... feeling, that the brother forsook the brother the sister the sister the wife her husband; and at last, even the parent his own offspring, and abandoned them, unvisited and unsoothed, to their fate. ... before they had venerated the Brothers of the Cross, they now persecuted them with relentless severity; and in the Mark, as well as in all the other countriesof Germany, they pursued them as if they ... But as these brotherhoods gained in repute, and werewelcomed by the people with veneration and enthusiasm, many nobles and ecclesiastics ranged themselvesunder their standard; and their bands...