Chapter XVI: Buildings and Builders (continued) (3)

Reader, before quitting Saint Gertrude's, go into the chapel, which skirts the north side of the choir, and there, on the north wall, you will find a white marble tablet, engraved with a Latin inscription. We have here the requiem of Abbot Renesse, and one likes to think that he wrote it himself. Read it, and perhaps it will make you forget the discordant notes of poor Beyaert's gruesome dirge.

D. O. M.
Viatorum in terris implorat
suffragium
et eorum in c[oe]lis sperat
Consortium
A. G. BARO DE RENESSE
Sanctæ Gertrudis Abbas
XX obiit 8 Martii 1785
_R.I.P._