e hour of
Vespers, died our Brother Oetbert Wilde, a fervent and devout priest. The
Brothers were with him when he died, and they offered up prayers after
the accustomed manner. He was in the thirty-eighth year of his age, and
the fifteenth after his profession: he came from Zwolle, where he was
born of very honest parents, and he loved our patroness St. Agnes the
Virgin with a special devotion. In the beginning he suffered many
weaknesses and temptations, but afterward, by the help of God, he was
changed into another man, mightily uplifted from pusillanimity of spirit,
and endowed with much grace of devotion. He died happily after a good
struggle, and on the next day his body was buried next to Brother
Nicholas Kreyenschot on the eastern side of the cloister, and Mass and
prayers were said for him.

On the Feast of St. Michael, after Vespers had been said, Nicholas, son
of Peter, departed this life. He was a Donate of our House, and a
carpenter, being a man of great stature and mighty strength, and he had
lived for more than twenty years in the House of Mount St. Agnes. He
came from Monekedam in Holland, and having lived with us from the very
beginning of the monastery, he left a good memorial of his skill and
industry in his craft in the building of the church, and the new stalls
for the Brothers in the choir. His body was laid in the burial-ground of
the Laics, toward the south part and near the path.

On the day of St. Jerome the Priest, at about the time when the midday
meal was ended, died Riquin of Urdinghen, a Donate of our House who
attended the sick. He departed after a brief agony, while Litanies were
sung round his death-bed: his native place was in the diocese of Cologne,
and during the twenty-five years that he lived in the House on the Mount
he never visited his friends, nor saw his native land once he had
departed from her. He loved the Blessed Virgin with singleness of heart,
and on the seventh day of the week he abstained from one portion of
pottage out of devotion to her. In these three desires he was heard of
the Lord before his death, namely, to die on an high day, and amid the
Brothers--for he greatly loved them--and to have a short death struggle;
which things were so brought to pass by our good Lord even as he had
desired them out of his good and simple heart.

On the Feast Day of St. Luke the Evangelist, at about the fifth hour of
the morning, died Adam of Herderwijck, a Donate of ou