Let’s Begin with the Beguines...
Marcella Pattyn died on April 14th, 2013, and with her died a religious way of life that had survived for more than 800 years. Her enclosed community of sisters was not a convent — but a “beguinage.”
This section is about “non-conventional” monastic living.
The last of the Beguines (from an article in the Economist — click to read it)
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
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