Difference between revisions of "Groot. Geert"

Groot. Geert <ref name="term_42454" />  

<p> (Lat. Gerhardus Magnus), was born at Deventer in 1340, studied in Paris, and subsequently taught philosophy and theology in Cologne. Being possessed of a considerable property and of several prebends, he abandoned himself to a luxurious life, from which he was recalled by a serious sickness and the impressive exhortations of a friend, the Carthusian [[Henry]] Aeger. Thoroughly reformed, he entered the monastery of Monkhuysen, near Antwerp; but he left it again after three years, in order to become a travelling preacher. In union with [[Florence]] Radwyn, he established at Deventer the [[Society]] of the [[Brethren]] of Common Life, which was sanctioned in 1376 by [[Gregory]] XI. He died at Deventer of the plague, August 20, 1384. He wrote De Veridica Predicatione Evangelii : — De Sacris Libris Studendis (both in Kem-pis, Opera, t. iii). Thirty-three treatises of his remain in MS. See Ullmann, [[Reformers]] before the Reformation, vol. i; Bohringer, Kirche Christ;, vol. iti pt. iii, p. 612-644; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Groot. </p> <p> (See [[Brethren Of The Common Life]]) </p>

==References ==