Events taking place in Hispania (Islamic rule, the adoptionist heresy, the gradual assimilation of the Mozarabs) were, for Beatus, signals of the imminent apocalyptic aeon.
Begivenhederne i Hispania (islamisk herredømme, det adoptionistiske kætteri, den gradvise assimilation af de mozarabiske folk...) var for Beatus signaler om den snarligt tilstundende, apokalyptiske tidsalder.