Note 247 — Chapter VIII · THE LAST DAYS OF MICHAEL SCOT
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Similar deceitful prophecies are not uncommon in mediæval story. Walter Map in the De Nugis Curialium tells how Silvester II. was assured by his familiar spirit that he would not die till he had said Mass at Jerusalem. The prediction was fulfilled, however, when the Pope did so at the altar called ‘in Gerusalemme’ in one of the Roman Churches, and soon thereafter expired.