Epitaph 7

DIGNITATE DOCTRINA

ET VIRTVTE ORNATISS:

VIR DN. M. PANCRATIVS

KRETSCHMERVS, DVM PA=

TRIAE LABORANTI FIDELITER

OPERAM NAVAT EHEV, PES=

TE CORRIPITVR, ET CVM

LVCTV BONORVM OMNI=

VM E VITA MIGRAVIT ANNO

CHRIS. M.DC.XXV OCTOBR.

DIE XXII MVNERIS SENATO

RII XXXXV. GESTI CONSV=

LATVS XX. AETATIS LXXVIII.

PROV. 10:

DAS GEDECHTNIS DER GERECHTEN

BLEIBET IM SEHGEN, ABER DER GOT

LOSEN NAMEN WIRDT VORWEHSEN

Decorated with dignity

of education and virtue

Magister Pancratius

Kretschmer, since he served

His homeland faithfully,

to protect it,

he fell victim to the plague and died,

to the grief of all good people

in the year of our Lord 1625

on 22th October

He was a senator,

for 45 years a town councillor,

for 20 years a mayor, he was 78 years of age.

Book of Proverbs. 10

The name of the righteous is used in blessings,
 but the name of the wicked will rot.

Text of the inscription is carved in majuscule with concave letters.

Location:

Outside the southern aisle of the church, to the east from the wall of the chapel. Rectangular sandstone plaque, currently mounted in the church wall. Above the inscription is a skull with shinbones. Beneath the inscription, in an oval, is a coat of arms (worn away): in a shield a chessboard with a half deer figure turned to the right; above it a helmet with mantling and a crest shaped as a half deer figure.

Pancratius Kretchmer was born in 1547 in Cunnersdord and died in 1625 in Jelenia Góra. He studied theology in Złotoryja and Lipsk and in 1605-1625 was a mayor of Jelenia Góra. He belonged to a wealthy and ancient patrician family of Jelenia Góra.