[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 40/79
He had lived long in the House, and on the day following when the first Mass had been said he was laid in the burying ground of the Lay Brothers. After him, and on the night before the Feast of St.Mary Magdalene, before Matins, died Everard Ens of Campen, a good and faithful Laic and Fellow Commoner, who had lived with us for fifteen years. In the same year, in the month of August, on the night before the Feast of St.Dominic the Confessor, and before Matins, died our most beloved Brother Theodoric of Kleef.
He was the third Prior of our House, and an old man and full of days, for he was seventy-six years old, and had fulfilled fifty-five years in the Religious Life.
When the first Brothers were invested here, he was the fourth to receive the Habit, and from the very beginning of the monastery, before any of the Brothers had received investiture, he with the Clerks and Lay folk in this place had begun to serve the Lord in much poverty and toil.
Moreover, it had always been his desire that by the favour of the Lord he might end his life in this same House with the Brothers, and be buried amongst them, and so it came about, for he was laid in the eastern passage by the side of our Brother, Henry Cremer, whom he had drawn to the Religious Life, and whom he had loved with all his heart.
Thus it came about that as they had loved one another in life, so in death and in the grave they were not divided. In the same year and month, on the day following the Feast of Sixtus, Pope and Martyr, and when noon was past, died Dirk, son of Wychmann of Arnheim, who had lived here for two years. In the same year, in the month of August, on the Feast of St.Lawrence the Martyr, and in the morning after Prime, died Matthias, son of William of Overcamp, a Donate of our House, who had been overseer of husbandry for a great while.
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