Keeping accounts on baptisms, weddings and funerals was one of the main businesses of the ecclesiastical administration; the registers they kept still provide an important source of personal data for researchers today.
I have never seen the funeral register of the Augustinian church with my own eyes. Nevertheless, there is no doubt about its existence. In regard to the narrative, only a certain section of the register was relevant. I then fabricated the excerpt enabling access to the next piece of information for Marianne. For literary and historical purposes, that seemed to me a lesser bad than to fabricate the physical parameters of the register itself. The fictional Brother Aloïs functions here as the intermediary. The content of the excerpt, however, is historically correct. By 1757, the persons listed in the chapter had indeed been buried in the crypt and, logically, the corresponding entries must have been made in the register, including the name of Eleonora, Princess of Schwarzenberg. Despite the inscription, her body had been buried elsewhere – a fact which impels Marianne to scrutinise the irregularity.
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