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Title: The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

Author: Thomas a Kempis

Release Date: September 26, 2005 [eBook #16759]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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The Chronicles of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
written by Thomas A Kempis.
Translated by J. P. Arthur.

M.

[Dedication in Greek which cannot be reproduced].

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

PREFACE

THE CHRONICLE OF THE CANONS REGULAR OF MOUNT ST AGNES

I. Of the first founders of the Monastery at Mount St. Agnes, and
how Master Gerard Groote first pointed out this place to them.

II. Of the building of the first House on Mount St. Agnes.

III. Concerning the names of the first Brothers and their labours.

IV. Of the scanty food and raiment of the Brothers, and how
wondrously God did provide for them.

V. Of the consecration of the first chapel and altar at Mount St.
Agnes.

VI. Of the year and place in which the first four Brothers were
invested.

VII. How the monastery was removed from Westerhof to Mount St. Agnes.

VIII. How John Kempen was chosen as the first prior of Mount St. Agnes.

IX. How the Burial-ground at Mount St. Agnes was consecrated.

X. Of the Brothers who were invested by John of Kempen, the first
Prior.

XI. Of the death of Brother Wolfard, Priest in the Monastery of Mount
St. Agnes.

XII. How Brother William Vorniken was chosen to be the second Prior in
the House of Mount St. Agnes.

XIII. Of the death of Brother Nicholas Kreyenschot.

XIV. Of the consecration of our Church and of four Altars in the House
of Mount St. Agnes.

XV. Of the death of the beloved Father John Ummen, the first Founder
of the Monastery of Mount St. Agnes.

XVI. Of the pestilence th