Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Persistent identifier:: 1460979038851

Title:: Beauties of continental architecture

Sub title:: in a series of views of ancient cathedrals and other remarkable public buildings, in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy

Artist/Illustrator:: Coney, John

Publisher:: M. A. Nattali

Place of publication:: London

Year of publication:: 1843

Language:: english; french

Structure type:: Monograph

Owning institution:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Physical location:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Shelfmark:: 1Kc 1099

License:: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.de

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Title:: The Beguinage, at Bruessels

Structure type:: Chapter

THE BEGUINAGE, AT BRUSSELS. The Beguines are young women living in a community, and bound by simple vows of chastity. They are called Beguines, from the name of their founder, Saint Begge, daughter of Pepin de Lander; but some writers affirm, that Lambert Begue, or Begghe, of Liege, gave his name to the institntion, because it was from the community founded by him at Liege, in 1173, that the young women came who, in 1207, went to settle at Nivelles, whence they spread over all Flanders, and into France and Germany. Their establishments, called Beguinages, contain several houses in one enclosure, with one or more churches, according to the number of Beguines. There is in each establishment a prioress, or mistress, without whose permission they cannot go out. They perform a noviciate of three years before they take the habit, and when they receive it, they take their vows to the clergyman of the parish in which the Beguinage is situated. The errors into which the Beguines of Germany fell, irritated the fathers at the Council of Vienna, to such a degree, in 1313, that they abolished their order as suspected; but as they permitted females, married or unmarried, who were really pious, to live in penance and chastity, with or without vows, the decree was not applied to Flanders, where the Beguines gave no ground for suspicion. There is scarcely a city in the Low Countries, which has not a Beguinage. The great Beguinage of Brussels resembles a little town. It is surrounded with walls, has some handsome streets, where each Beguine has her separate dwelling, and retains her own property. Their number has amounted to seven or eight hun dred, and sometimes more. They take, as we have said, a vow of chastity, but only for the time that they shall remain in the Beguinage, and on leaving it are allowed to marry. The building of their church was begun in 1657. It is dedi cated to St. John the Baptist, and deserves to be seen on account of the richness of the architecture.

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