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|name=Aelred of Rievaulx |birth_date=1110 |birth_place=Hexham, Northumberland, England |death_date=12 January {{death year and age|1167|1110}} |death_place=Rievaulx, Yorkshire, England |resting_place=Rievaulx chapter house next to William, first abbot |feast_day=12 January |venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion |image=De Speculo Caritatis.jpeg |imagesize= |caption= |titles=Abbot |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |attributes=Abbot holding a book |patronage=bladder stone sufferers |major_shrine=Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, England (destroyed) |suppressed_date= |issues= |prayer= |prayer_attrib= }} Aelred of Rievaulx ({{lang-la|Aelredus Riaevallensis}}); also Ailred, Ælred, and Æthelred; (1110 – 12 January 1167) was an English Cistercian monk, abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his death, and known as a writer. He is regarded by Anglicans, Catholics, and other Christians as a saint. LifeAelred was born in Hexham, Northumbria, in 1110,[1] one of three sons of Eilaf, priest of St Andrew's at Hexham, himself a son of another Eilaf, treasurer of Durham.[2] In 1095, the Council of Claremont had forbidden the ordination of the sons of priests. This was done in part to end the inheritance of benefices.[3] He may have been partially educated by Lawrence of Durham, who sent him a hagiography of Saint Brigid. Aelred's early education was probably at the cathedral school at Durham. It was here that Aelred was influenced early on by Cicero's Laelius de Amicitia, but later modified his interpretation upon reading Augustine of Hippo's Confessions.[4] Aelred spent several years at the court of King David I of Scotland in Roxburgh, possibly from the age of 14,[4] rising to the rank of echonomus[5] (often translated "steward" or "Master of the Household") before leaving the court at age twenty-four (in 1134) to enter the Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx in Yorkshire.[6] In 1138, when Rievaulx's patron, Walter Espec, was to surrender his castle at Wark to King David of Scotland, Aelred reportedly accompanied Abbot William of Rievaulx to the Scottish border to negotiate the transfer.[7] He saw that his reluctance to part from his friends at court, delayed his adopting his monastic calling. For Aelred, the source and object of true friendship is Christ.[4] In 1142 Aelred traveled to Rome, alongside Walter of London, Archdeacon of York, to represent before Pope Innocent II the northern prelates who opposed the election of Henry de Sully, nephew of King Stephen as archbishop of York. The result of the journey was that Aelred brought back a letter from Pope Innocent summoning the superiors whom Aelred represented to appear in Rome the following March to make their deposition in the required canonical form. The resulting negotiations dragged on for many years.[8] Upon his return from Rome, Aelred became novice master at Rievaulx.[9] In 1143, he was appointed abbot of the new Revesby Abbey, a daughter house of Rievaulx in Lincolnshire. In 1147, he was elected abbot of Rievaulx itself,[10] a position he was to hold until his death. Under his administration, the abbey is said to have grown to some 140 monks and 500 conversi and laymen.[11] His role as abbot required him to travel. Cistercian abbots were expected to make annual visitations to daughter-houses, and Rievaulx had five in England and Scotland by the time Aelred held office.[12] Moreover, Aelred had to make the long sea journey to the annual general chapter of the Order at Cîteaux in France.[13] Alongside his role as a monk and later abbot, Aelred was involved throughout his life in political affairs. The fourteenth-century version of the Peterborough Chronicle states that Aelred's efforts during the twelfth-century papal schism brought about Henry II's decisive support for the Cistercian candidate, resulting in 1161 in the formal recognition of Pope Alexander III.[14] Aelred wrote several influential books on spirituality, among them Speculum caritatis ("The Mirror of Charity," reportedly written at the request of Bernard of Clairvaux) and De spiritali amicitia ("On Spiritual Friendship").[15] In De spirituali amicitiâ, Aelred adopted Cicero's dialogue format. The Prologue begins with the speaker describing his time at school, where "the charm of my companions gave me the greatest pleasure. Among the usual faults that often endanger youth, my mind surrendered wholly to affection and became devoted to love. Nothing seemed sweeter to me, nothing more pleasant, nothing more valuable than to be loved and to love."[16] In this, Aelred mirrors Augustine's description of his own early adolescence. "For I even burnt in my youth heretofore, to be satiated in things below; and I dared to grow wild again, with these various and shadowy loves: my beauty consumed away, …pleasing myself, and desirous to please in the eyes of men. And what was it that I delighted in, but to love, and be loved?"[17] He also wrote seven works of history, addressing three of them to Henry II of England, advising him how to be a good king and declaring him to be the true descendant of Anglo-Saxon kings. In his later years, he is thought to have suffered from the kidney stones and arthritis.[18] Walter reports that in 1157 the Cistercian General Council allowed him to sleep and eat in Rievaulx's infirmary; later he lived in a nearby building constructed for him. Aelred died in the winter of 1166–7, probably on 12 January 1167[19] at Rievaulx. Posthumous reputationAelred was never formally canonised in the manner that was later established, but he became the center of a cult in the north of England that was officially recognized by Cistercians in 1476.[20] As such, he was venerated as a saint, with his body kept at Rievaulx. In the sixteenth century, before the dissolution of the monastery, John Leland, claims he saw Aelred's shrine at Rievaulx containing Aelred's body glittering with gold and silver.