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Benedictine monk · spiritual writer · Medieval

Johannes of Kastl

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fl. c. 1400–1430

Benedictine monk of the abbey of Kastl in the Upper Palatinate, a writer of the monastic reform of the early fifteenth century; the treatise De adhaerendo Deo, long printed among the works of Albert the Great, is now usually ascribed to him.

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Historical place associated with Johannes of Kastl: Kastl Abbey, the Benedictine house where he was a monk (photograph, c. 1910s); not a portrait
No likeness of Johannes of Kastl survives; shown: Kastl Abbey, the Benedictine house where he was a monk (photograph, c. 1910s)

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On Cleaving to God

A short treatise on detachment and inward union with God, long printed among the works of Albert the Great but now usually ascribed to the Benedictine Johannes of Kastl (c. 1429); it teaches stripping the mind of images and cleaving to God in naked faith and love.
c. 1429Devotional theologyRead