!? Hepidanus of St. Gallen
(c. 1010 / 1034 – c. 1072 /1088)
STATUS –SUSPECTED
FORGERY / HOAX, early source still not found. All evidence points to a
possible pseudo-prophecy attributed to him.
The first publication of a
long prophecy in German about a huge World War attributed to a
Benedictine 'Swiss Monk' named Hepidanus of the St. Gallen monastery
was published in 1866 and can be found in old book store lists, but
no extant copy has been found. The earliest surviving publication is
that by Father Ellerhorst in his book “Prophecies about the fate of
Europe” (1951). He claims his sources were from the books just
described printed by the 'Lengfeld bookshop'. 5th edition. Cologne
1866., The 10th edition entitled “St. Gallen hepidannus,
visions and predictions regarding the present and future”. Lengfeld
bookshop. 10th edition 8 °. 16 p. Cologne 1866. (Source: see
footnote 1 below.)
Strangely, Igor Bukker in
his article “Who Profits from Prophecies About World War Three?”
(July 28, 2017) (2) has declared people have contacted the head of
the scientific department of the library in the Abbey of St. Gall,
Herr Karl Schmucky, in order to find out if these prophecies are
true. Schmucky admitted that he had heard something about the
predictions of the monk and replied:
"Every three or four
years we receive requests about alleged visions and prophecies made
by the monk from the monastery of St. Gall, known for his Latinised
name as Hepidannus or Hepidanus."
However, according to Karl Schmucky, there was no monk with this, or
a similar name, in the monastery of St. Gall.
Personally, I find that very
strange as medieval library catalogue websites listed under
'Literature / Evidence” on 'Deutsche
Biographie' provides the names and / or information of real
medieval manuscripts by a monk named Hepidanus of St. Gall, who also
went by or was recognised under the various spellings of his name:
“Hepidannus”, “Hermannus, Sangallensis”, “Herimannus
monachus Sangallensis”, “Hermann von St. Galen”, “Hepixannus”,
“Hepidanni, Monachi de St. Galli”, “Herimann, from Sankt
Gallen”, etc. Multiple variations of a name was common back then.
(Note, not to be confused with the Monk Hermannus of St. Gallen who
died c. 925 AD, but it is probable that their texts and names do get
confused!)
In
all, there is evidence a Hepidanus of St. Gallen lived around the
early part of the turn of the last millennium, (why the head of the
scientific department in the St. Gall library had not heard of him is
a mystery!), but, the only indication of the earliest text we have
for his prophecies is 1866. At least the original book shop and
printers established in 1842 is still in existence:
www.lengfeldsche.de,
so
the book about his prophecies was not some illegal pirate edition
with a fake publisher attached to it. However, the copy is not
extant, which is strange. One might think one copy at least survived
in a library archive somewhere.
In
any case, when the only known early source of a set of prophecies
dating from the medial period is 1866, it is usually a red flag of a
fake set of prophecies printed just for the book market.
For
a monk with many medieval manuscripts written by him to have
survived, but to find nothing written about his prophecies earlier
than 1866 sounds like an elaborate forgery – the medieval name is
famous enough to lend a fake prophecy credibility, yet still obscure
enough and difficult to research so the fake cannot be discovered, especially during a time before the Internet and access to digital catalogues. We
note Hepidanus was obviously a well known and respected scholar in
his time, and to not have a set of prophecies or visions of him
circulate widely sometime in the medieval period sounds very
suspicious indeed. Also, connecting an alleged medieval prophecy to
the Abbey of St. Gallen famed for its vast collection of medieval
manuscripts is another clever way to lend credibility.
As
there is no early proof this text was transcribed by Hepidanus of St.
Gallen and looks like a forgery, it is not in the Timeline.
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Footnotes:
(1)
https://schauungen.de/wiki/Hepidanus_von_St._Gallen
– the German name for the books are: “Hepidannus von St. Gallen,
Visionen und Vorhersagen, die Gegenwart und Zukunft betreffend.
Lengfeld'sche Buchhandlung. 10. Aufl. 8°. 16 S. Köln 1866”
(2) “Читайте
больше на” -
https://www.pravdareport.com/society/138280-world_war_three_prophecy/
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Post published Aug. 5,
2020
