Bulgaria, Russia Mark 100th Birthday of Bulgarian Prophet Woman Vanga

Bulgarian prophet woman Vanga shortly before her death in 1996. Photo by 24 Chasa daily

31/1/2011

Bulgaria marks Monday, January 31, 2011, the 100th birthday of prophet Vanga, an anniversary widely covered in the media in Russia where the Bulgarian clairvoyant is very popular.

Vangeliya Gushterova, aka Vanga (or Baba, i.e. Grandmother Vanga) was a blind Bulgarian prophet, mystic, and herbalist who has predicted a number of global political events, and is also known to have had healing power.

Vanga (1911-1996) was born in Strumitsa, today in the Republic of Macedonia, but spent most of her life in Rupite near Petrich in Southerwestern Bulgaria.

The long list of political events predicted by Vanga include the start of World War II, the deaths of Hitler and Stalin, the democratic transition in Bulgaria in the 1990s, the Warsaw Pact intervention in the former Czechoslovakia, the political unrest in Lebanon, the election victory and the assassinations of India’s Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the was in Nicaragua in 1979, the death of Bulgaria’s Tsar Boris III in 1943, the “return” of his exiled son, Simeon Saxe-Coburg (Tsar of the Bulgarians in 1943-1946, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2001-2005) but not as a Tsar, the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the late 1990s, the September 11 terrorist attacks, the coming together of Russia, China, and India.

In a large article on Monday, the Russian paper Pravda points out estimates that about 70% of Vanga’s prophecies have come true. It mentions that one prophecy that did not come true was an intervention of Soviet forces in Chile during the Cold War.

On Monday, the Russian media feature a lot more stories and films about Vanga than do Bulgarian media testifying to her huge popularity in the former Soviet Union states.

However, the recent years have seen a lot of untrue publications in Russian and Ukrainian media about Vanga’s predictions with respect to the start of World War III and the end of the world, which have been completely refuted by Vanga’s Bulgarian friends and researchers.

Some of Baba Vanga’s prophecies yet expected to come true are the creation of a union of Balkan states, inventions of cures for cancer and AIDS, a depreciation of gold.

Vanga’s museum-house in Petrich will see a special consecration ritual to honor her 100 birthday, an Eastern Orthodox ritual that she performed on her birthday.

On the occasion of Vanga’s 100th birthday, the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport, IT and Communications has launched a special postal stamp.

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