Complaints of monks against representatives of secular authority in medieval writings can be encountered quite often. However, they are rarely accompanied by a reflection on the shaping of relations between monks and their environment, in particular with those in power. Meanwhile, this issue, in one of his works preserved in manuscript form, was taken up by Ludolf, abbot of the Sagan monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine. The paper will characterize this original work, written around 1412. In it, Ludolf even compares monks to martyrs. According to him, the divine origin of the monks was supposed to make them survive through the centuries despite various oppositions and persecutions from “kings, chiefs, princes, knights, vassals.” Ludolph showing them quotes an otherwise well-known poem De miseria monachorum (Abbas Portensis...).