And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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Bede
AD 735
moon: The Church, more than is wont, will shed her blood for Christ. And he said "the whole," because the last earthquake will be in the whole world. But before that, as it is written, "there will be earthquakes through divers places." <a