Synopsis of Events from the Creation of the World

...crucifix, having kissed it many times, and bravely embraced the blessed candle and the Rosary. To the Father the assisting priest who was attending him and leading the Act of Contrition Contritionis Actum according to the Catholic rite, he responded with his whole soul, repeating every word. This continued until the twelfth hour noon; at that time, when his wife asked him how he felt, he declared that he was beyond all pain, and thus his final word was a denial of pain. After this, having held out his hands to his wife to say farewell, he immediately lost all his senses.

Therefore, we performed the Commendations of the Soul A series of formal prayers recited as a person is dying to entrust their spirit to God. Meanwhile, he seemed to rest peacefully, showing no sign of life other than the movement of his eyes and tongue as he breathed; in this way, he maintained his half-alive spirit for a short time after four o'clock in the afternoon. There, after enduring several convulsions as his life ebbed away, we began to recite the Psalm Miserere original: "Psalm Miserere." This is Psalm 51, a traditional prayer of repentance. At these specific words:

original: "Sacrificium DEO Spiritus contribulatus"

he most peacefully gave up his spirit. He left as his heir his daughter, Maria Dorothea, then in her eighth year, whom God had granted to him as a comfort for his old age during the later years of both himself and his wife, in the 30th year of their marriage. With him, the Besold family has also passed away original: "familia Besoldiana intermortua." This indicates that Christopher was the last male of his line; yet he shall transmit an immortal name even to his distant descendants. This man was truly and from his heart a Catholic,