biography
pronunciation:
[labadee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1610–74)
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| biography:
| Protestant reformer, born in Bourg, SW France. A former member of the Jesuits, he became a Pietist and a Calvinist convert in 1650. He preached a return to primitive Christianity in Holland, and was excommunicated from the Reformed Church in 1670, whereupon he moved his Labadist colony to Germany. |
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