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David Joris

Belgian religious leader
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Born:
1501/02, Ghent or Bruges, Flanders [now in Belgium]
Died:
August 25, 1556, Basel, Switz.

David Joris (born 1501/02, Ghent or Bruges, Flanders [now in Belgium]—died August 25, 1556, Basel, Switz.) was a religious reformer, a controversial and eccentric member of the Anabaptist movement. He founded the Davidists, or Jorists, who viewed Joris as a prophet and whose internal dissension led—three years after his death—to the sensational cremation of his body after his posthumous conviction as a heretic. A painter of stained glass by trade, Joris settled in Delft (now in the Netherlands) in 1524. He was soon involved in the controversies of the Reformation, then at their peak, and he engaged in outspoken attacks ...(100 of 381 words)

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