Béguinage

A B?guinage is a collection of small buidlings used by Beguines, which were several lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in the 13th century in the Netherlands, of religious women who sought to serve god without retiring from the world.

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• Flemish B?guinages on the Unesco List of World Heritage

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