Inscription on Constantine's tomb

[Robert Hegwood]

I'm trying to track down information on a cryptic prophecy that was supposedly carved/written on St. Constantine's tomb. It perported to tell of the rise of Islam, the fall of Constantinople and the eventual fall of Islam. Supposedly the first two events have come to pass as it said, which would make one hopeful in regard to the third...which if I recall rightly should be in about 30 or so years.

Of course this all depends on it actually dating from the time of St. Constantine or there abouts I would think (assuming it actually exists). Anyway does anyone know what this inscription is, what it says, or anything about its history that would serve to validate or invalidate its provinance?

Let me say in closing I know it is not the best of ideas to get too enamored with or too embroiled with prophecies, even trusted ones, Orthodoxy doesn't need it own Late Great Planet Earth affictionados distracting everyone with the news from tomorrow when the repentance needful for the day should be attended to. Still, with that in mind, if anyone has any information/links to share on this it would be appreciated.

[Peter Farrington]

There is probably some info here, but the prophecies all seem related to the time of the last Emperor Constantine and I would not give them any credence whatsoever.

"..Finally, he recorded the prophecy that when an Emperor and a Patriarch whose names began with the letters Jo- reigned at the same time, then the end of the Empire and of the church would be at hand. So it had come about. For the men who brought ruin οn the church in Italy (at the Council of Florence) were Joannes the Emperor and Joseph the Patriarch. Gennadios was an accomplished scholar but he retained a naive faith in prophecies. It had long been foretold that the world would end with the Second Coming of Christ which, οn Byzantine calculation, was scheduled to happen in the 7000th year after the creation of the world (in 5509-08 BC), or in AD 1492. He took some comfort therefore from the belief that, in 1453, there was not long to go."

http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/nicol_condeath.html

Peter

[Fr Raphael Vereshack]

Gennadios was an accomplished scholar but he retained a naive faith in prophecies. It had long been foretold that the world would end with the Second Coming of Christ which, οn Byzantine calculation, was scheduled to happen in the 7000th year after the creation of the world (in 5509-08 BC), or in AD 1492. He took some comfort therefore from the belief that, in 1453, there was not long to go."

Considering what 1492 represents for the native peoples of the westen hemisphere perhaps the prohecy was right that the world- their world at least- would end.


In Christ- Fr Raphael