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<p>and <a href="page.php?w=Catholic_Church_in_Germany">German Catholic Church</a> in the century before the <a href="page.php?w=Protestant_Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>. </p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
<p>The Brethren of the Common Life, which did not strictly conform as an order or congregation, had become obnoxious to the <a href="page.php?w=mendicant_friars">mendicant friars</a> and the object of their attacks. To remedy this, their founder, <a href="page.php?w=Gerard_Groote">Gerard Groote</a>, advised on his deathbed in 1384 that some of the</p><p>
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