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Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.
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Beatus and followed
Beatus was persuaded that the Apocalypse described in the book of Revelation was imminent, which would be followed by 1, 290 years of domination by the Antichrist.
Beatus and Saint
Beatus took data from the works of Saint Isidore of Seville, Ptolemy and the Holy Scripture.
The beautiful pulpit erected for him in 1481 in the nave of the cathedral, when the chapel of Saint Lawrence had proved too small, still bears witness to the popularity he enjoyed as a preacher in the immediate sphere of his labors, and the testimonies of Sebastian Brant, Beatus Rhenanus, Johann Reuchlin, Philipp Melanchthon and others show how great had been the influence of his personal character.
Saint Beatus of Liébana ( c. 730 – c. 800 ) was a monk, theologian and geographer from the Kingdom of Asturias, in modern northern Spain, who worked and lived in the Picos de Europa mountains of the region of Liébana, in what is now Cantabria and his feast day is February 19.
Beatus includes long extracts from the texts of the Fathers of the Church and Doctors of the Church, especially Augustine of Hippo ( Saint Augustine ), Ambrose of Milan ( Saint Ambrose ), Tyconius, Irenaeus of Lyon ( Saint Irenaeus ), and Isidore of Seville ( Saint Isidore ).
* Saint Beatus, Apostle of Switzerland ( 2nd c .)
* A copy of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, ( i. e. Book of Revelation ), especially in illuminated manuscript form, written by Saint Beatus of Liébana ( below ), is often just referred to as a Beatus.
* Beatus of Lungern or Saint Beatus of Beatenberg or Thun, a semi-legendary figure who is considered the saint of Switzerland.
* Saint Beatus, Bishop of Amiens, France in the 5th century
* Saint Beatus of Liébana, a Spanish monk who lived in the 8th century, in San Martin de Turieno in Liebana.
Beatus and whose
The most prominent Christian scholar in the Kingdom of Asturias of this period was Beatus of Liébana, whose works left an indelible mark in the Christian culture of the Reconquista.
Beatus and work
Treating Revelation in his cursory fashion, he made use of an excerpt from the commentary of the North African Tichonius, which is preserved as a sort of argument at the beginning of the more extended work of the Spanish presbyter Beatus of Liébana.
The text of the work, preserved in a single badly written and mutilated manuscript ( discovered by Beatus Rhenanus in 1515 in Murbach Abbey in Alsace and now lost ), is very corrupt.
At the age of eight, he conducted his own choral work Beatus Vir.
This was painted c. 1050 as an illustration to Beatus ' work at the Abbey of Saint-Sever in Aquitaine, on the order of Gregori de Montaner, Abbot from 1028 to 1072
The Saint-Sever Beatus was the work of monks working under the direction of abbot Gregori de Montaner ; Abbot Gregori held the post from 1028 to 1072.
The monastery's scriptorium was an important one, which among other major books produced a finely illuminated Beatus manuscript ( a commentary upon the Apocalypse ); the text was completed ( by two related monks ) in 1091, but the illuminations ( illustrations ) were mostly done later by the prior, who finished his work in 1109.
Beatus and God
His last words, as recorded by his friend Beatus Rhenanus, were " lieve God ", Dutch for Dear God.
Beatus was directly involved in the debate surrounding adoptionism, which argued that Jesus was born a man, and was adopted by God and acquired a divine dimension only after his passion and resurrection.
If a majority of the consultors was favourable, a decree to this effect was issued by the pope, and at the time appointed by him the solemn beatification of the servant of God took place in the Vatican Basilica, on which occasion a pontifical Brief was issued permitting the public cultus and veneration of the beatified person now known as Blessed ( Beatus ).
Beatus and Commentaries
The most transcendental works of Beatus were his Commentaries to Apocalypse, which were copied in later centuries in manuscripts called beati, about which the Italian writer Umberto Eco said: " Their splendid images gave birth to the most relevant iconographic happening in the History of Mankind ".
