Brethren of the Common Life
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The Brethren of the Common Life was a Roman Catholic pietist religious community founded in the Netherlands in the 14th century by Gerard Groote, formerly a successful and worldly educator who had had
Entrance of the Waghäusel monastery
Devotio Moderna
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Devotio Moderna was a movement for religious reform that called for apostolic renewal through the rediscovery of genuine pious practices such as humility, obedience, simplicity of life, and integratio
Brethren of the Common Life
…formal vows initially, but were successfully defended by Pierre d'Ailly and Jean Gerson. The Brethren's confraternity is the best known fruits of the "Devotio Moderna", (the Modern Devotion), a lifestyle and undogmatic form of piety which some historians have argued helped to pave the road for the Protestant Reformation…
Modern photo of Windesheim
The beginning of the Book of the Hours of Geert Groote
Vita Christi (Life of Christ) by Ludolph of Saxony, Vol. 1, folio.