Biographical portrait of St. Aelred of Rievaulx.

Short biography, by Karen Rae Keck.

Highlights St. Aelred's championship of friendship. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.

Cistercian abbot, called "the English St. Bernard," homilist, spiritual writer, d. 1166 or 1167. Variants on the saint's name include Ailred, Aethelred, and Ethelred.

Short biography.

An edited version of the entry for Aelred in S. Baring-Gould's "The Lives of the Saints."