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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

CHAPTER XIV
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Likewise he composed divers little books for the edification of the young, which books were plain and simple in style, but mighty in the matter thereof and in their effectual operation.
The thought of the Lord's passion filled his heart with love, and he was wondrous comfortable to the troubled and the tempted; but as age grew upon him he was vexed with a dropsy in the legs, and so fell asleep in the Lord and was buried in the eastern cloister by the side of Brother Peter Herbort.

In the same year, on the Feast day of St.Lambert, and after Prime, Brother Hermann Craen the Vestiarius died of the plague, being sixty-four years old.

In the beginning he was Sacristan, but afterward, and for above fifteen years, Vestiarius.

Then for thirteen years he held the office of Procurator, but being set aside from that office, he was for the second time appointed to be Vestiarius, in which vocation he gained much praise for that he provided sufficiently for every man so far as the means of the House did allow.

After that he was set aside from his office of Procurator he bore himself patiently: and he had lived the Religious Life with us for thirty-eight years and a half: but in the day aforesaid, when Vigils had been sung for him, he was buried after supper-time in the eastern passage.
In the same year, on the day before the Feast of St.Francis, and after Matins, Wichman Spuelre died of the plague.


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