The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
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Michael Fairless, author of The Roadmender, wrote The Gathering of Brother Hilarius. The preface says the road of life, the common road of men, runs through the little book, the white highway that Hilarius watched from the monastery gate and Brother Ambrose saw nearing its end in the Jerusalem of his heart. The preface adds that the book may be read as a romance of the Black Death and a monk with an artist's eyes, but that for the author it is a romance of the Image of God.
The text shows Hilarius crimsoned with shame and horror, his voice trembling somewhat as he calls out Woman, art thou not shamed to deck thyself in this devil's guise? The text says none of the three ever saw St Edmund's Abbey again, for in one short month the minster with its sister churches was turned to be a spital-house, while the dead lay in heaps.
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- Author
- Michael Fairless
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Pages
- 65
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classics
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