Eclipse
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'It
is also written that the sun will grow dark before the world ends
and the moon will darken and the stars fall because of the people's
sins,...' Wulfstan, Homily III-Secundum Lucam. Cited from the
translation of Joyce Lionarons on her site
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Burning
heaven |
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'The
impious one [Antichrist]
will cause fire to come from above, as it were from heaven, in sight
of men, as if he were God Almighty, who rules over heaven and earth;'
in Ælfric's Preface
to the Catholic Homilies I |
Fire |
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'Our
Lord has fixed the time when he will come here, on that greatest day,
as highest king of power; then the ruler of mankind will burn the
land with fire.' in Judgement
Day I |
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Signs |
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'"There
will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars, etc."' Wulfstan,
Homily III-Secundum Lucam. Cited from the translation of Joyce
Lionarons on her site
Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies |
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Storm,
wind |
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'Across
the broad earth the heavenly trumpet's loud voice will be heard and
on seven sides the winds will howl; they will blow, blustering, with
the mightiest uproar, and enfeeble and reduce the world by storm and
fill with fear earth's creatures.' Christ
III / 'Heaven strives against us when it sternly sends us
storms that greatly injure cattle and land.' Wulfstan, Homily III-Secundum
Lucam. Cited from the translation of Joyce Lionarons on her site
Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies 'And there were voices, and
thunders, and lightnings;' Revelation
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Bloody
Rain |
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'The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled
with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: ' Revelation
8:7 / 'And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers
and fountains of waters; and they became blood.' Revelation
16:4 |
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Birds |
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'On
the "fifth" day, all the birds of the air will gather together
in the fields, wailing to one another, with neither bite nor sup;'
St. Jerome's fifteen signs preceding the judgement in Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica |
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Flood |
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'The
sea will rise in flood over the world, life will be over for every
single person.' Judgement
Day I |
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Cattle |
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'Heaven
strives against us when it sternly sends us storms that greatly injure
cattle and land.' Wulfstan, Homily III-Secundum Lucam. Cited
from the translation of Joyce Lionarons on her site
Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies |
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Fruit
and Corn |
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'The
earth strives against us when it withholds earthly fruits and sends
us too many weeds.' Cited from the translation of Joyce Lionarons
on her site
Wulfstan's Eschatological Homilies / ' And I beheld, and lo a
black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his
hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure
of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and
see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.' Revelation
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Earthquake |
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'And
great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;
' Luke
21:11 / '... and there was a great earthquake, such as was
not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so
great.' Revelation
16:18 |
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Plague |
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'And
great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;
' Luke
21:11 / '...and we from day to day hear of monstrous plagues
and strange deaths throughout the country...; so we are also informed
of various diseases in many places of the world' Blickling
Homily X |
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Famine |
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'And
great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;
' Luke
21:11 / '...so we are also informed of various diseases in
many places of the world, and of increasing famines.' Blickling
Homily X / 'And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his
name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power
was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with
sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the
earth.' Revelation
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