900-year-old Vatican book makes eerie claim about when ‘Judgement Day’ will arrive

An old Vatican book dating back a whopping 900 years seems to have predicted when the world is coming to an end - and it's not very far off.

You'd be forgiven for being sceptical, seeing as we've been here before with historical predictions when it comes to the end of life on Earth.

Whether it be the Mayans and their infamous 2012 prediction, or even the late British polymath Sir Isaac Newton's call on the world meeting its demise in 2060.

However, the latest so-called end of the world date has come from a passage in a Vatican text.

The 900-year-old book is called Prophecy of the Popes, which was said to be written by Saint Malachy in the 1100s.

The book predicts when the end of the world is (Getty Stock Photo)

Found in the archives of the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, the book contains 112 cryptic Latin phrases that are said to describe every Pope, from Celestine II in 1143 to Pope Francis today.

It apparently also predicts when Judgement Day, which is when Christians believe Jesus will return, will happen.

The book says we can expect the world to end at some point in 2027, meaning we have two years left before our doom. Not to sound dramatic or anything.

The final passage of text actually reads: “In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End.”

Not to put a spanner in the works though, as the book itself has been written off by many scholars as a forgery of the saint's work that was really published in the 16th Century by Benedictine monk Arnold Wion.

The book has been written off as a forgery by many (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

It was initially believed that Saint Malachy wrote the book after having a vision following a visit to Rome in 1139, but it's since been brought into disrepute, with claims it was really published in 1595.

However, a number of the saint's alleged predictions have been taken seriously, such as a prediction stating that the 111th Pope would be called Gloria Olivae, meaning 'Glory to the olive'.

While the 111th Pope was actually named Pope Benedict, the Order of Saint Benedicts are known as the Olivetans, leading to some believing that the Pope from 2005 to 2013 was correctly predicted.

It has apparently predicted other future events, with some believing that the line 'De labore Solis', meaning 'eclipse of the sun', predicted the arrival of Pope John Paul as the leader of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.

Pope John Paul was born during a solar eclipse, back in the 1920s.