CHAPTER II.
_Of the death of John Ruesbroeck, first Prior of the Groenendaal_.
In the year of the Lord 1381, and on the second day of December, being the Octave of St.Katherine, Virgin and Martyr, the venerable and most devout Master John Ruesbroeck died in the district of Brabant.

He was the first Prior of the Monastery of the Groenendaal near Brussels, which Monastery pertains to the Order of Canons Regular; he was then in the eighty-eighth year of his age, and he was buried before the north end of the High Altar in the choir.

He took the Religious habit in the aforesaid place amongst the first who were there invested, being then sixty years of age; and, by the help of God, he fulfilled the office of the Priesthood for sixty-four years.

His holy and glorious doctrine was published far and wide over the land of Germany, and giveth light thereto.

This was he whom Master Gerard Groote visited, together with John, a scholar from Zwolle, for he thought that his writings were worthy to be compared with those of the greatest doctors.