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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Paul Baronowsky"><span name="Mark Brooks"><span name="Pat Barrett"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Paul Baronowsky"><span name="Mark Brooks"><span name="Pat Barrett"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Luc Vanbrabant">Luc Vanbrabant</span> <span><<a href="mailto:lucv32@gmail.com">lucv32@gmail.com</a>></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Events" 2013.04.19 (02) [EN]</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Jonny Meibohm"><span name="Roger Thijs"><span name="Mark and Ruth Dreyer"><span name="Paul Baronowsky"><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">History?<br><br>Beste Laaglanders,<br></font><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(English below)<br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Van de week is in de Lage Landen een einde gekomen aan een ongeveer duizendjarig stuk geschiedenis: In Kortrijk stierf het allerlaatste begijntje van de wereld: <span dir="ltr">Juffrouw Marcella Pattyn,92 jaar. </span>Hier is duidelijk een tijdperk afgesloten. Hadden de begijntjes de laatste eeuwen een wat ouderwets imago,dan was de beginperiode toch anders. Het was voor vrouwen de enige manier om individueel te leven. In die tijd moest een vrouw trouwen of in het klooster gaan. Een begijn leefde afzonderlijk in haar eigen huis, in een afgeschermde omgeving. 's Avonds gingen de deuren dicht. Als ze wilden konden ze altijd vertrekken. Ze moesten alleen beloven kuis te leven. De Rooms-katholieke kerk vond het maar niks en wilde het zelfs verbieden als ketters. Toch bleef het honderden jaren bestaan, tot nu... Het laatste grote begijnhof (een echt dorp) werd gebouwd in Gent in de 19de eeuw. Nu heeft Gent nog 3 begijnhoven om te bezoeken.<br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Onze bekendst begijn was waarschijnlijk Hadewijch. Voor meer geschiedenis: zie Wikipedia.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Het laatste begijntje lag van de week opgebaard in de kapel van haar begijnhof te Kortrijk.Ik denk dat het vandaag haar begrafenis is.<br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PS: mannelijke begijnen heten begarden. Die zijn allang verdwenen.<br>De begijnhoven zijn in onze steden de mooiste plaatsen om te bezoeken!<br>
<br><span lang="en"><span>This</span><span> week</span> <span>came to an end</span> </span><span lang="en"><span>a</span> <span>millennial</span> <span>piece of history </span></span><span lang="en"><span>in the Low Countries</span><span></span><span></span><span>:</span> <span>In Kortrijk</span> <span>died</span> <span>the last</span> <span>beguine</span> <span>of the world</span><span>:</span> <span>Miss</span> <span>Marcella</span> <span>Pattyn</span><span>,</span> <span>92 years</span><span>.</span> <span></span><span>An era</span> <span>has</span></span><span lang="en"><span> clearly</span></span><span lang="en"><span> ended</span><span>.</span> <span>Had the</span> <span>Beguines</span> <span>in the last centuries</span> <span>a</span>n<span> old-fashioned</span> <span>image,</span> <span> the</span> <span>beginning was</span> <span>different.</span> <span>It was</span> <span>the</span> <span>only way</span> <span>for</span> <span>women</span> <span>to live their live individually</span><span>.</span> <span>At that time</span> <span>a woman had to</span> <span>marry or</span> <span>go into</span> a<span> monastery.</span> <span>A</span> <span>Beguine</span> <span>lived</span> <span>alone</span> <span>in her own house</span><span>,</span> <span>in</span> <span>a protected environment</span><span>.</span> <span>In the evening</span> <span>the doors</span> <span>closed.</span> <span>If they wanted to,</span> <span>they could</span> <span>always</span> <span>leave.</span> <span>They </span> <span>only </span></span><span lang="en"><span>had </span></span><span lang="en"><span>to promise</span> <span>to live</span> <span>chaste.</span> <span>The Roman Catholic</span> <span>Church</span> <span>did not like it</span> <span>and </span></span><span lang="en"><span>even </span></span><span lang="en"><span>wanted to</span> <span>ban</span> <span>them </span> <span>as heretics</span><span>.</span> <span>Still they lived </span></span><span lang="en"><span> like that</span><span></span><span> </span></span><span lang="en"><span>for</span> <span>centuries</span> <span>...</span> The last big beguinage (a real village) was build in Gent in the 19th century (Gent has 3 beguinages to visit.)</span></font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><span lang="en"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Our</span> <span>best known</span> </font></span><span lang="en"><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">beguine </font></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en"><span>was probably</span> <span>'Hadewijch'</span><span>.</span> <span>For more</span> <span>history</span><span>, see</span> <span>Wikipedia</span><span>.</span><br>
<span>The last</span> <span>week</span> <span>Marcella</span><span></span> <span>was</span> <span>laid out in</span> <span>the chapel of</span> <span>her</span> <span>begijnhof</span> in <span>Kortrijk. I</span> <span>think</span> <span>her funeral</span> <span>is</span> <span>today</span><span>.</span><br>
<br><span>PS</span><span>:</span> <span>male</span> '<span>begijnen'</span> <span>called</span> <span>'begarden'</span><span>.</span> <span>Those</span> <span>are long gone</span><span>.</span></span><br>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en"><span>The</span> <span>beguinages</span> <span>in</span> <span>our cities</span> are <span>the most beautiful</span> <span>places to visit</span><span>!</span></span><br>
</font><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Groetjes,<br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Luc Vanbrabant<br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oekene</font></div>
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