After a very pious childhood and teenage years which were devoted to the care of the poor and sick in her father’s house, she experienced a “conversion” at the age of 20 and, several years afterwards, took vows before her brother Hugh and established her first beguine community near the Roubaud River on the edge of the town of Hyères (c. 1241).
Durango was the center of a medieval Beguine heresy that ended with 13 people burnt at the stake.
Volver a empezar, an award-winning Spanish film of 1982 also known as Begin the Beguine.