The PenanceChristian reader, hearken and believe! Great and strange things have I to report to you, things it takes courage to tell. But if I find courage to utter, then shall you blush not to find courage to believe. Not hastily will I chide you for a doubter, rather I count on your belief, just as far as I count on my ability to tell in a credible manner what has been told me. Upon this ability I firmly confide, and so also on your belief.
My truthful tale is this: on the narrow square at the top of this wild rock in the lake Gregorius, son of Wiligis and Sibylla and husband of the latter, all stark living alone and wanting all mercy, spent as many years as he had numbered when he so culpably left his island far away in the sea and the cloister of God’s Passion—full seventeen years he s
