St. Abbo, Abbot of Fleury

• ABOUT:
  • From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
  • Catholic Patron Saints Index:
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia Entry: (Read with caution)
  • Chris Plicht: Abbo de Fleury. Very short. --- Chris Plicht

  • Aimoin of Fleury: Vita Sancti Abbonis, PL 139:387 [Migne] Life and miracles

• PLACES:
  • Fleury

• WORKS:
  • 15 Epistolæ, PL 139:419 [Migne]
  • Apologeticus ad Hugonem et Rodbertum Reges Francorum, PL 139:461 [Migne]
    • English translation of short excerpt about the Year 1000. Famous passage describing how Abbo as a young man refuted a preacher at the cathedral of Paris who taught that the world would end soon after the year 1000. McGinn translation. --- Apocalyptic Theories
  • 52 Canons, PL 139:473 [Migne]
  • Vita Sancti Eadmundi, Regis Anglorum et Martyris, PL 139:507 [Migne]
    • The Martyrdom of St. Edmund, King of East Anglia: Cutler's translation of the (much-abridged) Anglo-Saxon version, 1998. --- MSBP
  • Carmen Acrostichum ad Ottonem Imperatorem, PL 139:519 [Migne] Poem with hidden message.
  • Quæstiones Grammaticales, PL 139:521 [Migne] Comments on the Latin of various classical authors.
  • Epitome de XCI Romanorum Pontificum Vitis, PL 139:535 [Migne] Short lives of popes.
  • Commentarium in Cyclum Victorii, PL 139:569 [Migne] Commentary on the chronology and Easter-computation method proposed by Victorius of Aquitaine.

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