Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

...made; but I believe it is necessary perhaps already too [much] for you to repeat this truth more often, so that I may never forget how the Grace of God works.

I now hasten to the end of this speech, which has become so long. I only wish to remind you once more of what our Most Reverend Administrator did for our foundation, which I shall relate to you in two words, regarding the occasion by which he unexpectedly received the dignity of an Imperial Royal Privy Councilor. I have seen his kindred? loyalty to his Lord shine forth, and he recognized it, and appointed him in the year 1760. 1760 as a Royal Bohemian Privy Councilor. He confirmed this loyalty even further by providing the Imperial Army with grain completely free of charge during the recent war, and by procuring various important advantages for his army, which Field Marshal Count von Daun did not leave unmentioned in his reports to the Imperial Empress. And since she was never accustomed to leaving her beloved servants unrewarded, she thought to herself, and appointed him of her own free and most gracious impulse in the year 1769 as her Privy Councilor, and paid the high tax for his patent, which had already been stipulated; furthermore, she completely waived it, allowed him to occupy his seat whenever he wished, and for the same reasons, His Imperial Majesty also appointed him his Privy Councilor. But when he saw that the state would be betrayed by this, he renounced it voluntarily and preferred to remain among his honors and founders, renouncing the other.

Now my Most Reverend Brothers, can I truly speak of what he has done for us? Is his memory not enough, or is it necessary for me to speak at length? It is not enough that he personally established us on August 7, 1775, honored the same with various donations from the Most Reverend Council of Joseph von Goldenfließ, and confirmed our † Order's foundations according to his own choice,

but he also gave the surviving †† Order's members the permission for continued existence long in the future, and to hold a convent in the year 1775 to regulate the special affairs of the Foundation Province. At this, he ordered our Most Reverend Commissioner, Brother ab Aquila imperiali from the Imperial Eagle, to appear to make his wishes and orders known to the brothers present there. And so that all the affairs of our province, because of his diligent service, were not hindered by arbitrators—which he had to bring about together with his excellent, diligent, and tireless? Secretary, Brother a Stella from the Star, who had committed himself to the service of God—since we had completely lost our Administrator, he appointed this zealous Brother ab Aquila imperiali from the Imperial Eagle as his Vicarium Administrationis Vicar of Administration. No report, no inquiry, no reward that one of our †† requested became burdensome to him; it was a favorite occupation of his to provide for our province. His own dignity proves in this matter what convinces us of his special love. I call upon you personally: has he not showered each of us with friendship and goodwill? Was he not minded toward everyone like a loving father? How readily he found himself introduced to our Most Reverend and Illustrious Protector, a Zelo flagranti in Jure with burning zeal in law? How difficult it became for him to fulfill those tasks for my Most Reverend Brothers without orders, but before he Father could perform it at that glory, with what outstanding pleasure he did this. How will the Most Reverend and Illustrious Protector preserve his cares and memory, how he concluded the great cause with the deepest emotion, and solemnly closed his work upon us.