Pub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190903374.003.0010
R. Collis, Natalie Bayer
The conclusion to this book emphasises the important legacy of the Avignon Society in terms of its role in disseminating millenarian doctrine, in particular, throughout Europe for nearly half a century, between 1779 and 1822. It shows the lasting impact of the society by highlighting the remarkable impact of Madame Bouche on Emperor Alexander at a crucial moment in the history of Russia and Europe as a whole. At the same time, the conclusion also reminds the reader about the hostility shown towards the society by government authorities in Russia, the papal territories, and in revolutionary France. This opposition was based on disdain for heretical strands of religious enthusiasm, as well as a fear of the millenarian dynamic of the society, which was often viewed as undermining the pillars of authority. This anxiety about the revolutionary dynamic of the Avignon Society was exacerbated by a profound confusion about the supposed radical agenda of the group, which was often conflated with the atheistic doctrine of the Bavarian Illuminati.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190903374.003.0005
R. Collis, Natalie Bayer
Chapter 4 focuses on the important, but highly controversial contribution to the religious and associational dynamic of the society of Ottavio Cappelli, who fashioned himself as a prophet able to communicate with the archangels Gabriel and Raphael. It places a particular emphasis on a crucial period between the end of 1789 and November 1791, a two-year time frame that takes in Cappelli’s apogee in Rome in early 1790, when he was feted by all within the society as a true prophet. The chapter analyses Cappelli’s contentious attempts in 1790 to reconfigure the Avignon Society as a more conventional Roman Catholic sect, which began to sow seeds of discord among Protestant initiates. It also examines the impact of his arrest by the papal authorities, in September 1790, on not only his personal fate, but also on the fortunes of the society as a whole. His fall, which was confirmed by a seven-year prison sentence in November 1791, played a key role in causing a schism in the Avignon Society that almost tore the group asunder.
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