About the author

Hello and welcome, my name is David L Roper and I am a former teacher and tutor of mathematics, who for more than two decades taught at senior level, and ran Olympiad Mathematic classes for aspiring pupils. His involvement in education began after pursuing a career in accountancy at both management level and then as a senior auditor. After taking early retirement he turned his attention to authorship; having found there existed a vacancy in deciphering the work of earlier ages that had lacked sufficient ability to penetrate the depth required for revealing all that lay hidden. This proved decisive when interpreting the Latin riddles that were set as clues to the identity of each Pope; especially in the order predicted, covering more than eight and a half centuries. For each riddle correctly foretold its meaning. Conclusion?  Who but God could have achieved this 100% accuracy—but why? It is for readers to digest, and follow the path of reason, by pursuing the consequences that arise.