Ailred Ninth Centenary

Ninth Centenary of St. Ailred of Rievaulx

Cistercian Publications

Series - Aelred of Rievaulx (1109-1178)

"Son of the last of a line of hereditary priests, Aelred was educated apparently at the cathedral school at Durham and then in the court of David I of Scotland. On a visit south, he visited a new abbey of white monks in Yorkshire. '. . . whether his decision was long-pondered or pauline in its suddenness, Aelred's entry into monastic life on that day in 1134 was the defining act of his life. . . Whatever Aelred gave up to become a monk, he never forgot what he had learned in and about the world. The reputation his diplomatic abilities gained for Rielvaulx as he acted in affairs of Church and crown over the next thirty years contributed to the renown and prosperity not only of that house but of the Cistercian Order in England.'"

—Marsha Dutton, Introduction to Walter Daniel: The Life of Aelred

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Aelred of Rievaulx
A Study
Aelred Squire
A pioneer Aelred scholar, the late Aelred Squire introduces readers to `the English Saint Bernard' by chronicling his life, his monastic treatises on the spiritual life, and the historical and hagiographical works he wrote for those outside the clois...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-950-9
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Aelred of Rievaulx
Dialogue on the Soul
Translated by CH Talbot
An abbot and a disciple discuss the soul in practical as well as theoretical terms: what is it, how is it transmitted, how does it relate to the human body, how can it be restored to the image of God to which it was created?

ISBN: 978-0-87907-222-3
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Aelred of Rievaulx
Lives of the Northern Saints
Translated by Jane Patricia Freeland, Introduction and annotations by Marsha L. Dutton
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 t...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-471-5
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Aelred of Rievaulx
Mirror of Charity
Translated by Elizabeth Connor OCSO, Introduction and notes by Charles Dumont OCSO
Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him. His own experience of human weakness in a worldly life at the court of King David of Scotland made him sensitive to the doctrine of charity which he foun...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-717-4
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Aelred of Rievaulx
Mirror of Charity and Spiritual Friendship
Mirror of Charity translated by Elizabeth Connor OCSO, Introduction and notes by Charles Dumont OCSO; Spiritual Friendship translated by M. Eugenia Laker SSND
Mirror of Charity Translated by Elizabeth Connor OCSO, Introduction and notes by Charles Dumont OCSO Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him. His own experience of human weakness in a worldl...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-075-5
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Aelred of Rievaulx
Spiritual Friendship
Translated by M. Eugenia Laker SSND
Throughout his life, Aelred took great joy in his friends and he believed that by loving and being loved by them, we learn to accept and return God's infinitely greater and enduring love. Real friendship always includes a third person, the Lord Jesus...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-705-1
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Aelred of Rievaulx
The Historical Works
Marsha L. Dutton, Editor; Jane Patricia Freeland, Translator; With an introduction and annotations by Marsha L. Dutton
Aelred of Rievaulx was an heir of Saxons living under Norman rule, a native speaker of English daily speaking French and Latin, a descendant of generations of married priests in an age when priests were forbidden to wed, an English monk in a French o...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-288-9
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Aelred of Rievaulx
The Liturgical Sermons I
The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent—All Saints
Aelred of Rievaulx; Translated by Theodore Berkeley
During his twenty years as abbot of the Yorkshire monastery of Rievaulx, Aelred preached many sermons: to his own monks, in other monasteries, and at significant gatherings outside the cloister. His disciple and biographer, Walter Daniel, mentions hu...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-258-2
ISBN: 978-0-87907-458-6

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Aelred of Rievaulx
Treatises and Pastoral Prayer
On Jesus at the Age of Twelve; Rule for a Recluse; The Pastoral Prayer
Aelred of Rievaulx; Introduction by David Knowles
Meditation on Christ's humanity and a letter of instruction on a disciplined spiritual life for his sister epitomize Aelred's gentle spirituality. His pastoral prayer reflects a man conscious that he is accountable to God for the souls of others.

ISBN: 978-0-87907-702-0
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The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx
And the Letter to Maurice
Walter Daniel; Translated by F. M. Powicke and Jane Patricia Freeland; Introduction by Marsha Dutton
Walter Daniel knew Aelred well and attended him on his deathbed in 1167. He remembered, and portrayed, him as abbot, counsellor, and friend. Contemporaries who had known him as a public figure so immediately criticized the Life that Walter was driven...

ISBN: 978-0-87907-257-5
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