir “Wavy man” | 26 | 0.07118566 |
| Paul V (May 16, 1605 to Sunday, January 28, 1621) | 79. Gens perversa “Corrupted nation” | 5736 | 15.70465179 |
| Gregory XV (February 9, 1621 to July 8, 1623) | 80. In tribulatione pads “In the trouble of peace” | 879 | 2.406622895 |
| Urban VIII (August 6, 1623 to July 29, 1644) | 81. Lilium & rosa “Lily and rose” | 7663 | 20.98060437 |
| Innocent X (September 15, 1644 to January 7, 1655) | 82. Iucunditas cruds “Delight of the cross” | 3766 | 10.31096908 |
| Alexander VII (April 7, 1655 to May 22, 1667) | 83. Montium custos “Guard of the mountains” | 4428 | 12.1234655 |
| Clement IX (June 20, 1667 to December 9, 1669) | 84. Sydus olorum “Star of the swans” | 903 | 2.472332735 |
| Clement X (April 29, 1670 to July 22, 1676) | 85. De flumine magno “From a great river” | 2276 | 6.231483172 |
| Innocent XI (September 21, 1676 to August 12, 1689) | 86. Bellua insatiabilis “Insatiable beast” | 4708 | 12.89008031 |
| Alexander VIII (October 6, 1689 to February 1, 1691) | 87. Pœnitentia gloriosa “Glorious penitence” | 483 | 1.322410533 |
| Innocent XII (July 12, 1691 to September 27, 1700 ) | 88. Rastrum in porta “Rake in the door” | 3365 | 9.213067168 |
| Clement XI (November 23, 1700 to March 19, 1721) | 89. Flores drcundati “Surrounded flowers” | 7421 | 20.31803015 |
| Innocent XIII (May 8, 1721 to May 29, 1724) | 90. De bona religione “From good religion” | 1117 | 3.058245476 |
| Benedict XIII (May 29, 1724 – February 21, 1730) | 91. Miles in bello“Soldier in War” | 2094 | 5.733183551 |
| Clement XII (July 12, 1730 – February 6, 1740) | 92. Columna excelsa “Lofty column” | 3496 | 9.571733379 |
| Benedict XIV (August 17, 1740 to May 3, 1758) | 93. Animal rurale“Country animal” | 6457 | 17.67868491 |
| Clement XIII (July 6, 1758 to February 2, 1769) | 94. Rosa Umbriae“Rose of Umbria” | 3864 | 10.57928426 |
| Clement XIV (May 18, 1769 to September 22, 1774) | 95. Ursus velox“Swift bear” | 1953 | 5.347138241 |
| Pius VI (February 15, 1775 to August 29, 1799) | 96. Peregrinus apostolicus “Apostolic pilgrim” | 8961 | 24.53441156 |
| Pius VII (March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823) | 97. Aquila rapax “Rapacious eagle” | 8559 | 23.43377174 |
| Leo XII (September 28, 1823 to February 10, 1829) | 98. Cants & coluber“Dog and adder” | 1962 | 5.371779431 |
| Pius VIII (March 31, 1829 to December 1, 1830) | 99. Vir religiosus “Religious man” | 610 | 1.670125103 |
| Gregory XVI (February 2, 1831 to June 1, 1846) | 100. De balneis Ethruriae “From the baths of Tuscany” | 5598 | 15.32682021 |
| Pius IX (June 16, 1846 to February 7, 1878) | 101. Crux de cruce“Cross from cross” | 11,559 | 31.64750175 |
| Leo XIII (February 20, 1878 to July 20, 1903) | 102. Lumen in caelo“Light in the sky” | 9280 | 25.40780485 |
| St. Pius X (August 4, 1903 to August 20, 1914) | 103. Ignis ardens“Burning fire” | 4034 | 11.04472896 |
| Benedict XV (September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922) | 104. Religio depopulata “Religion depopulated” | 2698 | 7.386881195 |
| Pius XI (February 6, 1922 to February 10, 1939) | 105. Fides intrepida“Intrepid faith” | 6213 | 17.01063486 |
| Pius XII (March 2, 1939 to October 9, 1958) | 106. Pastor angelicus“Angelic shepherd” | 7154 | 19.58700818 |
| John XXIII (October 28 , 1958 to June 3, 1963) | 107. Pastor & nauta “Shepherd and sailor” | 1679 | 4.596950899 |
| Paul VI (June 21, 1963 to August 6, 1978) | 108. Flos florum“Flower of flowers” | 5525 | 15.12695278 |
| John Paul I (August 26, 1978 to September 28, 1978) | 109. De medietate lunae“From the midst of the moon” | 33 | 0.09035103 |
| John Paul II (October 16, 1978 to April 2, 2005) | 110. De labore solis“From the labor of the sun” | 9665 | 26.4619002 |
| Benedict XVI (April 19, 2005 – April 29, 2012 ) | 111. Gloria olivae“Glory of the olive” | 2567 | 7.028214984 |
| ? | 112. Petrus Romanus“Peter the Roman” | ||
| Period | Average Reign | ||
| Average reign 1572 to 1951 (@ when Thibaut published) | 11.05255156 | ||
| Average reign 1572 to 2005 (through John Paul II) | 11.1055246 | ||
| Average reign if Benedict XVI is no longer pope by April 29, 2012 = | 11.00359186 | ||
| Days in a year = | 365.2421 | ||
| Thibaut’s Formula = | 40 popes x average 11-year reign = 440 years | ||
| Arrival of Petrus Romanus = | 1572 + 440 = 2012 |
What makes this particularly interesting is that if Pope Benedict were to step down in April, it would yield a near-perfect eleven. Thibaut did not use decimal numbers, so anytime during 2012 would verify he got it right. He simply predicted it would be in the year 2012. Even so, you can imagine our shock as we were translating this from French when we saw this story (click hyperlink below):
If so, then Thibaut was spot on back in 1951. The eleven year average could have been falsified. What if John Paul I had enjoyed a ten year pontificate? Many events could have rendered Thibaut’s work invalid but here we are in 2012 and things are falling neatly in place. We promise the average papal reign calculation is only the beginning. He derives the year 2012 from several other methods of cryptographic analysis form the Latin text of the prophecy of the popes. In Petrus Romanus we painstaking walk you through a few of the calculations. If we weren’t absolutely certain that this was published in 1951, we would accuse the author of going to extravagant lengths to derive 2012. However, we can think of no obvious reason the Jesuit mathematician would want to derive 2012 other than he believed it to be the case. The year 2012 was not even on the radar in 1951, and Thibaut died in 1952. It certainly did not make him famous and his book is now extremely obscure. 2012 is upon us and the buzz from the Vatican only seems to confirm the prophecy.
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