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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

CHAPTER XIV
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Also many other honourable men, and friends of the said William, came together to his burial from the aforesaid towns, and the Prior of the House recited the burial office with faithful devotion in presence of the Brothers.
After his death Father Gerard Trecht was called by the Fathers of our Order to rule over the aforesaid Sisters in the room of the departed Brother.
In the same year, during the days of Pentecost, peace was established between the men of Utrecht and Holland, and those of Geldria, for during a whole year they had been at grievous enmity, and many deeds of rapine, murder, and arson had been wrought in evil wise on both sides.
In the month of September, on the day before the Feast of S.S.

Cosmas and Damianus, Brother John Pric, a priest and inmate of the House of Mount St.Agnes, died in Thabor in Frisia.

He was born in the town of Steenwyck, and had been Vicar of the Church of St.Clement in that place, but after several years, at the request of the Prior at Thabor, he dwelt for a time with the Brothers of that House, and in the same year many died in the pestilence, amongst whom he also fell asleep in the Lord, and was buried with the other Brothers in that place on the eastern side of the cloister.

This was his motto for the novices: "He that doth not accustom himself to exercises of humility at the beginning of his conversion, and doth not break down his own will, shall seldom become a good Religious." In the month of October, on the day of the translation of St.Augustine the Bishop, there died at Zwolle that honourable dame, Mary, the widow of Henry de Haerst, our neighbour.

She was truly pious and pitiful towards the needy, and often came humbly to Mount St.Agnes to hear the Holy Offices.


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