ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 20th of August WELCOME! GEERT GROOTE, FOUNDER The beginning of the Book of the Hours of Geert Groote ¹Gerardus, (August 20), surnamed Magnus, died on this day at Deventer (Daventriae) in the Netherlands. He founded the Brotherhood of Good Will, whose members lived in community. The Bollandists * list him neither as “blessed” nor as “saint.” ²Gerard Groote (October 1340 - 20 August 1384), otherwise Gerrit or Gerhard Groet, in Latin Gerardus Magnus, was a Dutch Catholic deacon. Groote and Florence Radewyns, one of his disciples, founded at Zwolle the Brethren of the Common Life. In 1387 a site was secured at Windesheim, north of Deventer, and here was established the monastery that became the cradle of the Windesheim Congregation of canons regular embracing in course of time nearly one hundred houses, and leading the way in the series of reforms undertaken during the 15th century by all the religious orders in...