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St.
Aelred of Rievaulx (Icon)
by Robert Lentz
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Aelred
lived in northern Britain at the time when Norman cultural values were
displacing more ancient Celtic ways. He was himself most likely a Celt,
and was the son of a married priest.
As a young man he was taken into the service of King David of Scotland.
Intimate male friendship was common in old Celtic culture and Aelred
became the closest of friends with the King’s son and stepsons.
At 24 he left the court and became a monk at the Cistercian abbey of
Rievaulx. The Cistercians were reformers of western Christian
monasticism, who stressed simplicity and the contemplative life.
Their order was newly founded when Aelred joined and he is counted as
one of the first Cistercian mystical theologians.
Aelred was abbot of Rievaulx by the time he was 38 years old. The abbey
swelled to 600 monks, largely because of his reputation as a wise and
gentle leader.
According to a biographer of his time, "He did not treat them with the
pedantic imbecility habitual in some silly abbots who, if a monk takes
a brother's’ hand in his own or says something they do not like, demand
his cowl, strip and expel him."
Aelred encouraged his monks to be friends and was himself a close
friend to a monk named Simon. When Aelred lay dying, monks sat all over
his bed and "talked with him," says his biographer, "as a little child
prattles with it’s mother."
Although Latin was the common language for monastic prayer, with his
last breath he called on God to hasten, "for Crist Luve."
Aelred has been called the patron saint of friendship. He wrote a
treatise called Spiritual Friendship, in which he says, "...what is
true of charity I surely do not hesitate to grant friendship, since he
that abides in friendship abides in God, and God in him."
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