Heresy: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
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 non ignorat, vos rogamus, et quanta possumus precum instantia petimus. Since Your Prudence is not unaware of the constant need for money, that it is essential for our daily needs, we ask for as much as possible and we request it at once. Louis VII, letter to Abbot Suger, written from Constantinople, 1147 “I’ve never seen a place so crowded in all my life!” Annora exclaimed. She was hanging out of the window of the guest house of the convent, craning her neck right and left. Her blond braids swung and bounced against the stone wall. Below them in the streets of Reims there were constant processions of clerics, bishops and abbots with their retinues. As they passed, laypeople tried to move out of their way, but there was no place to go.
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