Beatus and which
The prophetic and millennialist visions of Beatus produced an enduring mark in the development of the Kingdom of Asturias: the Chronica Prophetica, which was composed circa 880 AD, predicted the final fall of the Emirate of Córdoba, and the conquest and redemption of the entire Iberian peninsula by king Alfonso III.
Third, he cited a few ancient authorities, Tertullian, Origen, Gratian's Decretum, and Beatus Rhenanus ( by which he meant collections of ancient texts edited by Rhenanus, a contemporary of Rothmann ), who at least to some degree supported directly or indirectly adult baptism and immersion.
These " Beatus maps " are believed to derive from a single ( now lost ) original which was used to illustrate the missions of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ.
Though Beatus may have written his commentaries as a response to Adoptionism in Hispania of the late 700s, many believe that the book's popularity in monasteries stemmed from the presence in Iberia of Islam, which the Christian religious believed to represent the Antichrist.
This article draws heavily on the: fr: Beatus article in the French-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of October 17, 2007.
The Tree is also often found in Psalters, especially English manuscripts, illustrating the B initial of Beatus Vir .., the beginning of Psalm 1, which often occupies a whole page.
His father, Antoine Bild, was a prosperous butcher from Rhinau ( the source of his name " Rhenanus ", which Beatus Latinised from his father, who was known as the " Rhinauer ", the " man from Rheinau ").
Beatus and was
In Spain, Adoptionism was opposed by Beatus of Liebana, and in the Carolingian territories, the Adoptionist position was condemned by Pope Hadrian I, Alcuin of York, Agobard, and officially in Carolingian territory by the Council of Frankfurt ( 794 ).
At the same time, Beatus strengthened the links between Asturias, Rome, and the Carolingian Empire, and was supported in his theological struggle by the Pope and by his friend Alcuin of York, an Anglo-Saxon scholar who had settled among the Carolingian court in Aachen.
For Beatus, the Whore of Babylon ( Revelation, 17. 4-5 ) ( a Christian allegory of evil ) was incarnated by the Emirate of Cordoba.
This small kingdom was a milestone in the fight against Adoptionist heresy, with Beatus of Liébana as a major figure.
The adoptionist dispute was raging between Elipandus, Archbishop of Toledo, and Beatus of Liébana and even occasioned the intervention of Charlemagne.
The letters that have survived show that he was in correspondence with Peter Schott, Johann Bergmann von Olpe, Emperor Maximilian, Thomas Murner, Konrad Peutinger, Willibald Pirckheimer, Johannes Reuchlin, Beatus Rhenanus, Jakob Wimpfeling and Ulrich Zasius.
Jon Birgerson was succeeded as archbishop by Eystein ( Beatus Augustinus, 1158 – 88 ), previously royal secretary and treasurer, a man of brilliant intellect, strong will and deep piety.
Beatus Rhenanus ( 22 August 1485 – 20 July 1547 ), also known as Beatus Bild, was an Alsatian humanist, religious reformer, and classical scholar.
Beatus and contemporary
He prepared himself with great care for the pulpit, writing out his sermons beforehand, as his contemporary Beatus Rhenanus reports ; those preparatory compositions were drawn up not in German, but in Latin.
Beatus and had
Its core is the still almost intact library of Beatus Rhenanus, that had been bequeathed to the city and kept by it ever since.
It is in this historical context, and in a region where refugees had brought a very rich, artistic culture with them, that Beatus ( in Spanish, Beato ), a monk in a Liebana valley monastery, wrote his commentary on the Book of Revelation.
Beatus and with
** The Beatus Ille or praise of life in the country, apart from material things, as opposed to life in the city, with its dangers and intrigues.
A T and O map or O-T or T-O map ( orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands ; with the letter T inside an O ), is a type of medieval world map, sometimes also called a Beatine map or a Beatus map because one of the earliest known representations of this sort is attributed to Beatus of Liébana, an 8th-century Spanish monk.
Today the centre is run by the Diocese of Morogoro with Father Beatus as appointed director.
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