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On an expedition to acquire a saint's remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder It is 1137, and the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saint's final resting place in Wales, where he finds the villagers divided over the Benedictines' quest. When the leading opponent to moving the grave is shot dead with a mysterious arrow, some believe Winifred herself delivered the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that an earthly hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to root out a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the waves of sin may be scandal-or his own ruin.… (más)
Primera novela del padre Cadfael. Los frailes van en busca del cadaver de una Santa y encuentran algún otro cadaver QUien y porqué lo mataron? la traducción floja, vere si el próximo lo leo en inglés para juzgar mejor a la autora ( )
Fray Cadfael, que en su juventud fue a las Cruzadas y vivió multitud de aventuras, vive ahora retirado en la abadía benedictina de Shrewsbury, cerca de Gales. Gran conocedor de las plantas y sus propiedades, y experto en la preparación de remedios con las mismas, es el encargado del herbario y del huerto. Hombre inteligente, observador y dotado de un gran sentido común, tendrá que utilizar todas estas cualidades para resolver los casos que se le presentan. El ambicioso prior Roberto decide hacerse con las reliquias de santa Winifreda, que reposan en el pequeño pueblo galés de Gwytherin, pese a la oposición de los habitantes del mismo. Es entonces cuando se produce un terrible crimen y la experiencia mundana de fray Cadfael adquiere una importancia vital a la hora de resolver el misterio.
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On the fine, bright morning in early May when the whole sensational affair of the Gwytherin relics may properly be considered to have begun, Brother Cadfael had been up long before Prime, pricking out cabbage seedlings before the day was aired, and his thoughts were all on birth, growth and fertility, not at all on graves and reliquaries and violent deaths, whether of saints, sinners or ordinary decent, fallible men like himself.
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“When I want to hear my echo,” said Brother Cadfael, “I will at least speak first.”
“God resolves all given time,” said Cai philosophically and trudged away into the darkness. And Cadfael returned along the path with the uncomfortable feeling that God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
Great darkness and constant, feeble light, the slow flowing of time from far beyond his conception to far beyond his power to follow, the solitude about him and the troubled and peopled world within, all these settled into their perpetual pattern, a steady rhythm as perfect as sleep.
“Both men and women partake of the same human nature, Huw. We both bleed when we're wounded. That's a poor, silly woman, true, but we can show plenty of poor, silly men. There are women as strong as any of us, and as able.”
He made a mistake, and there should be provision for everybody to make one fresh start.
Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags.
“It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.”
“When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.”
Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
... virtually senile but doctrinally safe ... had the capacious if capricious memory of the very old
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His bed-fellow won't grudge him a leaf or two from her garland!
On an expedition to acquire a saint's remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder It is 1137, and the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saint's final resting place in Wales, where he finds the villagers divided over the Benedictines' quest. When the leading opponent to moving the grave is shot dead with a mysterious arrow, some believe Winifred herself delivered the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that an earthly hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to root out a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the waves of sin may be scandal-or his own ruin.
la traducción floja, vere si el próximo lo leo en inglés para juzgar mejor a la autora ( )