[21] Today, Aelred of Rievaulx is listed as a saint on 12 January, the traditional date of his death, in the latest official edition of the Roman Martyrology,[22] which expresses the official position of the Roman Catholic Church. He also appears in the calendars of various other Christian denominations. Much of Aelred's history is known because of the Life written about him by Walter Daniel shortly after his death. Until the twentieth century, Aelred was generally known as a historian rather than as a spiritual writer; for many centuries his most famous work was his Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor. HomosexualityMost historians now accept that Aelred was homosexual, drawing upon his work, private letters, and Vita by Walter Daniel (a contemporary at Rievaulx Abbey).[23][24] Boswell says there is no doubt he was gay and in particular, his work De spiritali amicitia ("On Spiritual Friendship") reveals a conscious homosexual orientation, and has been described as "giving love between persons of the same gender its most profound expression in Christian theology".[25] According to James Neill, Aelred fell in love with a fellow monk called Simon and stayed devoted to him until the latter's death.[26] Baring-Gould says that Aelred was "much edified with the very looks of a holy monk, called Simon." Having renounced high birth and fortune for the monastic life, the monk was a "lover of silence" always recollected in God, and rarely spoke. "The very sight of his humility stifled my pride and made me blush at the want of the mortification in my looks." According to Baring-Gould, "this holy monk, having served God eight years in perfect fidelity, died in 1142, in wonderful peace..."[27] He confessed in De institutione inclusarum that for a while he surrendered himself to lust, "a cloud of desire arose from the lower drives of the flesh and the gushing spring of adolescence" and "the sweetness of love and impurity of lust combined to take advantage of the inexperience of my youth." He also refers directly to the relationship of Jesus and John the Apostle as a "marriage" (implying a strong homo-social or even homo-erotic reading) and held it out as an example sanctioning close friendships between monks and clergy.[28] Brian Patrick McGuire portrays Aelred as attracted to other males, but concludes that "...his sexual identity remains uncertain". Marsha Dutton says that, in the end, "...there is no way of knowing the details of Aelred's life, much less his sexual experience or struggles."[29]His works exhorted chastity among the unmarried and widowed, and fidelity within marriage - condemning sexual relationships and activity outside marriage as sinful.[30] Several gay-friendly organizations have adopted Aelred as their patron saint, including Integrity USA[31] in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the National Anglican Catholic Church in the northeast United States, and the Order of St. Aelred in the Philippines.[32] PatronageA high school named after St. Aelred (the more modern spelling of his name) in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, in the United Kingdom, closed in 2011; a primary school in York is named for him. Formerly there was also a high school on Gleniffer Road in Glenburn, Paisley, named after St Aelred. WritingsFor his efforts in writing and administration Aelred was called by David Knowles the "St. Bernard of the North." Knowles, a historian of monasticism in England, also described him as "a singularly attractive figure," saying that "No other English monk of the twelfth century so lingers in the memory."[33] All of Aelred's works have appeared in translation, most in English and in French; the remaining three volumes of his sermons are being translated into English and will appear from Cistercian Publications in 2018–2020. There are already available in French in a five volume edition. Extant works[34] by Aelred include:
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Notes1. ^Thurston, Herbert. "St. Ælred." "The Catholic Encyclopedia," vol. 1 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907). 20 September 2012 2. ^Bell, "Ailred of Rievaulx (1110–1167)" 3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=y7iJZf99CTgC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=Council+of+Clermont+%2B+ordination+of+priests+sons&source=bl&ots=ablhkROtkt&sig=eKJekyuGi6P29ETHbLqgYk1b958&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHxLqs2bffAhWHTt8KHRfQDgkQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Council%20of%20Clermont%20%2B%20ordination%20of%20priests%20sons&f=false Davies, John Reuben. "Aspects of Church Reform in Wales, c.1093 -c.1223", Anglo-Norman Studies XXX, (C. P. Lewis, ed.), Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008, {{ISBN|9781843833796}}, p. 93] 4. ^It is unclear exactly when Aelred joined King David's court. However, David became king in 1124, when Aelred was 14, and in his lament for David Aelred says he had known David "from the beginning of his age," which might well imply that Aelred had been at the court from around 1124. See Aelred Squire, OP, Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study (London: SPCK, 1969), p12. 5. ^See Walter Daniel, Vita A, ca. 2. (p91 of Cistercian Fathers translation) 6. ^'"The Lives of the Saints," Rev. S. Baring-Gould, 1:178 (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914) 7. ^Marsha L Dutton, 'Introduction,' in Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, Cistercian Fathers series 5 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2010), p16; Aelred Squire, OP, Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study (London: SPCK, 1969), p24. 