beatus
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beatus (plural beati)
(religion) A person who has been beatified.
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A long time ago, the Beatus caves were home to a vicious dragon.
In the late 8th century, a controversy arose between Bishop Elipandus of Toledo and Beatus of Liébana over the former's teaching (which has been called Spanish Adoptionism ) that Christ in his humanity was the adoptive son of God.
He is listed in the Roman Martyrology Roman Martyrology—a work which includes all Saints and Blesseds recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as Beatus Ioannes Faesulanus, cognomento Angelicus—"Blessed Giovanni of Fiesole, known as 'the Angelic' ".
…was the commentary on the book of Revelation of Beatus of Liebana, a text that seems to have been taken by contemporaries as a symbol of Christian resistance to the Muslim Arabs who dominated much of the Iberian Peninsula in the early Middle Ages.
The most prominent Christian scholar in the Kingdom of Asturias of this period was Beatus of Liébana, whose works left an indelible mark in the Christian culture of the Reconquista.