Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of la Ramee, Arnulf, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut (Brepols Medieval Women Series)
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Martinus Cawley (Contributor) Barbara Newman (Contributor)
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In the early thirteenth century, the diocese of Liege witnessed an extraordinary religious revival, known to us largely through the abundant corpus of saints' lives from that region. Cistercian monks and nuns, along with beguines and recluses, formed close-knit networks of spiritual friendship that easily crossed the boundaries of gender, religious status, and even language. Holy women such as Mary of Oignies and Christina the Astonishing were held up by their biographers as models of orthodoxy and miraculous powers. Less familiar but no less fascinating are the male saints of the region. In this volume, Martinus Cawley has translated a trilogy of Cistercian lives composed by the same hagiographer, Goswin, who was a monk and cantor at the celebrated abbey of Villers in Brabant. Although all three of these saints were connected with the same order, their versions of holiness represent a study in contrasts, from the compassionate nun Ida of Nivelles, remarkable for her Eucharistic raptures, to the fiercely ascetic lay brother Arnulf, to the gentle monk Abundus, renowned for his deep liturgical and Marian piety. The title Send Me God derives from a revealing catchphrase that devout men and women used to request prayers from their spiritual friends.
Send Me God is published as part of the Brepols Medieval Women Series. 3 Halftones, black and white
About the Author
Martinus Cawley is a member of the community of Our Lady of GuadalupeTrappist Abbey in Lafayette, Oregon.
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- Contributor: Martinus Cawley
- Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
- ISBN13: 9780271026831
- Number of Pages: 308
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x235x22mm
- Packaged Weight: 513
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Release Date: 2005-08-15
- Series: Brepols Medieval Women Series
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Martinus Cawley is a member of the community of Our Lady of GuadalupeTrappist Abbey in Lafayette, Oregon.
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