Note 1 — NOTE.
Reading edition
Die Weibliche Diakonie, vol. i, p. 67.
2 Woman’s Work in the Church, Ludlow, p. 117, note. “Matthew Paris mentions it as one of the wonders of the age, for the year 1250, that in Germany there rose up an innumerable multitude of those continent women who wish to be called Béguines, to that extent that Cologne was inhabited by more than a thousand of them.”
3 Die Weibliche Diakonie, Schäfer, vol. i, p. 70.
4 Der Diakonissenberuf E. Wacker, p. 82.
5 Denkschrift zur Jubelfeier, J. Disselhoff, p. 5. Gütersloh, 1888.
6 Die Weibliche Diakonie, vol. i, p. 73.
7 Histoire de la principauté de Sédan, Pasteur Pegran, vol. ii, chaps. i, ii.