 In his prognostication, Gersonides predicts that there will be “extraordinary evil with many wars, visions and miraculous signs;” “Diseases and death, and the evil will endure for a long time;” “the absence of good, pleasure and happiness for most of the inhabited world;” “the spilling of much blood and increasing enmity, jealousy, strife, famine, various diseases, drought and dearth” (Goldstein 1990). The Black Death, which arrived in Europe in 1347, was thus provided with numerous astrological credentials. The official statement of the medical faculty of the University of Paris, presented to the king in 1348, reported on the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the house of Aquarius on 20 March 1345, which was seen to spread “death and disaster”. It is not hard to see how the conjunction of 1345 came to be associated with the Black Death.