[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 61/79
He was a faithful Laic and an Oblate, and when he finished his course was seventy years of age. For forty-five years he lived with us humbly, and in obedience working with the husbandmen, albeit for a long time he had been lame; and after a long trial by sickness he rendered up his soul with patience, and was laid in the western burying-ground with the other Laics. In the same year, and on the day before the Feast of the holy Martyrs, Crispin and Crispian, one Bernard Irte died at Zwolle, being a citizen of that city, and son of Lambert of Irten, a magistrate of the State.
He was a friend to our House, and during his lifetime often visited our church, in which out of his devotion to St.Agnes the Virgin he desired to be buried, and he was laid with the Converts in the western cloister before the door of the church. In the year 1466, on the night of the Feast day of St.Maurus the Abbot, and before Matins, died Wolter Eskens, the father of Gerlac, our cellarer; he was an ancient man, being ninety years old, and he had been formerly our husbandman on a certain farm pertaining to the monastery at Windesem, but he was born in the town of Raelten.
In his old age he left his friends and acquaintance, following his son Gerlac, who was a faithful Oblate, and he lived in our House for nearly eleven years before his death. Long had he been bowed with age, yet he hastened to the church every morning to hear Mass, leaning upon a staff.
He was very good and patient in bearing his bodily weakness, and he fell asleep in the Lord, giving thanks.
So after Mass had been said for him, he was buried with the Laics and servants of our House, in the burying-place of the Donates. In the same year, on the Octave of the Feast of St.Agnes the Virgin, died Christian, a Priest, who was eighty years old.
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