Jan van Ruusbroec

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Jan van Ruusbroec


Born
in Ruisbroek, Belgium
December 18, 1292

Died
October 23, 1381

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Jan (Johannes) van Ruusbroec of Ruysbroeck, ook "de Wonderbare" genoemd wordt beschouwd als een van de grootste mystici van de zuidelijke Nederlanden. Zijn werk, oorspronkelijk geschreven in het Middelnederlands, werd algauw vertaald in het Latijn.
Zijn studies aan de kapittelschool in Brussel werden bekostigd door zijn oom Jan Hinckaert, een rijke priester en kapelaan van de Sint-Goedelekerk te Brussel. Vanaf 1317 was hij op zijn beurt gedurende vijfentwintig jaar kapelaan van Sint-Goedele. Over deze episode uit zijn leven is verder slechts weinig gekend.
Rond 1339 besloten zijn oom, hijzelf en een jonge kanunnik, Vrank van Coudenberg, zich terug te trekken en in afzondering te gaan leven. Vanaf 1343 betrokken ze de kluis van Groenendaal en
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John Ruusbroec: The Spiritu...

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Adornment Of The Spiritual ...

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The Adornment of the Spirit...

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The Spiritual Espousals

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The Book of the Twelve Bégu...

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Blessed John of Ruysbroeck

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Vanden blinckenden steen of...

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“I must rejoice beyond the bounds of time … though the world may shudder at my joy, and in its coarsness know not what I mean.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

“When love has carried us above all things ... we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. What is this Light, if it be not a contemplation of the Infinite, and an intuition of Eternity? We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold; because our being, without losing anything of its own personality, is united with the Divine Truth.”
John of Ruysbroeck

“The depths themselves remain uncomprehended. This is the dark silence in which all lovers are lost.”
Jan van Ruysbroeck