The Lives of the Northern Saints by Aelred of Rievaulx

The Lives of the Northern Saints

Cistercian Fathers

Aelred of Rievaulx with Jane Patricia Freeland (Translator)

144 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography medium-paced
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A saintly twelfth-century abbot, born to a family of hereditary priests family in Hexham, Northumbria, and raised at the Scottish royal court, recounts the deeds of his saintly forebears in the North. He tells of flawed and foolish men--and women-...

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