Jean De Ruysbroeck
John and Jan van Ruisbroek Ruusbroec (or Ruysbroeck) is a cleric Brabant born in 1293 in the village of Ruisbroek ( Duchy of Brabant ) near Brussels and died in 1381 at Groenendael , also located in Brabant.
Sometimes regarded as a disciple of Meister Eckhart Biography Jan van Ruusbroec will look to Brussels at the age of eleven years with his uncle, Jan Hinckaert, it is then a canon of the collegiate St. Gudula. He received an instruction relatively modest. We can then distinguish two rounds in his life: first in Brussels until 1343, it is secular cleric (priest), then Groenendael (the "green valley") until his death in 1381, he became clerk Regular (monk). He was ordained priest at the age of twenty-four years and became chaplain of St Gudula. It will remain a simple priest in Brussels until the age of fifty. He began writing a balanced mystical work, which rejects, unlike some mystical currents of the time, neither works nor the mediation of the Church (Sacraments and Liturgy). At the age of fifty, in 1343, Jan van Ruusbroec changes his life and founded the priory of Groenendaal , in Zoninwoud. This community is no specific rule first, then will follow that of the Augustinian Canons. Jan van Ruusbroec is the central figure, however, without being the leader. There he continued his work, including the latest, The Twelve Beguine is one of the best known. His fame is great during his lifetime, not only in Flanders but in all neighboring countries. He died at eighty-nine years - ages exceptional for its time - in its community Groenendael , December 2, 1381. He was beatified in 1908 by papal decree. Jan van Ruusbroec is the author of a work written in Middle Dutch comprising eleven mystical treatises and many letters. His most famous work is the ornament of spiritual marriage, dating from his time in Brussels. This work was suspected of pantheism - therefore heresy - including the chancellor of the University of Paris Jean de Gerson , and later by Bossuet. His books (The Wedding spiritual, the Seven fences, the Book of the highest truth and many others) written in Flemish, were translated and many continue to be read. The Belgian poet and writer Maurice Maeterlinck helped to rediscover the great Flemish mystic, particularly in his article "Ruysbroek the admirable" in the Revue Gnrale in Brussels in 1889, then in 1891 in his translation of The Ornament of the spiritual marriage. The writer Joris-Karl Huysmans quote as an epigraph to his major work A Rebours "I must rejoice over time ... While the world has a horror of my joy, and his rudeness does not know what I mean. " Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang (ed.), "John Ruysbrock" in Universal Dictionary of History and Geography, 1878 [ detail editions ] ( Wikisource ) Training
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