Thomas à Kempis, CRV (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471; German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the late...
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1676), composer Joannes Florentius a Kempis (1635 – c.1711), Baroque composer, son of Nicholaus à Kempis Thomas à Kempis (c.1380 – 1471), late Medieval Catholic...
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The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, is a Christian devotional book first composed in Medieval Latin as De Imitatione Christi (c. 1418–1427)....
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Thomas Kempis Bull (July 23, 1810 – March 28, 1893) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
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Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher...
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Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/ ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and...
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evolved into the at sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a surname: Thomas à Kempis, Mary Anne à Beckett. À is used in Emilian to represent short stressed...
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of Hippo. Among medieval teachers he cites Isaac of Stella, Thomas Kempis, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Modern authors cited by the Pope include John Henry...
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Thomas Cajetan, OP (/ˈkædʒətən/; 20 February 1469 – 9 August 1534), also known as Gaetanus, commonly Tommaso de Vio or Thomas de Vio, was an Italian philosopher...
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Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social...
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Adolph Kempis (4 August 1865 – 19 May 1890) was a South African cricketer who played in South Africa's inaugural Test match in March 1889. Kempis was born...
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Publishing Co., United States and Canada (1940) The Following of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, (J. M. Lelen, Editor) Catholic Book Publishing, New York (1941) Key...
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species was described in 1919 by George Albert Boulenger as Nectophryne kempi. Thomas Barbour placed it in Pedostibes instead. In 2016, Chandramouli and Amarasinghe...
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2010 Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (via Oxford Reference) à Kempis, Thomas. "Book 1 Chapter 3". Imitation of Christ: translated from Latin into...
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Newfoundland off North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real. First printing of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) probably concludes...
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Gouda, Leiden, Delft, Zutphen and elsewhere, was immense; according to Thomas à Kempis the people left their business and their meals to hear his sermons...
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justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471), German-Dutch Catholic canon regular and author Thomas Keneally (born 1935), Australian novelist...
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Charite 1425 Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi – Zafar Nama (history of Timur) 1427 Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ (De Imitatione Christi) (approximate date...
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Ruysbroeck, Florence Radewyns, Henry of Kalkar, Gerard of Zutphen, Thomas à Kempis, John a Kempis and Johann Vos of Huesden. When Radewyns founded a monastery...
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was reprinted anonymously at Leuven in 1448, and later epitomised by Thomas à Kempis at Cologne in his Vita Lidewigis. The second life appeared at Schiedam...
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probably in Ghent. unknown dates The first English translation of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ is published . An edition of Euripides' Tragoediae...
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based on the much longer 15th-century Catholic devotional book by Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, but reoriented for the purposes of the developing...
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both Latin and Portuguese and to have read and become fascinated with Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ. In 1595, Tadaoki's life was in danger because...
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L. P. Harvey, Kempis' influence is "established beyond doubt", and could not have been due to chance. The Young Man did not cite Kempis as sources for...
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compositional method was a complex one as she reworked the third book of Thomas à Kempis's Imitatio Christi to produce a monologue spoken by a generic Christian...
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the centuries, of which the best known is the Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, one of the most widely read Christian spiritual books in existence...
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Jesus who was poor at birth in the manger and died naked on the cross. Thomas à Kempis, on the other hand, presented a path to The Imitation of Christ based...
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Protestant Reformation. It is most known today through its influence on Thomas à Kempis, the author of The Imitation of Christ, a book which has proved highly...
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1400), by Julian of Norwich The Imitation of Christ (ca. 1423), by Thomas à Kempis The Interior Castle (1577), by Teresa of Avila Ascent of Mount Carmel...
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monastic practice of spiritual reading. Like The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, it is considered a spiritual classic in the Christian tradition. The...
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