Spiritual Friendship

ISBN-13: 9781607241935 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 146 str.

Mary Laker SSND;Douglass Roby;Aelred of Rievaulx

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Aelred of Rievaulx was born in the borderlands of Northumbria was raised at the royal court of Scotland. While traveling in King David’s service in 1134, the restless young man visited Rievaulx, a new foundation of the Cistercian monks in Yorkshire. The next day he returned to become a monk, and thirteen years later became abbot. In this second volume on spiritual friendship, written near the end of his life, Aelred completes his early treatise and shares his mature experience of the love of his companions and the love of God.