The Beguines

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Inspired by the fact that the last Beguine died last month, I have to ask several questions:

The Catholic Encyclopedia seems to look askance on the Beguines as heretical; yet the Church never deigned to fully suppress them. Why was this so?
Were the Beguines Juffrow Pattyn belonged to orthodox?
If orthodox, why did they fail at attracting new vocations, especially given the emphasis of recent councils on lay spiritual movements?

economist.com/news/obituary/21576632-marcella-pattyn-worlds-last-beguine-died-april-14th-aged-92-marcella-pattyn
 
Thank you for this - we visited one of these community settlements in Amsterdam, and it was a special place indeed. We were told that sea captains’ wives would live there while their men were away on 3 year voyages to be safe.
 
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