Wed Oct 30, 2024 - 5:13 pm EDTThu Oct 31, 2024 - 7:48 am EDT (LifeSiteNews) — An Italian astronomer believes he has discovered a symbolic list of the popes elected from 1534 to 2005 in the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Alessandro Massano, a Catholic at the Alpette Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium in Turin, Italy, appeared this month on the Codice Ratzinger (“Ratzinger Code”) podcast hosted by journalist Andrea Cionci to discuss his extraordinary findings. Massano has discovered both that the number of stars that appear on Our Lady’s mantle on St. Juan Diego’s tilma (cactus fiber cloak) corresponds to the number of popes after Clement VII, pontiff when Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531, to Benedict XVI (46), but the number of stars in each constellation also corresponds to the number of times a pontiff chose a particular name. The podcast has been posted to YouTube with English subtitles to make the discovery of this apparent prophecy known internationally. …