Abelard and Heloise.(a letter from Abbot Peter the Venerable)(Brief Article)

National Catholic Reporter | September 17, 1999| | Copyright

There are many, many beautiful letters contained in Christian history, but, for me, the most moving is the letter that Peter the Venerable wrote to Heloise, Abbess of the Paraclete upon the death of her husband, the monk and scholar Peter Abelard. Heloise had been the most brilliant student of the famous (and arrogant) Parisian scholar Abelard. They had had a passionate affair, secretly married and had a child, Astrolabe. Alas, their love was fraught with tragedy, and both, for different reasons, were forced to take the habit.

When Abelard died, Abbot Peter the ...

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