ADSO of MONTIER-EN-DER (c. 910 / 915 - 992 AD) Born of a noble family,
Adso was an oblate at the monastery of Luxeuil, where he also
received his education. He was later called to teach at the monastery
of St. Èvre in Toul, and in 935 he entered the Benedictine monastery
at Montier-en-Der. In 968, when he became abbot of Montier-en-Der,
he began to introduce reforms there in the tradition of the monastery
at Gorze. Adso had contacts with the leading religious and political
figures of his day, notably Gerberga, the wife of Louis IV of France
and sister of Otto I of Germany; Gerbert of Aurillac (the future Pope
Sylvester II); and Abbo of Fleury, who asked Adso to compile a verse
edition of the second book of the Dialogues, a hagiographic and
doctrinal text composed by Pope Gregory I. Along with his verse
edition of the Dialogues, which is now lost, he wrote other works in
verse and several poems and hymns. He was also the author of a number
of saints’ lives. His hagiographic works in particular reveal his
devotion to the religious reform current in his day. In 990 Adso
became the abbot of the monastery of St. Bénigne in Dijon. His
death two years later occurred while he was on pilgrimage to the Holy
Land.
Adso’s
most important text was the Epistola ad Gerbergam reginam de ortu et
tempore Antichristi (“Letter to Queen Gerberga on the Place and
Time of Antichrist”), also known as the Libellus de Antichristi
(“Little Book on the Antichrist”). This book became the standard
text on the topic of the Antichrst from the mid 10th to the 13
century.
Adso affirmed the
Antichrist will not come until after the reign of the King of France and his Roman Empire comes to an
end, thereby confirming the general agreement among the past saints
and doctors of the Church that there would be a Great Monarch before
then, a ruler of France who will reign over the Roman Christian
Empire:
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"… the Empire of the Romans began, which was the
strongest of all earlier kingdoms and had all earthly kingdoms under its
dominion, and all nations of peoples lived under the Romans and paid
tribute to them. Therefore, the Apostle Paul says that Antichrist will
not come into the world unless the apostasy comes first, that is, unless
first all the kingdoms which long ago were subject to the Roman Empire
secede from it. This time, however, is not yet come, because, even
though we see that the Empire of the Romans is for the most part
destroyed, nevertheless, as long as the kings of the Franks, who possess
the Roman Empire by right, survive, the dignity of the Roman Empire
will not perish altogether, because it will endure in the French kings.
Some
of our teachers say that a King of the Franks (France) will possess
the entire Roman Empire. This King will be the greatest and last of
all monarchs, and after having prosperously governed his kingdom he
will come in the end to Jerusalem and he will lay down his sceptre
and his crown upon the
Mount of Olives. This will be the end and consummation of the Empire
of Rome and immediately afterwards Antichrist will come…”
(Source: Ludus De Antichristo. English and John Wright, The Play of Antichrist (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1967. Quoted at: https://hortulus-journal.com/imperium-et-credo-frankish-byzantine-rivalry-over-leadership-of-the-roman-christian-credo-state-in-the-ninth-century-by-elijah-wallace/#f83)
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(Source: Ludus De Antichristo. English and John Wright, The Play of Antichrist (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1967. Quoted at: https://hortulus-journal.com/imperium-et-credo-frankish-byzantine-rivalry-over-leadership-of-the-roman-christian-credo-state-in-the-ninth-century-by-elijah-wallace/#f83)
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Prophecy
of the Antichrist – the Second Coming Happenes AFTER his Evil Reign
(Source 'The Antichrist' by Yyves Dupont):
"Antichrist
will be born of Jewish parents, of the tribe of Dan, but his mother
will not be a virgin, as many believe. As the Holy Ghost came into
the heart of Mary, so will the devil enter into the mother of
Antichrist, and his diabolical power will always support him. Babylon
will be his birthplace, but he will be reared and instructed in
Bethsaida and Corozain. After his education at the hands of malignant
spirits he will go to Jerusalem and place his seat in the Temple
which he will have restored. He will submit to the rite of
circumcision, claiming that he is the Son of the Omnipotent God. His
first converts will be kings and princes. His influence will extend
from sea to sea, largely through force and persuasive eloquence. He
will perform many signs and great miracles. Those who believe in him
will be marked on the forehead with a sign. For three and a half
years he will hold sway and, at the end of that period, he will put
to death Henoch and Elias, who will have previously opposed him by
preaching the true faith. Shortly afterwards, Christ will appear,
(Second Coming) and Antichrist will be killed by Michael the
Archangel."
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