Event: Dreaming/seeing vision/revelationAnonymous 276.vision of angels and evil spirits
Scholarly Info
Description |
Anonymous 276 saw two handsome youths in a vision. One of them drew out a very small book which contained Anonymous 276's good deeds. Then, there appeared an army of evil spirits. They took a volume of enormous size where he found all his sins written down. Then two evil spirits struck him with their daggers. |
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Notes:
Bede 1 says that this vision was for the sake of others.
Persons associated with this Event:
- Recipient:
Anonymous 276
(Mercian layman) : Not long after this vision, he died.
- Witness:
Cenred 2
(King of the Mercians, 704-c. 709) : Anonymous 276 told him about the vision.
- Witness:
Pehthelm 1
(First bishop of Whithorn, c.731-735) : Bede 1 heard this story from him.