The Brethren of the Common Life (Latin: Fratres Vitae Communis, FVC) was a Roman Catholic pietist religious community founded in the Netherlands in the...
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Geert Groote (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
popular preacher and the founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. He was a key figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. He was born in the Hanseatic city...
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Johannes Busch (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
provost of a community of Canons Regular. He was associated with the Brethren of the Common Life. He was born in Zwolle. He spent most of the last 40...
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Thomas à Kempis (redirect from Thomas of Kempen)
and a follower of Geert Groote and Florens Radewyns, the founders of the Brethren of the Common Life. Thomas was born in Kempen in the Rhineland. His...
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Florens Radewyns (section Life)
Florentius Radwyn) (c. 1350 – 24 March 1400) was the co-founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. Floris was born at Leerdam, near Utrecht, about 1350...
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The Brethren of the Common Life (14th century), intentional communities dedicated to service These groups grew out of the Anabaptist movement at the time...
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Hieronymus Bosch (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
Brethren of the Free Spirit) as well as by obscure hermetic practices. Again, since Erasmus had been educated at one of the houses of the Brethren of...
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The Brethren of the Common Life, which did not strictly conform as an order or congregation, had become obnoxious to the mendicant friars and the object...
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Anabaptism (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
antecedents may include the Brethren of the Common Life, the Hussites, Dutch Sacramentists, and some forms of monasticism. The Waldensians also represent...
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Devotio Moderna (category History of Christianity in the Netherlands)
houses of communal living, eventually known as the Brethren of the Common Life, which numbered 41 by the early 16th century. The majority of members...
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