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===The Brethren of the Common Life=== {{Main|Brethren of the Common Life}} Young men especially flocked to him in great numbers. Some of these he sent to his schools, others he occupied at transcribing good books, to all he taught thorough Christian piety. Groote and [[Florence Radewyns]], his favourite disciple, founded at Zwolle the '''Brethren of the Common Life'''. In 1387 a site was secured at Windesheim, some {{convert|24|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of Deventer, and here was established the monastery that became the cradle of the [[Windesheim Congregation]] of canons regular embracing in course of time nearly one hundred houses, and leading the way in the series of reforms undertaken during the 15th century by all the religious orders in Germany.{{sfn|Butler|1911|p=614}} Henceforth his communities, which were spreading rapidly through the Netherlands, Lower Germany, and Westphalia, claimed and received all his attention. He contemplated organizing his clerics into a community of canons regular, but it was left to Radewyns, his successor, to realize this plan at Windesheim two years later.<ref name=schrantz/>
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