Beghards

It is an error to apply the name Beghards to them.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

The spirit of evangelical purity and simple-minded and benevolent zeal which so prominently characterised the movements of the twelfth century, continued to live, especially in Flanders and Germany, in societies known under various names, such as Beghards and Cellites, and the “Vineyard of the Lord.”

Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

In 1832, Pope Gregory XVI recalled how greatly the peace of both Church and society was disturbed by various rebellious sects, "the Waldensians, the Beghards, the Wycliffites, and other such sons of Belial, who were the sores and disgrace of the human race."

Separation of Church and State: Manifest Destiny or Manifest Heresy? 2007

The Beghards of Narbonne had been condemned two years before, and Berengar Talloni, though he was one of the judges, had appealed to the Pope.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

Central Europe among the semi-religious lay com - munities of the Beguines and Beghards, and propagated by individuals travelling from city to city, and claiming to be divine.

HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

The Beghards, or Weaving Brothers, took pattern by this busy guild of workers and followed the same rules of simple piety.

Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead

The same year saw the arrival of foreign sectarians, Beghards = = called Pickarts = = attracted by Bohemia's fame for religious liberty, and of the Oxford Wycliffite Peter Payne, admitted to the faculty of arts at the university.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

"Book of Truth" written to refute the errors and fanatic excesses of the Beghards and the Brethren of the Free Spirit.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Beghards, and against the libertine teachings of the Brethren of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

In the northern countries — Belgium, France, and Germany — the Beguines and Beghards (q. v.), established in the latter part of the twelfth century, included in their charitable work the care of the sick.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913