Theodoric Vrie (dates unknown) was a historian of the
Council of Constance
The Council of Constance was a 15th-century ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance in present-day Germany. The council ended the Western Schism by deposing or accepting the res ...
.
He describes himself as a brother of the Order of
Hermits of St. Augustine, and a
lector
Lector is Latin for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages it takes various forms, as either a development or a loan, such as french: lecteur, en, lector, pl, lektor and russian: лектор. It has various specialized uses.
...
in sacred theology in the Province of
Saxony
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. From his description of facts it appears that Vrie must have been an eyewitness to the events he records. The history is brought down to the election and consecration of
Pope Martin V
Pope Martin V ( la, Martinus V; it, Martino V; January/February 1369 – 20 February 1431), born Otto (or Oddone) Colonna, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 November 1417 to his death in February 1431. Hi ...
, 21 Nov., 1417. Vrie was still living in the summer of 1425, when a general chapter of his order at Rome authorized the republication of his work. Vrie's work is modelled on the ''
De consolatione philosophiæ'' of
Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known as Boethius (; Latin: ''Boetius''; 480 – 524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, '' magister officiorum'', historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the t ...
; this also is its original title. It presents a picture of the facts and disorders of the time, pointing out their source, and the remedy under the form of a series of dialogues in prose and metre between Christ and the
Church Militant
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*the Church Militant (), also called the Church Pilgrim which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the ...
. The "De consolatione" of Vrie was printed in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
in 1484 with the works of
Jean Gerson
Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the ...
(fourth volume), but was not repeated in the
Strasbourg edition of Gerson in 1494. It was printed again with a short life of the author in von der Hardt (see below).
References
;Attribution
* Cites:
**Von der Hardt, ''Magni Ecumenici Concilii Constantiensis Historia'' (6 vols., Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1697), I, introd., 1-228
**Lanteri, ''Postrema saecula sex'' (Tolentino, 1858);
**
Alzog
Johann Baptist Alzog (8 June 1808 – 1 March 1878) was a German theologian and Catholic church historian.
He was born at Ohlau, in Silesia. He studied at the universities of Breslau and Bonn and was ordained a priest at Cologne in 1834.
In t ...
, ''Manual of Church History'' (Cincinnati, 1903), II, 858.
Western Schism
Vrie, Theodoric
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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