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Nostradamus, born Michel de Nostredame, was born in South France in 1503, 21 December. Nostradamus was the son of a grain dealer and was a jewish converted to Catholicism. Notradamus was a very well educated man and whilst not alot is known about his childhood he studied for his baccalaureate at age 15 and in 1592 studied medicine, but due to having been an apothecary was expelled. So Notradamus continued to work in apothecary creating the rose pill which was believed to protect a person form catching the plague, which was rife in Europe at the point.

Notradamus continued to marry and have two children, with a women whos name is thought to be Henriette d'Encausse, after her death (suspected to be the plague) he remarried a woman named Anne Ponsarde Gemelle with who he had six children with. It was now that Notradamus began the work that he was most famous for, Notradamus started to practise Occult and became heavily involved in work in this area, it was also now that Nostradamus changed his name to Nostradamus as it was the latin version of the name he was born with "Nostredame" Occult is the belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control and comes from the word. Occultus meaning "knowlegde of the hidden".

Also more information about Occult and Nostradamus on the next page. More information can be found at the below links.

Nostradamus Biography