The Restoration of the Monastery of St. Martin of Tournai

by Herman of Tournai and Herman

Book Overview

In Flanders in the year 1090, as famine began to spread over the low countries, diseased and dying paupers from near and far crowded into the cathedral of St. Mary of Tournai in hopes of a miraculous cure. When the canons of Tournai ordered that those without hope of survival be dragged outside, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the restoration of the abandoned monastery of St. Martin of Tournai. Some fifty years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813208513
• ISBN13: 9780813208510
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"