Bursfeld Congregation

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Corporate name heading	Bursfeld Congregation *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Benedictines. Bursfeld Congregation Bursfelder Benediktiner-Kongregation Bursfelder Union Bursfelder Kongregation Bursfeld Union Union of Bursfeld Congregation of Bursfeld Congregatio Bursfeldensis Observantia per Germaniam Benedictine Congregation of Bursfeld
Found in	Rosenthal, A. Martyrologium und Festkalender der Bursfelder Kongregation, 1984: t.p. (Bursfelder Kongregation) p. 10, etc. (a reform movement within the Benedictine order, named for its originating abbey, Bursfeld; founded 1446; in 1530 included 94 abbeys; Bursfelder Benediktiner-Kongregation) Brockh. Enzyk. (under Bursfelde, former Benedictine abbey in Lower Saxony: Bursfelder Kongregation (Bursfelder Union) a union of Benedictine abbeys; fd. by Johannes Hagen; confirmed by Pope Pius II in 1459; comprised 111 monasteries in Germany and NW Europe; abolished 1803) New Cath. encycl. (under Bursfeld, Abbey of: Bursfeld Congregation or Union) New Cath. encyc., 2003 v. 2, p. 272 (Congregation of Bursfeld, approved in 1446 by the Council of Basel) Google search, 26 Jan. 2006 (Union of Bursfeld (Congregatio Bursfeldensis), also known as the Observantia per Germaniam; Congregation of Bursfeld (extinct, est. 5 Dec. 1432); Benedictine Congregation of Bursfeld; Bursfeld Union)