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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

CHAPTER XIV
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In the same year died Sueder of Culenborgh, Bishop of Utrecht, and after his death Pope Eugenius confirmed Rodolph Diepholt, who had been chosen before, to be Bishop of the diocese.
In the year 1434, on the Feast of the Conception of the Glorious Virgin Mary, was invested Brother Bero, a Clerk, of Amsterdam.
In the same year, on July 28th, died Margaret Wilden, a matron of great age and mother of our Brother Oetbert.

She was buried in the broad passage at her son's head, and on the northern side of the cloister.
In the year of the Lord 1436, on the Octave of the Feast of St.Stephen, Proto-Martyr, Brother John, the first Convert of our House, died in Beverwijc, near Haerlem.

He was a faithful man and prudent in business, wherefore he was sent abroad with Brother Hugo of the same House, and bound by his obedience he accepted the mission.
In the same year, on the Feast of St.Juliana the Virgin, after Lauds, died John Benevolt, a Priest of our House, who was born in Groninghen, a man of great simplicity and innocence; he was buried on the eastern side of the cloister, on the right of Brother John Ummen.
In the same year, on the Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, in the first hour after midday, died Brother Alardus, a Priest of Pilsum and a Frisian by nation.

He was well stricken in age, being above seventy-six years old, and had lived the Religious Life for thirty years.

He was a man of great gentleness, and in the celebration of the Mass careful and devout.


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