Florens Radewyns
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Dutch priest and scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Floris Radewyns was the co-founder of the Brethren of the Common Life. Life Floris was born at Leerdam, near Utrecht, about 1350. He passed a brilliant university course and took his M.A. degree at Prague. Returning home, he was installed canon of St. Peter's, Utrecht. For some little time he led a life of pleasure, until converted by a sermon of Gerard Groote.