Synopsis of Events from the Creation of the World

[...cru]cifix completing the word "crucifix" from the preceding page, kissing it many times, and courageously embracing the candle and the Rosary Rosarium A string of beads used in Catholic prayer to track a sequence of devotions. To the Father assisting him and leading the Act of Contrition Contritionis Actum A formal prayer expressing sorrow for sins according to the Catholic rite, he responded with those same words from his whole heart. This continued until the twelfth hour; when his wife asked him how he felt, he asserted that he was beyond all pain, and thus his very last word was the denial of pain. After this, stretching out his hands to his wife, he said his farewell: and immediately he lost all his senses.

Therefore, we performed the commendations of the soul commendationes animæ Final prayers recited by a priest for a person at the moment of death. Meanwhile, he seemed to rest peacefully, with no sign of life other than the movement of his eyes and tongue as he breathed; in this way, he carried his half-living spirit for a short time past four in the afternoon. There, after enduring several convulsions, as he was passing away, we began the Psalm Miserere original: "psalmum Miserere." Psalm 51, which begins "Have mercy on me, O God," traditionally recited for the dying. At these very words: “The sacrifice to God is a broken spirit,” original: "Sacrificium DEO Spiritus contribulatus." A quote from Psalm 51:17 he most peacefully gave up his spirit.

He left as his heir his daughter, Maria Dorothea, now in her eighth year, whom God had granted to him as a comfort for his old age at the advanced years of both himself and his spouse, in the 30th year of their marriage. With him, the Besold family original: "familia Besoldiana." This indicates the end of his specific male lineage is now extinguished; however, he will transmit an immortal name even to his distant descendants. This man was truly and from his heart a Catholic, Roma[n...] The text cuts off mid-word, likely continuing to "Roman Catholic"