Feastday 4th
February
Born about 776
Died 856
He
grew up in the abbey of Fulda. Disciple of Saint Alcuin of Tours and Saint
Eigil. Benedictine monk. Headmaster of the abbey school. Deacon. Priest. Abbot.
Bishop of Mainz. Noted for his charity, feeding up to 300 poor at his house
each day. Promoted the education of the clergy. Wrote bible commentaries,
homilies, poetry, including one that praised and preserved the memory of Saint
Frederick of Utrecht. 1
1. Taken from the Patron
Saints Index at http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintr12.htm
“Our
principal doctors agree in announcing to us that towards the end of time one of
the descendants of the kings of France shall reign over all the Roman Empire;
and that he shall be the greatest of the Empire; and that he shall be the greatest
of the French monarchs, and the last of his race. After he has governed his kingdom he will go to Jerusalem, and
lay down his Sceptre and Crown on Mount Olivet. Thus shall come the end of the Christian Roman Empire…” 1
“Antichrist will heal the sick, raise the dead, restore sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, raises storms and calms them, re-names mountains, make trees blossom and wither at a word, re-build the temple of Jerusalem and make Jerusalem the capital city of the world with the vast wealth of hidden treasures…” 2
1. Colvenerius’s 1647 Latin Edition of Maurus’s
writings as quoted by Desmond
A. Birch Trial Tribulation and Triumph: Before, During and After Antichrist,
(Queenship Publishing. 1996) p 250
2. Yves Dupont Antichrist World Trends
Magazine, September, 1975