The Lives of the Northern Saints (Cistercian Fathers, #71)

by Aelred of Rievaulx

Jane Patricia Freeland (Translator) and Marsha L Dutton (Introduction)

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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-on their journey to the heavenly Jerusalem. Through his eyes we see Ninian, the Irishman who evangelized Scotland, and the saints of Hexham itself. And we learn of human weakness and retribution in 'A Certain Wonderful Miracle'.
  • ISBN10 087907471X
  • ISBN13 9780879074715
  • Publish Date 1 December 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Liturgical Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 152
  • Language English