History 3850 Readings Millennialism
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| Of the few fragments of evidence available
surrounding the debate around the year 1,000, this excerpt from Abbo of
Fleury gives one of the few clear indications that at least some groups
were worried about the approach of the Millennium. ABBO OF FLEURY, Apologetic Work When I was a young man I heard a sermon about the End of the world preached before the people in the cathedral of Paris. According to this, as soon as the number of a thousand years was completed, the Antichrist would come and the Last Judgment would follow in a brief time. I opposed this sermon with what force I could from passages in the Gospels, Revelation, and the Book of Daniel. Finally my abbot of blessed memory, Richard, wisely overthrew an error which had grown up about the End of the world after he received letters from the Lotharingians which he bade me answer. The rumor had filled almost the whole world that when the feast of the Annunciation coincided with Good Friday without any doubt the End of the world would occur.
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