it had been permitted to him to be born in that land, and at that
time when he could see Rome and her Empire flourishing in the height of
their prosperity; and if this is true, Brother most beloved, what return
wilt thou make to the Lord thy God for that it was given thee to be born
and to live in this time of His Most abundant Goodness, and in a land
which He, the Lord, hath blessed? Hadst thou lived in the days of thy
fathers, before our land was illumined by the light of Grace of which so
much hath been said already, what else could have befallen but that thou
shouldest have done even as they did? From which it doth follow that
thou also wouldest have gone even whither they went, there to abide for
ever.

O happy days in which were born the leaders and chiefs of this new army
of ours, I mean Gherard Groet and Florentius, and their son's sons also,
and they that are born from them continually! and so it shall continue to
the end of time. Amen. May the Mother of Grace grant thee to follow
their footsteps and to hold fast their doctrine.

* * * * *

Here endeth the letter concerning the first institutors of the monastery
at Windesem, which letter was written by the venerable Father William
Voern.

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