The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

Chronicle of the Canons Regular
of Mount St. Agnes, The

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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
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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 that afflicted mankind, and how some of our
Brothers died in this plague.
XVII. Of the death of William, son of Seger, a Priest in Hasselt.
XVIII. Of the death of our most reverend Lord Frederic, Bishop of
Utrecht.
XIX. Of the death of Brother John Vos of Huesden, who was the
second Prior at Windesem.
XX. How Brother Theodoric of Kleef was chosen to be the third Prior
of the House on the Mount.
XXI. Of the death of Brother Egbert formerly Sub-Prior at the House
on the Mount.
XXII. How our Brothers and other Religious were driven from the land

by reason of the Interdict.
XXIII. Of the return of our Brothers from Frisia to Mount St. Agnes.
XXIV. Of the death of Brother John of Kempen, the first Prior of
Mount St. Agnes.
XXV. How Theodoric of Kleef, third Prior of the House on the Mount
laid down his office, and was absolved therefrom.
XXVI. How Brother Henry of Deventer was chosen to be the fourth
Prior of the House of Mount St. Agnes.
XXVII. How Father Henry, the fourth Prior, resigned his office, and
how Father George was chosen to be the fifth Prior.
XXVIII. Of the ancient Reliquary of St. Agnes, and how it was gotten.
XXIX. Of the death of Brother Henry, son of William, the fourth Prior
of our House.
SO FAR THE CHRONICLE WAS WRITTEN BY THOMAS OF
KEMPEN; THE RESIDUE THEREOF WAS DONE BY ANOTHER.
FROM THE CHRONICLE OF OUR BROTHER THOMAS OF
KEMPEN CONCERNING MATTERS NOT PERTAINING TO OUR
HOUSE.
I. Concerning the year in which that reverend man, Florentius of
Wevelichoven, was made Bishop of Utrecht.
II. Of the death of John Ruysbroeck, first Prior of the Groenendaal.
III. Of the death of the venerable Master Gerard Groote, a man most
devout.
IV. Of the great eulogy passed upon Gerard by a certain doctor.
V. How, after his death, the number of the Devout and the Order of

Regulars did increase.
VI. Of the consecration of the Church, and the investiture of the first
Brothers in Windesem.
VII. Of the death of John de Gronde, a Priest.
VIII. Of the death of the most Reverend Florentius of Wevelichoven,
Bishop of Utrecht.
IX. How Frederick of Blanckenhem was chosen to be Bishop.
X. How the monastery at