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THOMAS CONECTE (d. 1434)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:CONECTE (d. 1434)  , See also:French Carmelite See also:monk and preacher, was See also:born at See also:Rennes . He travelled through See also:Flanders and See also:Picardy, denouncing the vices of the See also:clergy and the extravagant See also:dress of the See also:women, especially their lofty See also:head-dresses, or hennins . He ventured to See also:teach that he who is a true servant of See also:God need fear no papal curse, that the See also:Roman See also:hierarchy is corrupt, and that See also:marriage is permissible to the clergy, of whom only some have the See also:gift of continence . He was listened to by immense congregations, and in See also:Italy, despite the opposition V1 . 2gof See also:Nicolas See also:Kenton (d . 1468), provincial of the See also:English See also:Carmelites, he introduced several changes into the rules of that See also:order . He was .finally apprehended by order of See also:Pope See also:Eugenius IV., condemned and burnt for See also:heresy . An See also:account of See also:Friar See also:Thomas's See also:preaching and its effect is given by Enguerrand de See also:Monstrelet, See also:provost of See also:Cambrai (d . 1453), in his continuation of See also:Froissart's See also:chronicles .

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