Complex sentence: Having explained his experience to his parish priest, the woodcutter was referred to the Bishop of Brixen, who near St. Pankratius's day in the year 1409 granted permission for the chapel to be built.
Split into simpler sentences: Having explained his experience to his parish priest, the woodcutter was referred to the Bishop of Brixen. Before St. Pankratius's day in the year 1409, the Bishop granted permission for the chapel to be built.