[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 VII 6/6
These were buried in the Chapel of St.Agnes, which afterward became the Chapter House, because there was no other consecrated ground in the which they could be buried.
But as the space was very narrow, some were buried in a neighbouring spot, because it was hoped that a burial-ground would soon be consecrated there. But in the year 1407, in the time of William Vorniken, the second Prior, and after the consecration of the new chapel, the bones of some of these Brothers were taken up and buried again in the other burial-ground on the western side of the chapel, where now several Lay Brothers who knew them lie buried also. In the same year, on the Feast day of St.Martin, the Bishop, Brother Egbert Linghen, the first Rector, invested two converts; their names being Brother John, son of James of Hasselt, and Brother John Eme of Zwolle. In the year 1399, on the Feast of St.Gregory the Pope, Brother Godefried of Kempen, who was born in the diocese of Cologne, was invested by the first Rector.
He was a skilful writer and singer, and he wrote one missal for the High Altar, and three Antiphonaries, and likewise illuminated several books.
Also he painted and adorned the altars of the church most beautifully with the figures of saints..
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