Thomas à Kempis
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Thomas à Kempis, CRV (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471;[2] German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen[3]) was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of The Imitation of Christ, published anonymously in Latin in the Netherlands c. 1418–1427, one of the most popular and best known Christian devotional books. His name means "Thomas of Kempen",[lower-alpha 1] Kempen being his home town.
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Born | 1380 Kempen, Prince-Archbishopric of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire |
Died | 25 July 1471(1471-07-25) (aged 90–91) Zwolle, Bishopric of Utrecht, Holy Roman Empire |
Venerated in | Anglicanism Lutheranism |
Major shrine | Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ten-Hemelopnemingkerk |
Feast | 30 August |
Influences | Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Joan of Arc, Dante Alighieri, Paul the Apostle, Geert Groote, Florens Radewyns, Henry Suso |
Influenced | Alexander Hegius von Heek, Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas More, John Fisher, Ignatius of Loyola, Erasmus, Edmund Burke, Joseph De Maistre, Thomas Merton, John Wesley, José Rizal, Swami Vivekananda, Shailer Mathews, Søren Kierkegaard |
Major works | The Imitation of Christ |
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He was a member of the Modern Devotion, a spiritual movement during the late medieval period, and a follower of Geert Groote and Florens Radewyns, the founders of the Brethren of the Common Life.[4]