8. ^Marsha L Dutton, 'Introduction,' in Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, Cistercian Fathers series 5 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2010), p16; Aelred Squire, OP, Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study (London: SPCK, 1969), p24. 9. ^Aelred Squire, OP, Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study, (London: SPCK, 1969), p53. 10. ^"Saint Aelred of Rievaulx", Encyclopedia Britannica. Online at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Aelred-of-Rievaulx 11. ^Walteri Danielis Vita Ailredi Abbatis Rievall', ed. F. M. Powicke, (London, 1959), ca. 30. 12. ^Some evidence of these journeys remains. For instance, Walter Daniel records a visitation that Aelred made to Dundrennan. Aelred Squire, OP, Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study (London: SPCK, 1969), 65 13. ^It was probably during one of these journeys that he delivered the sermon titled as "To the Synod at Troyes." 14. ^Marsha L Dutton, "Introduction," in Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, Cistercian Fathers series 5 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2010), p17. 15. ^On the use of spiritali" instead of spirituali, see Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, transl. by L. Braceland Cistercian Fathers series 5 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2010), 25. 16. ^[https://www.cistercianpublications.org/Products/GetSample/CF005P/9780879079703 Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, (Lawrence C. Braceland, tr.), Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-87907-957-4}}, p. 53] 17. ^[https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/augconf/aug02.htm The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Book 2, (Edward Bouverie Pusey, tr.) at sacred-texts.com] 18. ^Walter Daniel, "Vita Aelredi" 19. ^This is the traditional date for his feast within the Cistercian Order, as celebrated on the authority of Walter Daniel, Vita A, ca. 57. 20. ^The entry on Aelred in the 1905 New International Encyclopedia states incorrectly that Aelred was canonized in 1191 ({{Cite NIE|title=Ailred|url=https://archive.org/stream/newinternational01gilm#page/231/mode/1up|year=1905}}). For correct information, see David N. Bell, 'Ailred of Rievaulx (1110–1167),' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Aug 2013 21. ^Aelred Squire, OP, Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study (London: SPCK, 1969), p2. 22. ^ Martyrologium Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum auctoritate Ioannis Pauli Pp. II promulgatum, editio [typica] altera, Typis Vaticanis, A.D. MMIV (2004), p. 96. 23. ^James Neill, The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies, 2009, p335 24. ^Sommerfeldt 2005, pp. 8–9; See also Boswell 1980, McGuire 1994, and Roden 2002. 25. ^"Saint Aelred of Rievaulx", Encyclopedia Britannica. Online at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Aelred-of-Rievaulx#ref42010 which explores the relation between spiritual and human friendship in a monastic context.ref>American Council of Learned Societies: Dictionary of the Middle Ages, volume 4. 26. ^James Neill, The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies, 2009, p335 27. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3hJAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=sabine+baring-gould+on+Aelred&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEt_T-z7ffAhXuRd8KHWUQChYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=sabine%20baring-gould%20on%20Aelred&f=false Baring-Gould, Sabine. "S. Aelred, Ab. of Rievaulx", Lives of the Saints, London, John Hidges, 1877, p. 176] {{PD-notice}} 28. ^Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, 2006, p. 180 29. ^Sommerfeldt, John R., Aelred of Rievaulx: Pursuing Perfect Happiness. Intro., New York, The Newman Press. 2005. p. 9, {{ISBN|9780809142613}} 30. ^1 2 Houston, James M., "Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167, Friend and Counselor", Knowing & Doing, February 2007 31. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.sacredpauses.com/saint-aelred-the-patron-saint-of-integrity |title=Saint Aelred -the Patron Saint of Integrity |publisher=Sacredpauses.com |date=14 January 1988 |accessdate=20 March 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209133338/http://www.sacredpauses.com/saint-aelred-the-patron-saint-of-integrity/ |archivedate=9 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }} 32. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/staelredmonasterymanila/ |title=The Order of St Aelred (O.S.Ae) |publisher=Webcitation.org |date= |accessdate=20 March 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5kmDcKliO?url=http://www.geocities.com/staelredmonasterymanila/ |archivedate=25 October 2009 |df=dmy }} 33. ^Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, 3rd edition (New York:Penguin Books, 1995). {{ISBN|0-14-051312-4}}. 34. ^Some of Aelred's works have apparently not survived, including his letters and his poetic eulogy to St. Cuthbert. The Rievaulx library catalogue also lists an otherwise unknown De fasciculo frondium, and Walter Daniel notes that he composed a liturgical homily on Luke 11:33 to be read on the feast day of St Edward the Confessor; Peter Jackson has identified and published what he believes to be that sermon (In translacione sancti Edwardi Confessoris: The Lost Sermon by Aelred of Rievaulx?," "Cistercian Studies Quarterly" 40 (2005): 45–82). See David N. Bell, ‘Ailred of Rievaulx (1110–1167),’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Aug 2013 35. ^King David died on 24 May 1153. 36. ^This seems to be a sermon that Aelred preached at Hexham on 3 March 1155, when the relics of five former bishops of Hexham were translated to new shrines. 37. ^Marsha L Dutton, 'Introduction,' in Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, transl.. Lawrence Braceland, Cistercian Fathers series 5 (Collegeville, MI, 2010), p21-2 References
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