Josta fretted. “I don’t think this punishment is going to work.” “Has Arnald’s family had any better luck?” Solomon asked. “I spoke to his mother, Maria, Friday before the Sabbath started,” Josta said. “He hadn’t confessed to anything yet. He won’t say where he met Belide or why they were out. Ma...
9 Kalends June (May 24), 1146; 24 Sivan 4907. Feast of Saint Manahen, milk brother of Herod the great, converted by Saint Luke. Douce amie o le vis cler, or ne vous ai u quester ainc Diu ne fist ce regné ne par terre ne par mer, se t ’i quidoie trover, ne t ’i quesisce. Sweet love, of bright ...
The cusp of dawn, Saturday, May 2, 1142; The Feast of Saint Athanasius, stubborn bishop and exile. … et simul imbres cadant, flumina increscant, maria sedibus suis excita procurrant et omnia uno agmine ad exitum humani generis incumbant. … and at the same time the rains will fall, the rivers ...
Thursday, 15 kalends April (March 18), 1148. Eventually the feast of Saint Idesbaud, almoner of Countess Sybil of Flanders and abbot of Dunes, whose body was found whole and fresh 457 years after his death. De perquirenda vero pecunia, quam nobis in usus quotidianos penecessariam vestra prudentia...
Wednesday, 16 kalends July (June 16), 1143. Commemoration of Saint Julitte, martyred for being Christian, and her son, Cyrus, age three, martyred for kicking the Roman governor in the stomach. Est in Northanhymbrorum provincia, haud procul a Tine flumine, ad austrum site, villa quœdam, nunc q...
Monday, 2 nones May (May 6), 1146; 22 Iyyar, 4906. The feast of Saint John at the Latin Gate. Magisterium habetis in matre quod omnia vobis sufficere … que non solum Latine, verum eciam tam Ebraice quam Grece non expers litterature … You have in your mother all the master that you need, w...