"I choose to live hidden all the days of my pilgrimage, behaving like a true pilgrim and empty-handed traveller, in order that I may in safety await the day of the Lord, being most rich, and at the same time very poor; most rich in seeking nothing, very poor in having nothing."
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Gerlac Peterson
Gerlac Peterson (– 18 November 1411) was a Dutch mystic.
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