St. Abbo, Abbot of Fleury

• ABOUT:
  • From the Columbia Encyclopedia:
  • 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
  • Abbonis Floriacensis Opera. Just a list. --- Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum

  • Elizabeth Dachowski: Life of Abbo of Fleury. --- Old English Online Editions
  • Patrizia Lendinara: Life and Works of Abbo of Fleury. From the handbook Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. --- Western Michigan University

• PLACES:
  • Fleury

• WORKS:
  • Apologeticus ad Hugonem & Rodbertum, Reges Francorum:
    • 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

  • The Passion of St. Edmund:
    • Passio Sancti Edmundi: Probably the best online edition, with original Latin, as well as modern English, Old English, and Anglo-Norman translations. The modern English translations are by Lord Hervey (from Latin, 1907), Grant (from Anglo-Norman, 1978), and Skeat (from Anglo-Saxon, date not included, but it comes from the Early English Text Society edition). --- Old English Online Editions
    • The Martyrdom of St. Edmund, King of East Anglia: Cutler translation, 1998. --- MSBP
    • Aelfric: Life of St. Edmund: Actually a modern English translation of Aelfric's Old English translation of St. Abbo's Latin life. --- Univ. of Virginia

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