Editing Devotio Moderna (section)

===Decline===
In the early 15th century, even before the Protestant Revolution, Devotio Moderna was fading due to many Christians wanting more "pomp and ceremony in processions".<ref name=":022" /> In the wake of the Protestant Reformation, the institutions of the ''Devotio Moderna'' declined rapidly.

In Protestant territories, both the brother houses and the monasteries were dissolved. Most of the houses of the Brethren, including the founding homes of Deventer and Zwolle, had disappeared by 1600. In Roman Catholic areas, some of the brother houses and houses of the Windesheim Congregation survived until they fell victim to the secularisations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most important members of the Windesheim Congregation in Germany, St. Marienwolde in Frenswegen, held out until 1809, when the state officially dissolved it. The last canon, Gerhard Tobbe, left Frenswegen in 1815.<ref>'Devotio Moderna', in Jill Raitt with Bernard McGinn and John Meyendorff, eds, ''Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation'', (London: SCM, 1989), p. 179.</ref>