Editing Devotio Moderna (section)

===''The Imitation of Christ''===
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''[[The Imitation of Christ]]'' (c. 1418), often attributed to [[Thomas à Kempis]] (d. 1471), a Brother of the Common Life, outlines the concepts of Modern Devotion, based on personal connection to God and the active showing of love towards Him (e.g., in the [[Blessed Sacrament]] of the altar or during [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]]). It influenced a number of Saints such as [[Thérèse of Lisieux]] and [[Ignatius of Loyola]]. Though the members of Devotio Moderna also wrote in their native language, which was [[IJssellands]], a written language which stood in between [[Middle Dutch]] and [[Middle Low German]],<ref>Jurjen van der Kooij; Henk Bloemhoff, Hermann Niebaum en Siemon Reker, [https://dbnl.org/tekst/kooi001hand01_01/index.php Handboek Nedersaksische taal- en letterkunde]. Koninklijke van Gorcum (2008), p. 43. {{ISBN|978-90-232-4329-8}}</ref><ref>Naar een taalgeschiedenis van van Oostnederland. Hermann Niebaum, 1985.</ref><ref>[https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/toor004gesc01_01/colofon.php Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal]. Amsterdam University Press (1997), p. 155.</ref> ''The Imitation of Christ'' is written in Latin. 

By the late 15th century the advent of the [[printing press]] increased the reach of the movement; ''The Imitation of Christ'' was printed in several languages by the end of the century.