Gerbert then cancelled a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but when he read mass in the church Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ("Holy Cross of Jerusalem") in Rome, he became sick soon afterwards and, dying, he asked his cardinals to cut up his body and scatter it across the city.
Gerbert potom zrušil cestu do Jeruzalema, ale keď slúžil omšu v kostole svätej Márie Jeruzalemskej (tiež nazývaný „Jeruzalemský kostol“) v Ríme, čoskoro ochorel a keď zomieral, požiadal svojich kardinálov, aby rozrezali jeho telo a rozhádzali ho po meste.