[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 75/79
He was buried in the eastern cloister. In the year of the Lord 1474, on the day of St.Agapitus the Martyr, died Goswin ter Beeck, a Laic of our household, who was born in Zwolle, being -- years old, but he had lived with us for about fifty-three years; his life was a very pattern, and well ordered, both in word and deed; he had been our miller for more than forty years, and was very faithful to the House.
In that he greatly feared that death should come suddenly, he made his confession to the venerable Prior after due preparation, and a short time afterwards he met that death which he had feared, for God ordained it so. In the same year died our beloved Brother Gerard, son of Tric, that was a Convert.
This befell on the second day after the Feast of St.Lucia, Virgin and Martyr, and after Matins.
He was eighty-two years old, and for many years had been a Donate, but having lived honestly amongst us for more than thirty years he was invested as a Convert, for so it seemed good to the Prior and the whole Brotherhood.
He was most strict in observing discipline, weighty in word and character, austere toward himself, and a lover of poverty.
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