guillelmite

Example Sentences

• "Three Companies of Citizens attend the Saint’s triumphal Car. The Children of St. Francis, with the Croſs, in the Habits of religious Warfare, and covered with their Cowls, march at the Head of the Proceſſion; then come the Guilelmites, the Singers, the Canons and Canoneſſes of St. Gertrude: […]"
• "The notice of Sir John Mandeville given by Bishop Bale in his Catalogue of British Writers, first published in 1548, is chiefly based on his own account of himself, but it ends with the matter-of-fact statement that he died at Liége on 17 Nov. 1372, and was buried there in the church of the Guillelmites, or Guillemins."
• "The Rule of St Augustine had been adopted not only by the canons regular, but also by small eremitical communities such as the Guillelmites, founded before 1157 by St William of Maleval; […]"
• "Monastic orders such as the Guillelmites had special chants for their patron, Guillelmus de Malavalle."
• "Alarmed by these doings, the tribunal of the Inquisition pronounced anathema against the heresy of the Guillelmites and condemned them to the penalties of death, excommunication and the confiscation of their property."
• "The introduction of a female element into the deity, and a belief in an imminent new divine revelation, formed the core of the Guillelmites’ faith."