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Jean de Labadie (13 February 1610 – 13 February 1674) was a 17th-century French Pietist. Originally a Jesuit priest, he became a member of the Reformed Church in 1650, before founding the community which became known as the Labadists in 1669. At its height the movement numbered around 600 with thousands of adherents further afield.
Jean de Labadie (born Feb. 13, 1610, Bourg, near Bordeaux, France—died Feb. 13, 1674, Altona, near Hamburg [Germany]) was a French theologian, a Protestant convert from Roman Catholicism who founded the Labadists, a Pietist community. While a novice in the Jesuit religious order at Bordeaux, France, Labadie claimed a vision to reform the church.
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Title page of the Operis de religione (1625) from Francisco Suárez. The Labadists were a 17th-century Protestant religious community movement founded by Jean de Labadie (1610–1674), a French pietist. The movement derived its name from that of its founder.
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LABADIE, JEAN DE. Founder of the Labadists; b. Bourg, near Bordeaux, Feb. 13, 1610; d. Altona, Feb. 13, 1674. He was educated by the Jesuits at Bordeaux, then entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained in 1635. As a teacher and preacher he gained considerable renown, and he was esteemed for his piety. However, he imagined himself to have ...
Labadie, Jean (1610-1674) A French religious leader of the seventeenth century who was born in 1610 at Bourg, on the Dordogne. He declared himself a second John the Baptist, sent to announce the second coming of the Messiah, and also claimed some measure of divinity for himself.
