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FLORENS RADEWYNS

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Co-founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, b. at Leyderdam, near Utrecht,
about 1350; d. at Deventer, 25 March, 1400. He passed a brilliant university
course, took his M.A. degree at Prague. Returning home, he was installed canon
of St. Peter's, Utrecht. For some little time he led a gay life, until converted
by a sermon of Gerard Groote. Thereupon he resigned his canonry, placed himself
unreservedly under Groote's direction, at his instance was ordained a priest,
and accepted a poor benefice at Deventer, where Groote resided. There he
powerfully seconded his friend's apostolate, especially among the poor clerical
scholars of Deventer, and it was at his suggestion and in his house that the
first community of the Brethren of the Common Life was formed. It was also from
his house that the six brethren who established the Congregation of Windesheim
went forth in 1386, and among them John, the elder brother of Thomas à Kempis.
Thomas himself was under the immediate care and guidance of Radewyns from his
thirteenth to his twenty-first year. He wrote a loving and edifying sketch of
his master, wherein he describes Florens as a man learned in the Scriptures and
all sacred science, exceedingly devout, humble, simple, zealous, charitable, and
excessively mortified. His austerities enfeebled his health, possibly hastened
his end. He was commonly regarded among the brethren as a saint. His skull, with
that of Groote, is still preserved in the Catholic church (Broedern Kerk) of
Deventer. Of his correspondence we have only one letter, preserved by us by à
Kempis, who also gives us a collection of his notable sayings.


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APA citation. Scully, V. (1911). Florens Radewyns. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12631b.htm

MLA citation. Scully, Vincent. "Florens Radewyns." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12631b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J.
Murray.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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