seven-hilled city

According to Malachy's visions, 'Petrus Romanus' will be the 112th and final pope after whom it is stated that the 'the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people'.

Such were the vast schemes - extending into yet wider fields of glory and conquest, bounded only by the Alps - with which the Captain of the Grand Company beheld the columns and arches of the Seven-hilled City.

The ominous phrase No 112, reads: 'In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Petrus Romanus (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.'