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Popes and corresponding mottos
The list can be divided into two groups; one of the 74 popes and antipopes who reigned prior to the appearance of the prophecies c. 1590, for whom the connection between the motto and the pope is consistently clear. The other is of the 38 mottos attributed to popes who have reigned since 1590, for whom the connection between the motto and the pope is often strained or totally absent and could be viewed as shoehorning or postdiction.

René Thibaut divides the table at a different point, between the 71st and 72nd motto, asserting that there is a change in style at this point. He uses this distinction to put forward the view that the first 71 mottos are post-dated forgeries, while the remainder are genuine. Hildebrand Troll echoes this view, noting that mottos 72-112 use a symbolic language related to the character of the pope and his papacy, in contrast to the more literal mottos for earlier popes.

Popes and antipopes 1143–1590 (pre-publication)
The text on the silver lines below reproduces the original text (including punctuation and orthography) of the 1595 Lignum Vitae, which consisted of three parallel columns for the popes before 1590. The first column contained the motto, the second the name of the pope or antipope to whom it was attached (with occasional errors), and the third an explanation of the motto. There are some indications that both the mottos and explanations were the work of a single 16th century individual. The original list was unnumbered.

Popes 1590 to present (post-publication)
For this group of popes, the published text only provides names for the first three (i.e., those who were popes between the appearance of the text c. 1590, and its publication in 1595) and provides no explanations.

Novels

 * Pope Patrick is a novel about the then Pope John Paul II's supposed successor, the fictional Pope Patrick I. The novel assumes that 'Petrus Romanus', the last Pope in St Malachy's list, is to be regarded as some kind of unreal supernatural being, and that consequently Pope Patrick will be the last real Pope.


 * Glory of the Olive: A Novel of the Time of Tribulation (first published in 2002) is a novel featuring the fictional Pope Peter II. "Glory of the Olive" is the Malachite attribute of the successor to the then Pope John Paul II.


 * The Roman: Peter II... The Last Pope? is a novel featuring the fictional Pope Peter II as successor to the Pope Benedict XVI. The novel begins with the Malachite prophecy concerning Peter the Roman, the last Pope in the Malachite list.


 * The Third Secret is a novel featuring the fictional Pope Peter II (originally Cardinal Valendrea), who is elected Pope after the death of the fictional Pope Clement XV.


 *  The Devil Will Come (novel) by Glenn Cooper is a novel which uses the Malachy Prophecy as a part of the storyline in the book which spans generations, leading to the "modern day" conclave to elect a new pope and the attempt to destroy the Catholic faith by an enemy of the church.

List of fictional Popes Peter II
(Note: The final Pope in the Malachite list is called Peter the Roman)


 * Pope Peter II – War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ by Vladimir S. Solovyov
 * Pope Peter II – Petrus Secundus by Harold J. Frysne
 * Pope Peter II – Peter the Second by Bruce Marshall (Third part of a Trilogy)
 * Pope Peter II – The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore
 * Pope Peter II – The Final Restoration by John Cantwell Kiley
 * Pope Peter II – The Reckoning by Thomas F. Monteleone
 * Pope Peter II – The Third Secret: A Novel Of Suspense by Steve Berry
 * Pope Peter II – Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
 * Pope Peter II – Glory of the Olive: A Novel of the Time of Tribulation by Susan Claire Potts
 * Pope Peter II – En el mar de la duda by Pedro De Illanez
 * Pope Peter II – The Roman: Peter II... The Last Pope? by George R. Araujo-Matiz
 * Pope Peter II – Fumata Bianca by Giuseppe Magnarapa
 * Pope Peter II – I giorni della tempesta by Antonio Socci
 * Pope Peter II (Antipope)– L'évangile selon Satan by Patrick Graham