Olive Oil and Cathedrals, the Last Pope, and the Cat picture A Dash Of Olive Oil May Preserve British Cathedral A report from NPR about using the oleic acid from Olive Oil to preserve York Minster in England Will this be the last Pope?According to a report from Discovery.com, a 12th century prophecy suggests that the about-to-be-elected Pope will be the last one before the Last Judgment. Apparently, in 1139 an Irish archbishop named St. Malachy gave Pope Innocent II a list of who the next 112 Popes will be. This 112th Pope will be named Peter the Roman, and according to the prophecy will “feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the City of the Seven Hills shall be utterly destroyed, and the awful Judge will judge the people.” The document containing the prophecy was found in the Vatican Archives in 1590, and many scholars believe it was actually created in the sixteenth century.The Cat and the ManuscriptThis great picture went viral last week - Emir O. Filipovic, a scholar working in the Dubrovnik State Archives in Croatia, found this when he opened up a manuscript. Apparently, a 15th-century cat must have got his paws into the ink, then onto this document. Emir took a photo of it, and later on tweeted to Erik Kwakkel and from there it went call over the world. Click here to read Emir's article about it. Twitter Facebook Google Tumblr Pinterest Artikel Menarik Lainnya The Five Worst Popes of the Middle AgesWith a new Pope about to be chosen, it might be a good time to look at some of his predecessors, anPirates, Doodles and Sinking Castles - Medieval News RoundupThis week's collection of news and tweets for medievalists. [View the story "Pirates, Doodles and SMinaret of Aleppo's Umayyad Mosque destroyedThe minaret of Aleppo's historic Umayyad mosque has been destroyed, with video showing the famous sCrusader Feces, Bat Feces, Latin swear words, and building a village - medieval news roundupHere are some news stories from the medievalverse, and a few from beyond it...Crusader FecesAn artiBulk of Timbuktu manuscripts survived occupation unharmedThe majority of Timbuktu's ancient manuscripts appear to be safe and unharmed after the Saharan citSealed Under Turkish Mud, a Well-Preserved Byzantine ChapelIn the fourth century A.D., a bishop named Nicholas transformed the city of Myra, on the Mediterran