When this sister Lubbe, written about above, was the procuratrix and had to care for those external things — and also before her time — there was such great poverty and neediness here in the external necessities and other things which one required that whosoever intended to persevere until the end, truly needed a very ardent spirit, and needed to have set her foundation and intention firmly in our dear Lord… otherwise she truly would not have been able to keep persevering.
Sometimes when someone needed to be sent out, since they were so poor in terms of clothing, it sometimes happened, that one would have to borrow clothing from another, because she did not herself have what was necessary for decency.
There was one sister named Gene Brandis who had patched her best gray dress with a leather apron in the front, like those with which one used to work; and on holy days, it was her ‘best dress,’ and on work days, she used to work in it. And then she did not need to tie any leather apron onto her front, because that leather, which she had patched at the front of her dress, that covered her whole chest.
This excerpt comes from columns 5d-6b in the Manuscript.