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BOURIGNON, ANTOINETTE (1616-168o) , Flemish mystic, was born at Lille
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Scotland . Her religious enthusiasm, peculiarity of views and disregard of all sects raised both zealous persecutors and warm adherents. On her death at Franeker, Friesland, on the 3oth of October 168o, she left a large number of followers, who, however, dwindled rapidly away; but in the early 18th century her influence revived in Scotland sufficiently to call
ordinary type, distinguished only by the audacity and persistency of herpretensions. Her writings, containing an account of her life and of her visions and opinions, were collected by her disciple, Pierre Poiret (19 vols., Amsterdam
critical account see Hauck, Realencyklopadie (Leipzig
Bourignon
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