Nostradamus is probably the most famous secular prophet of all time. He has a gift for prophecy. Let look at some of the following stories pertaining to his uncanny  prophecies /inexplicable foresight:

• In Italy, on one occasion, Nostradamus knelt down before a young monk who passed him in the street addressing him as “Your Holiness”. The young man was Felice Peretti, a one-time swineherd who became Pope Sixtus V in 1585, 19 years after Nostradamus’s death

• another more interesting prophecy story was when Nostradamus was a dinner guest, the host tried to disaprove his clairvoyant abilities by asking him to predict the fate of two pigs, one black and one white. Nostradamus replied that they would eat the black pig while a wolf would devour the white one. The host then gave a secret instructions to his cook to prepare the white pig for dinner and when the meal was served confronted Nostradamus with the edible evidence of his error.But Nostradamus stuck to his guns. Eventually the cook was summoned and confounded his employer by confessing that it was indeed the black pig that they had eaten; he had been preparing to cook the white one when a wolf cub that was being held on the estate had broken into the kitchen and made off with the white pig.