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Erasmus must have felt attracted to a man who was burdened with a condemnation pronounced by the Sorbonne on account of his too frank expressions regarding the abuses of monastic life. Vitrier had not given up the life on that account, but he devoted himself to reforming monasteries and convents.
Erasmus complied with the request and Jean Vitrier concurred so cordially with the views expressed in these notes that Erasmus afterwards elaborated them at Louvain; in 1504 they were published at Antwerp by Dirck Maertensz. This is the outward genesis of the Enchiridion.
At Saint Omer, Erasmus became acquainted with a man whose image he was afterwards to place beside that of Colet as that of a true divine, and of a good monk at the same time: Jean Vitrier, the warden of the Franciscan monastery at Saint Omer.
'King Ferdinand invites me, with large promises, to come to Vienna, he writes from Basle, 1 October 1528, 'but nowhere would it please me better to rest than in Brabant. Later Erasmus was made to believe that Longolius was a Hollander, cf. At Tournehem: 1501 The restoration of theology now the aim of his life He learns Greek John Vitrier Enchiridion Militis Christiani
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