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Credit: L'inconnu = The unknown / By Camille Flammarion. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dream the night before, at the very moment when he was re- lating this dream to his friends. Eead also in the same writer of the premonitory dream of Crœsus, in which he saw his son Athys killed by a murderous brand, when he had endeavored to guard him from all dan- gers, and had confided him to the care of a man who killed him in a wild boar hunt (vii., § ii., 4). Pliny the Younger relates in his letters (book vii.) the story of a haunted house at Athens, and of a spectre who re- claimed his burial place. Vopiscus mentions a prediction made by a Druid priestess to Diocletian, in reference to his future destiny. Gregory of Tours affirms that on the day of the death of St. Martin of Tours (in the year 400) St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, saw and conversed with the dying man while in a state of unconsciousness. We know that the same thing hap- pened in the last century with Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, at the death of Pope Clement XIV. {Stella, p. 75). These examples are not very rare in the lives of saints. Petrarch, in 1348, saw his beloved Laura appear to him in a dream the day that she drew her last breath, and in remem- brance of this event wrote a beautiful poem {■ The Triumph of Death). Pope Pius II. (Eneas Sylvius) relates in his History of Bo- hemia, how Charles, son of John, King of Bohemia, who was afterwards the Emperor Charles IV., was told in a dream of the death of the Dauphin (August, 26th, 1336). [I owe my knowledge of this story to M. Mourrel de Monestier, who also made me acquainted with the apparition of a dying person described by Nicolas Charrier, Advocate in the Parliament of Grenoble in the seventeenth century.] Jeanne d'Arc predicted her own death. It had been predicted to Catherine de Medici that her three sons should be kings. Agrippa d'Aubigné mentions the apparition of the Cardinal de Lorraine, on the day and at the hour of his death, to Catherine de Medici. Jean Stœffler, an astrologer (1472-1530), announced the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21052177_0501.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
