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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

CHAPTER VII
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For at harvest time when all must labour more than usual he was diligent in helping therein.

And sometimes at night he would gather in the crops of the poor, and often wearied himself by this work of piety; but in this year the weather was very rainy, and the crops were in such danger that he gathered in those that grew in the watery places, and binding them into sheaves carried them on his own shoulders out of reach of the waters.
On the Feast Day of the Saints Crispin and Crispian died Wichbold, son of John of Deventer, a man of good lineage.

For a long time he lived a devout life in Zwolle, but afterward finished his days yet more devoutly on the Mount.

Being an eager lover of the Scriptures he edified many by his holy discourse.

On the Feast Day of St.Martin the Confessor, Henry of Deventer fell asleep in Christ; he was a Clerk and the companion and fellow citizen of Wichbold, and likewise a very humble and gentle man.
One day he was plastering the inner walls of the cells in the dormitory of the Brotherhood with soft mortar in company with another Clerk.


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