References to crusaders and Templars or to a future remake of the crusades against the Moslems. The criteria for regrouping the quatrains are based on some identified keywords.
Middle East
8.80 Red
"The blood of innocents, widow and virgin,"
"so many evils committed by means of the Great Red One,"
"holy images placed over burning candles,"
"terrified by fear, none will be seen to move."
8.78 Military Church, sancturary rather than temple - référence to the Templars (crusaders)
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue
will come to the sanctuary of the gods.
He will open the door to heretics
and raise up the Church militant.
8.81 Philippe Auguste or Philippe 1rst
The new empire in desolation
will be changed from the Northern Pole.
From Sicily will come such trouble that
it will bother the enterprise tributary to Philip.
8.90 Crusaders
"When those of the cross are found their senses troubled,"
"in place of sacred things he will see a horned bull,"
"through the virgin the pig's place will then be filled,"
order will no longer be maintained by the king.
A5808 Crusaders
The noise will be vain, the faltering ones bundled up,
The Shaven Ones captured: the all-powerful One elected:
The two Reds and four true crusaders to fail,
Rain troublesome to the powerful Monarch.
8.13 Crusading brothers
The crusader brother through impassioned love
will cause Bellerophon to die through Proteus;
"the fleet for a thousand years, the maddened woman,"
"the potion drunk, both of them then die."
5.16 Croissar=Crusades or Croissant (crescent)
"The Sabaean tear no longer at its high price,"
"Turning human flesh into ashes through death,"
"At the isle of Pharos disturbed by the Crusaders,"
When at Rhodes will appear a hard phantom.
Posted by: John
The French word Croissar would either mean crusade (croisade) or crescent (croissant) - referring to Moslems in one way or the other.
9.60 Crusades / Ismael / Lusitania
"Conflict Barbarian in the black Headdress,"
"Blood shed, Dalmatia to tremble:"
"Great Ishmael will set up his promontory,"
Frogs to tremble Lusitania aid.
9.61 Malte / Templars (crusaders) or HospItalyrs
"The plunder made upon the marine coast,"
In Cittanova and relatives brought forward:
Several of Malta through the deed of Messina
Will be closely confined poorly rewarded.
10.31 Ismaelites
"The Holy Empire will come into Germany,"
The Ishmaelites will find open places:
"The asses will want also Carmania,"
The supporters all covered by earth.
9.43 Ismaelites
On the point of landing the Crusader army
"Will be ambushed by the Ishmaelites,"
"Struck from all sides by the ship Impetuosity,"
Rapidly attacked by ten elite galleys.
3.77 Templar
The third climate included under Aries
"The year 1727 in October,"
The King of Persia captured by those of Egypt:
"Conflict, death, loss: to the cross great shame."
Posted by: Raul Lence King
Potentially refers to the loss of the real cross during the crusades.
Posted by: RaulentRoi
Perte de la "Vraie croix" durant les croisades (qui était une fausse et dont un petit bout peut être vu à la cathédrale de Notre Dame à Paris).
Israel
10.100 Disembarkment - Jews in Palestine
"The great empire will be for England,"
The all-powerful one for more than three hundred years:
"Great forces to pass by sea and land,"
The Lusitanians will not be satisfied thereby.
4.56 Raving langue
"After the victory of the raving tongue,"
The spirit tempered in tranquillity and repose:
"Throughout the conflict the bloody victor makes orations,"
Roasting the tongue and the flesh and the bones.
Posted by: John
In French the raving tongue is "langue rabieuse" - the word reminds of Rabbi, thus designating either the Jews or the Arabs.
H063 Holy ware - followed
For the clergy there will be but utter desolation. The warlords will usurp what is returned from the City of the Sun, from Malta and the Isles of Hyhres. The great chain of the port which wakes its name from the marine ox will be opened.
H064 Holy ware - followed
And a new incursion will be made by the maritime shores, wishing to deliver the Sierra Morea from the first Mahometan recapture.
H065 Holy ware followed
Their assaults will not all be in vain, and the place which was once the abode of Abraham will be assaulted by persons who hold the Jovialists in veneration. And this city of "Achem" will be surrounded and assailed on all sides by a most powerful force of warriors.
