Monk and scholar. Thomas A. Kempis studied with the congregation of the Brethren of the Common Life in the city of Deventer, became a priest, and spent most of his life in the monasteryAgnietenberg near Zwolle. His life was devoted to the copying of religious manuscripts, but Thomas also wrote many books and treatises himself, of which the most fa mous are The Imitation of Christ and a biography of Geert Groote, the founder of the congregation of the Brethren.
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