Ernest Hello
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Ernest Hello was a French Roman Catholic writer, who produced books and articles on philosophy, theology, and literature.
Hello, 1898 painting
John of Ruusbroec
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John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec, sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries. Some of his main literary
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…tinged his prose with a melancholy strain, which is strikingly original as mentioned in J.-K. Huysmans' work (they shared a veneration of the mystic John of Ruysbroeck). Both writers, like Leon Bloy, are almost impossible to translate. In 1857 he married Zoë Berthier, an army officer's daughter and talented writer…
The blessed John van Ruysbroeck
John of Ruysbroek by Antony van der Does
Excerpt from "A Mirror of Eternal Blessedness" of the manuscript "Werken". Composed in Bergen-op-Zoom in 1480. Kept at University Library of Ghent.