Look Mum No Hands!

the more you know: many christians in italy actually believe this.  I noticed it on facebook where on news posts would occasionally pop up someone saying “just a little bit more, we just have to bear it for a little more” and I was like ??? but then I did some research and found out that 2016 is believed to be the last year of satan’s 100 years of free reign on the earth (the thing was caused by one of the bets that god and satan tends to do occasionally, and that pope Leo XIII saw in a vision in 1884). one of the sources spreading the theory is HERE, but of course it’s all in italian. some points are:  - During a vision in 1820, it was revealed to Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick that Satan would have been freed from the chains about eighty years before the year 2000. This period of freedom for the fallen angel would last a century. -  This is confirmed by a message from Madonna of Medjugorje given to the seers in April 24, 1982  -  Further confirmation comes from a vision seen by Pope Leo XIII described as follows: On the morning of October 13, 1884–

Makes sense. WWI let him loose and it took him a while to gather steam but then he had a really big debut in the thirties. And if the math is precise then it’ll end in 2020, the same year that we have a new presidential election and, coincidentally, my student loan payments end. 

Pretty sure it involves a bet and a gold fiddle.