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 og^ GERMANY. cepting the Bishop of Metz himself. The Beguines who had hiled her as a saintly sister were excessively mortified when ^ accident revealed the imposture ; the people were so enraged that some wanted to burn her and others to bury her ahve, but the bishop shut her up in a convent, injpace, where, naturaUy enough, ' "^ThrChurch was not long in recognizing the danger inherent in these practices when withdrawn from close supervision On the one hand there was simulated piety, hke that of «ibylla ° M-^ sal on the other the far more serious opportunity of indulgence in unlawful speculation. In 1250 and the following years the Beguines of Cologne repeatedly sought the protection of papal legates against the oppression of both clergy and laity Already in 1259, a council of Mainz strongly reproved the pestiferous sect of Beghards and Begutta, (Beguines), who wandered through the streets crying ^^ Broth durch Gottr preaching ^^. ''^^'«^«J^^^ other secret places, and given to various Pr-^^-^^^disapproved by the Church. All priests were ordered to warn them to abandon these customs, and to expel from their parishes those ^^o were obstinate. In 1267 the Council of Troves forbade their preaching in the streets on account of the heresies which they disseminated^ In 1287 a council of Liege deprived aU who did not live m he Be^uinages of the right to wear the pecuUar habit and enjoy the privileges of Beguines. In Suabia, about the same period, some Lmbers of communities of Beghards and Beguines sought to persuade the rest that they could better serve God "in freedom o ?pTrit " when the bishops proceeded to abolish all such associa- LSand some of them aLd to adopt the rule of St. Augustm^t All this points to the adoption, by the followers of Ortheb who caUed themselves Brethren of the Free Spirit of the hafc and appellation of the Beghards and Beguines, and the gradual invasion among the Mtei^oTthedoct^^ from Amaury. • Chron Senonens. Lib. rv. c. 18 (D'Achery II. 634-6). ., «, • Th ; !f " Bro, aurcK GoU " was already of old «sage. " w- U.e fi^' German speech acquired by the Franciscans sent to Germany rn 1221, by St. Francis.-Frat. Jordan! Chron. c. 27 (AnalecteFranciscana I. 10) t Haupt, Zeitschrift filr Kirchengeschichte, 1885, p. f ^p 'if yri" i) - IV. 577.--Concxl. Trevirens. ann. 1257 c. 66 (Martene Ampl. Coll. U. U^ 5). Mosheim p. 199.