Jan Mombaer
John Mauburnus and Jan Mombaer, also called John of Brussels (* 1460 in Brussels, † January 1502 in Paris ) was a Dutch Augustinian Canons, theologian and devotional writer.
Life and work
He attended the Cathedral School in Utrecht, where he learned, among other things grammar and Gregorian chant. After that, he entered the Augustinian Canons a St. Agneten in Zwolle, which belonged to the Windesheim Congregation. Here he wrote pamphlets edifying content, including Venatorium Sanctorum Ordinis Canonicorum regularium, Scala sacre communionis and Rosetum applicable from the beginning as his main work exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum. Nicolaus of Hacqueville, Abbot of Livry, asked to entrust with the management of a Mauburnus Windesheimer embassy, which had the task to reform some monasteries in and around Paris. The General Chapter of Windesheim Congregation agreed to this request and the delegation headed by John Mauburnus succeeded the reform and reorganization of monasteries. Mauburnus died in early 1502 ( according to other Census 1503) as abbot of Livry.
On the importance of Rosetum
The Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum appeared from 1494 (possibly already in 1491 ) to 1620 in at least five, possibly six, spending in Basel, Paris, Milan and Douai. This work not only influenced the Windesheimer reform movement, but was also Stapulensis Faber, a forerunner of the Reformation in France, the German reformer Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, known. Faber Stapulensis recommended the Rosetum and its author, whom he knew personally, and described as a kind, pious man, editor of the Paris edition of 1510. Luther could have met the Rosetum in the Augustinian Hermits monastery in Erfurt and cited it in his Psalm lectures by 1513th In Ignatius of Loyola is thought that he received suggestions regarding the organization of pious exercises from the Rosetum, the clergy found their way into his later exercises.