Agapemone

Agapemone

Agapemone, or "The A" was a Christian religious group and community founded in 1846 by Reverend Henry Prince in Spaxton, Somerset, England. [cite web |url=http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/quantocks/villages/spaxton/spaxton1.html |title=Spaxton |accessdate=2007-12-04 |format= |work=Quantock Online ] He had been fired earlier in his career for his 'radical teachings'. The Agapemonies predicated the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Prince's successor, John Hugh Smyth-Pigott, declared himself Jesus Christ reincarnate.

The Agapemone (German for Abode of Love) community consisted mostly of wealthy, unmarried women. Both Prince and Smyth-Pigott took many spiritual brides. Later investigations show that these "brides" were not only spiritual but physical also, and some produced illegitimate children.cite book |title=Portrait of the Quantocks |last=Waite |first=Vincent |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1964 |publisher=Robert Hale |location=London |isbn=0709111584 |pages= ]

In 1860, Prince lost a lawsuit to two disgruntled followers, and the group vanished from the public eye. Around 1890, Smyth-Pigott started giving meetings in the community again, but soon the group faded completely.

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External links

* [http://www.apologeticsindex.org/453-agapemone ApologeticsIndex on Agapemone]


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