The Difficult Saint: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
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, who is not only learned in Latin, but also Hebrew and Greek. —Peter Abelard Letter Nine To the nuns of the Paraclete Abbess Heloise was in her room writing. She had intended to work on her weekly talk to the nuns, this one an explication of a particularly obscure phrase in Isaiah. Instead she found herself opening again the casket containing the letters from her once-husband, Peter Abelard, along with copies of her replies. Peter was dead now. They had sent his body home to her, acknowledging that no one had more right to it. The letters were all she had left, all that proved that his love for her hadn’t died when he became a monk. Over and over she read them, even when she vowed not to, for the pain of loss was as great as the joy of memory and both fought to control her soul.
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