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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

CHAPTER XIV
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In Zutphen the tower of the church was set afire by lightning, and the roof was cleft above, and certain persons were wounded, and some were slain by this sudden mischance--in other parts also divers houses were destroyed by fire.

In Zwolle, after Mass, a mighty terror fell upon them that were in the church, and the shutters were shaken from the church windows by a lightning stroke.

In the same year, on the day following the Feast of St.Odulphus, and at the seventh hour when Compline was done, died Brother Frederic, son of John, a Convert from Groninghen.

He was an aged man of about eighty years, and one of the elders amongst them that first dwelt in this place.

In many things he was profitable to the Brothers, for he shaved their heads and blooded them and dressed their wounds, and did other faithful service to the sick and the plague stricken; at length, wearied with age and having a good foundation of holy deeds, he fell asleep in the Lord.


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