[The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Thomas a Kempis]@TWC D-Link bookThe Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes CHAPTER XIV 36/79
This convent was afterward destroyed utterly by fire in the year 14--, and the Sisters were removed to Brussels with great honour by the Duchess of Burgundy. In the year of the Lord 1450 many faithful servants of Christ went to Rome to gain Indulgences, which our Lord, Pope Nicholas V, by advice of the Cardinals, and moved himself by piety and mercy, had granted by a Bull in the previous year.
Then did many Christian folk that sojourned on this holy pilgrimage return whole, but many died by the way, and many in the city of Rome. In the same year, in Holland, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Zwolle, Kampen, Deventer, Zutphen and many other towns and hamlets, a bubonic plague raged, and many devout persons and religious, as also many worldlings, departed from this present life.
In the same year the winter time was very mild, with but little snow and thin ice, but the wind was cold.
In Lent, and at the beginning of March, our fishers took great abundance of the fish called smelts, wherewith, during the Fast, our Brothers were fed, and also many poor beggars at our gates. In the same year the men of Zwolle builded a great and lofty bridge of strong wooden timbers across the River Vecht, not far from our monastery, to serve the necessities of their own folk and the convenience of men that would come thither; the cost thereof was six hundred Rhenish florins. In the same year, on the Feast of St.John before the Latin Gate, Brother Gerard of Deventer, whose surname was Bredenort, was invested. In the same year, on the twenty-ninth day of August, died James Oem, Rector of the Sisters at Bronope, near Kampen, who for nine years had exercised a kindly rule over that House.
After his death the Prior of Windesem appointed Brother Dirk of Kleef to be Rector and Confessor of this House.
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