H066 Holy ware - followed
Their maritime forces will be weakened by the Westerners, and great desolation will fall upon this realm. Its greatest cities will be depopulated and those who enter will fall under the vengeance of the wrath of God.
H067 Holy ware - followed
The sepulcher, for long an object of such great veneration, will remain in the open, exposed to the sight of the heavens, the Sun and the Moon. The holy place will be converted into a stable for a herd large and small, and used for profane purposes. Oh, what a calamitous affliction will pregnant women bear at this time.
A6608 Salutary rains, women out of danger
Rains very excessive, and of blessings abundance,
The cattle price to be just, women outside of danger:
Hail, rain, thunder: people depressed in France,
Through death they will work, death to reprove people.
Posted by: Laury
Most probably refers to the breastfeeding women who will get very ill.
6.96 Great city
"Great city abandoned to the soldiers,"
Never was mortal tumult so close to it:
"Oh, what a hideous calamity draws near,"
Except one offense nothing will be spared it.
Muslims
Quatrains that contain the word Croissant (or Crescent).
10.95 Croissant (crescent) and Friday
"To the Spains will come a very powerful King,"
By land and sea subjugating the South:
"This evil will cause, lowering again the crescent,"
Clipping the wings of those of Friday.
6.27 Croissant (crescent), Chyren, Selin
"Within the Isles of five rivers to one,"
Through the expansion of the great Chyren Selin:
"Through the drizzles in the air the fury of one,"
"Six escaped, hidden bundles of flax."
6.78 Selin Croissant (crescent)
To proclaim the victory of the great expanding Selin:
"By the Romans will the Eagle be demanded,"
"Pavia, Milan and Genoa will not consent thereto,"
Then by themselves the great Lord claimed.
7.7 Croissant (crescent)
"Upon the struggle of the great light horses,"
it will be claimed that the great crescent is destroyed.
"To kill by night, in the mountains,"
"dressed in shepherdÆs' clothing, red gulfs in the deep ditch."
7.25 Croissant (crescent) of the Moon
"Through long war all the army exhausted,"
so that they do not find money for the soldiers;
"instead of gold or silver, they will come to coin leather,"
"Gallic brass, and the crescent sign of the Moon."
3.20 Islamic Invasion of Spain
Through the regions of the great river Guadalquivir
Deep in Iberia to the Kingdom of Grenada
Crosses beaten back by the Mahometan peoples
One of Cordova will betray his country
3.64 Islamic war in the Adriatic Sea
"The chief of Persia will occupy great Olchades,"
The trireme fleet against the Mahometan people
"From Parthia, and Media: and the Cyclades pillaged:"
Long rest at the great Ionian port.
2.1 Port Selin, British
Towards Aquitaine by the British Isles
By these themselves great incursions.
"Rains, frosts will make the soil uneven,"
Port Selyn will make mighty invasions
1.18 War in the Méditerranean
Because of French discord and negligence
an opening shall be given to the Mohammedans.
"The land and sea of Siena will be soaked in blood,"
and the port of Marseilles covered with ships and sails.
2.86 Islamic war in the Adriatic Sea
Wreck for the fleet near the Adriatic Sea:
The land trembles stirred up upon the air placed on land:
"Egypt trembles Mahometan increase,"
The Herald surrendering himself is appointed to cry out.
3.23 Islamic war in the Adriatic Sea and Lygustic Sea
"If, France, you pass beyond the Ligurian Sea,"
You will see yourself shut up in islands and seas:
"Mahomet contrary, more so the Adriatic Sea:"
You will gnaw the bones of horses and asses.
4.82 Moslems
"A throng approaches coming from Slavonia,"
The old Destroyer the city will ruin:
"He will see his Romania quite desolated,"
Then he will not know how to put out the great flame.
1.73 France, Barcelona
France shall be accused of neglect by her five partners.
"Tunis, Algiers stirred up by the Persians."
"Leon, Seville and Barcelona having failed,"
they will not have the fleet because of the Venetians.
