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Created on 2007-06-08 16:18:29 (#13118912), last updated 2007-11-17
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Basic Info| Name: | Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd |
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| Location: | California, United States |
BioIf any pilgrim shall come from distant parts with wish to dwell in the monastery, and will be content with the customs of the place, and does not by his lavishness disturb the monastery but is simply content, he shall be received for as long as he wishes.
If, indeed, he shall find fault with anything, and shall expose the matter reasonably and with the humility of charity, the Abbott shall discuss it with him prudently lest perchance God hath sent him for this very thing.
But, if he shall have been found contumacious during his sojourn in the monastery, then it shall be said to him, firmly, that he must depart. If he will not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him.*
Cadfael is one such "stout monk".
From the Wikipdeia entry on Cadfael...
A Welsh monk in an English monastery
Cadfael is a Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, the county town of the English county of Shropshire. Cadfael himself is a Welshman; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd and he was born around 1080 to a villein (serf) family in Trefriw, in Gwynedd (northern Wales).
The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil war between the forces of King Stephen and Empress Maud. Several true historical events are described or referred to in the books. For example, the translation of Saint Winefride to Shrewsbury Abbey is fictionalised in the first chronicle, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and the siege of Shrewsbury by Stephen in 1138 forms the setting for One Corpse Too Many.
"Orare est laborare, laborare est orare"
("To pray is to work, to work is to pray").
Cadfael's day goes a little something like this. I say "a little" because he's usually late, particularly for Vespers, due to this or that person or thing needing healing or investigating. To make a long story short, too late, and this is a horrible over simplification of the matter; he says a prayer at least once every three hours.
[[This journal is not associated with Ellis Peters, Edith Pargeter, the BBC, or Sir Derek Jacobi, or any monastic order following the Rule of St. Benedict. This journal is for role playing perposes only and generates no revenue.
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being welsh, eastern cultures, herbalism, herbs, medicine, monastic life, prayer, progressive views, solving crime, speaking welsh, theology, work
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