Thomas Conecte French

France

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 Carmelite

Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, hence its name. However, historical records about its origin remain uncertain...

 monk

Monk

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 and preacher

Preacher

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, was born at Rennes

Rennes

Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

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He travelled through Cambrai

Cambrai

Cambrai is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Cambrai is the seat of an archdiocese whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages. The territory of the Bishopric of Cambrai, roughly coinciding with the shire of Brabant, included...

, Tournai

Tournai

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, Arras

Arras

Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...

, Flanders

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, and Picardy

Picardy

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, his sermon

Sermon

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s vehemently denouncing the vices of the clergy and the extravagant dress of the women, especially their lofty head-dresses, or hennin

Hennin

The hennin was a headdress in the shape of a cone or "steeple", or truncated cone worn in the late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. They were most common in Burgundy and France, but also elsewhere, especially at the English courts, and in Northern Europe, Hungary and Poland. They...

s. He ventured to teach that he who is a true servant of God

God

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 need fear no papal curse, that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is corrupt, and that marriage

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 is permissible to the clergy, of whom only some have the gift of continence. Having inveighed against the disedifying life of certain priests, he had to seek safety in flight and left France for Italy

Italy

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. He was listened to by immense congregations, and in Italy, despite the opposition of Nicholas Kenton (d. 1468), provincial of the English Carmelites, he introduced several changes into the rules of that order. He introduced a strict observance in the convent near Florence

Florence

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, which gradually developed into the Congregation of Mantua. He visited this latter convent in 1432 and then proceeded to Venice

Venice

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, and finally to Rome

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, where the manners of the Curia

Curia

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 provoked anew his violent language and occasioned a charge of conspiracy against the pope. He was finally apprehended by order of Pope Eugene IV

Pope Eugene IV

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, condemned and burnt for heresy

Heresy

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An account of Friar Thomas's preaching and its effect is given by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

Enguerrand de Monstrelet

Enguerrand de Monstrelet , French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Picardy.In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the gavenier at Cambrai, and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence...

, provost

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 of Cambrai (d. 1453), in his continuation of Froissart's chronicles.