Woman's Work in the Church: Historical Notes On Deaconesses And Sisterhoods
Woman's Work in the Church: Historical Notes On Deaconesses And Sisterhoods
Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes, 1821-1911
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But in 1134, by the advice of St Bernard, they are said to have left their wives, and to have founded their first monastery at Brera. The order was fihally suppressed by Pius V. in 1570. We have here all the leading features of B^guine- ism, — industrious and charitable fraternities, without celibacy ; springing up, moreover, precisely in those busy, populous, warlike, independent cities of Lom- bardy, the very centres of civilisation in Southern Europe, as the Flemish cities in Northern, CHAPT...ER IIL THE SISTERHOODS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. § I. Early Romish Charitable Fellowships — Mendi- cants and their Tertiarians, ^TpHERE has now to be told the struggle of Romish monachism with the B^guine move- ment ; how it overcame it, how it appropriated to itself the idea of charitable fellowship, and did it so completely that to this day we Protestants can hardly imagine of a religious fellowship that shall not be Romish. To the end of the eleventh century, it would seem, we must ascribe the first, strictly speaking, charitable monastic foundation of the Romish Church, that of the Augustinian Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, fellowships both of men and women, established to provide for the neces- The Romish Sisterhoods.
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