The lay religious movement known as the Beguines had largely been forgotten until the late 20th century, when feminist scholars rediscovered their lives. Swan (Sacred Rhythms) brings their lives and ...

The historian Barbara Tuchman called the “calamitous” 14th century a “distant mirror” of our own times. Its predecessor, the 13th century, seems not to offer the same possibility for contemporary ...

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I recently spent ten days in Belgium and the Netherlands, visiting Amsterdam, Antwerp, Louvain (Leuven) and Bruges. My purpose for being there was an academic conference in Louvain. Each of the cities ...

Women's ministerial vocations have differed throughout the centuries, but they have existed in every era and in every locale. Benedictine Sr. Laura Swan, former prioress of St. Placid Priory in the ...

Their eyes were watching God, but their hands and minds showed a keen instinct for survival in the material world. This, says author Laura Swan, was the wisdom of the beguines: women who defied the ...

THE death of Marcella Pattyn, on April 14th, passed quietly. But with her died a religious way of life that had survived for more than 800 years. She dedicated her life to God, wearing black robes and ...

Les béguines, ces femmes qui consacraient leur vie à Dieu sans pour autant se retirer du monde, fondèrent au XIIIe siècle des béguinages, ensembles clos répondant à leurs besoins spirituels et ...