Abbo of Fleury on a thousand-year sermon and a rumoured end

Concerning the end of the world, too, I heard as a young man a sermon preached before the people in the church of Paris, that as soon as the number of a thousand years was completed Antichrist would come, and not long afterwards the universal judgment would follow. I opposed that preaching with what strength I could, from the Gospels, the Apocalypse and the book of Daniel. Then, too, my abbot of blessed memory, Richard, with a shrewd mind drove back the error about the end of the world that had grown up, after he received letters from the Lotharingians, to which he ordered me to reply; for a rumour had filled almost the whole world that when the Lord’s Annunciation fell on Good Friday, the end of the age would come without any doubt.