Sus in cribro
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Jump to navigationJump to search- sus in cribro: (Latin) "a pig in a sieve", referring in The Prophecy of the Popes to Urban III (1185–1187), Milanese, of the Cribella (Crivelli) family, which bears a pig for arms. His family name Crivelli means "a sieve" in Italian. He excommunicated teh Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa.
- The Prophecy of the Popes: attributed to Saint Malachy, a 12th-century Irish bishop. The document is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin. They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143)
