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	Brother Cadfael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cadfael is a Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, the county town of the English county of Shropshire.
		Cadfael himself is of Welsh extraction; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd and he was born around 1080 to a villein (serf) family in Trefriw, in Gwynedd (northern Wales).
		Cadfael became a monk in middle age, after going on the First Crusade as both a soldier and later, a sailor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brother_Cadfael (962 words)

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		Cadfael is called to help a guest of the Abbey, suddenly fallen ill. Immediately Cadfael recognised the signs of a poisoning, and the poison used came from his laboratory.
		Cadfael rushes on traces of the three travellers, and on the way he falls on a human shape to the bottom of a frozen stream.
		Cadfael is going to solve this enigma while avoiding that the mess doesn't splash the abbey, and while keeping intact a girl's honour.
	www.chez.com /andreys/Cadfael/english/Cad-enq.htm (1552 words)

	Ellis Peters - Brother Cadfael Series
		Brother Cadfael travels to the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin in order to acquire the relics of St. Winifred and finds himself in the middle of a bizarre mystery when the leading opponent to moving the bones is murdered.
		Cadfael accompanies the Bishop of Lichfield's representative as interpreter on a journey to the newly-revived Welsh diocese of St Asaph.
		Indeed, Cadfael did not know he had a son until by chance he met Olivier as a young man. But the bond is strong, and it is the one claim that can make Cadfael break his vows and drive him from his cloister, risking the religious way of life he so loves.
	www.bastulli.com /PetersEllis/EP_cadfael.htm (1978 words)

	Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brother Cadfael was a monk in the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul in 12th century Shrewsbury, near the Welsh Border.
		Brother Haluin, working to repair the abbey roof in treacherous snowy conditions, falls and is so badly injured that he makes what he thinks is a deathbed confession to the Abbot and (of course) Brother Cadfael.
		Cadfael's "besetting sin of curiosity" had soon got him involved and, as always, he was encouraged to take time off by Abbot Radolfus (but not by Prior Robert who, understandably enough, "considered that Cadfael was far too often allowed a degree of liberty outside the enclave that offended the prior's strict interpretation of the Rule").
	homepage.ntlworld.com /philipg/detectives/cadfael.html (6313 words)

	Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden
		Brother Cadfael is the world's best-known 12th century monk, a renowned herbalist and a clever sleuth.
		Brother Cadfael, the enthusiastic gardener and herbalist created by Ellis Peters, was renowned for his great knowledge of plants, especially the exotic varieties he had brought back from his extensive travels to the Holy Land and elsewhere.
		It describes Cadfael's work as a healer, one of his duties being to supply medicines for the infirmary, and traces a typical year in the life of this devoted herbalist.
	www.britainexpress.com /Bookstore/gardens/brothercadfael.htm (530 words)

	MYSTERY!: The Detectives: Bother Cadfael
		If there is a defining moment for the Cadfael mysteries, it may come in the Monk's Hood episode when the canny sleuth Brother Cadfael brings shocking news to the family of a healthy man who had suddenly collapsed and died at his dinner table.
		In The Sanctuary Sparrow, for instance, Cadfael carefully extracts three different specimens of herbs from the clogged nostrils and bloated lips of a corpse recently fished from a nearby stream.
		Cadfael is a Welshman who took up the sword in the First Crusade and fought his way to Jerusalem and back.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/detectives/cadfael.html (368 words)

	Cadfael on "FastFish of the North Pole" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But Cadfael, guided in part by his tender concern for a woman to whom he was once betrothed, is certain of her son's innocence.
		Brother Cadfael believes Liliwin is innocent, but finding the truth and the treasure before Liliwin's respite in sanctuary runs out may uncover a deadlier sin than thievery -- a desperate love that nothing, not even the threat of hanging can stop.
		Now Brother Cadfael is gathering clues along with his medicinals to treat a case of unholy passions, tragic politics, and perhaps devine intervention...
	www.eskimo.com /~mwirkk/castle/cadfael (3307 words)

	Book-Derived Hero System Character Adaptions - Brother Cadfael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd was born around 1080 to a villein (serf) family in Trefriw, in Gwynedd (northern Wales).
		Cadfael helped Prior Heribert escape his captors, and ended his contract with Mauduit the same day that the contested manor was ruled abbey property.
		Cadfael is also a close friend of Hugh Beringar, deputy sheriff (later sheriff) of Shropshire, has offered assistance investigating mysterious deaths, and stood as godfather to Hugh's son.
	surbrook.devermore.net /adaptionsbook/cadfael.html (1447 words)

	Mystery - Brother Cadfael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I love Brother Cadfael and his stories not only for the historical detail, but for the skillfully crafted mysteries and the development and interaction of the characters.
		Cadfael is not the only wonderful character in the books, but in the series many of the interesting characters that populate the books have been diluted and sometimes even removed.
		I've been reading the Cadfael novels since I was in high school, and I remember being very excited to hear that PBS would be broadcasting the series.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_cadfael.html (808 words)

	Chronicles of Brother Cadfael omnibus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael begin in 1137 with a trip to Gwytherin to secure a saint's bones, and end in 1145 with a trip to Coventry to ransom an imprisoned knight.
		Brother Cadfael is a monk of the Benedictine order, a former Crusader who came to his calling late in life after many years as a man-at-arms in the Holy Land.
		Cadfael relies not on technology, but on his knowledge of human nature and his keen perception, to unravel these mysteries.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cadfael.novels.htm (854 words)

	Cadfael in Exile
		Cadfael knew it was his links to the outside world - the fact that he was still very much interested in more than what occurred inside the monastery walls - that Robert could never understand and indeed regarded as a flouting of all the rules of St. Benedict.
		Cadfael's sergeant Rhys, an older man who'd joined at the same time as Cadfael and from the same village, was the only one to not scoff, though he warned Cadfael against too close an attachment to a fellow soldier, especially one of superior birth.
		Brother Cadfael is a disruptive influence on the younger brethren, and he has always taken far too much interest in the world outside of the abbey walls.
	www.yuletidetreasure.org /archive/8/cadfaelin.html (7578 words)

	Cadfael (an Episode Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cadfael has settled down to a quiet religious life at Shrewsbury Abbey after an adventurous, and far from monastic, youth, fighting as a crusader in the Holy Land.
		Cadfael goes out to try to find out what happened to him and the small traveling party he had met up with, when he finds one of them, a young nun called Sister Hilaria, raped, murdered and encased in the ice of a frozen stream.
		Cadfael investigates at the behest of the abbot, on whom political pressures are being piled from the civil war raging round England.
	epguides.com /Cadfael/guide.shtml (1497 words)

	Meet Brother Cadfael - Folklore
		The novels are set in the early part of the 12th century in the decade of the Civil War between the factions of King Stephen and the Empress Maud with shifting allegiances, intrigue, favouritism and, as always, the innocent victims caught in the crossfire.
		"Brother Cadfael had long been up 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....
		In an apparent vision to Brother Columbanus, an ardent young monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Shrewsbury, she pleads for her mortal remains to be carried to England (a country alien to her in real life) where her bones can be treated with respect and reverence.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art22981.asp (490 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Rose Rent: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael [Large Print]: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this 13th mystery in the Brother Cadfel series, a beautiful widow rents part of her estate to the brothers of Shrewsbury Abbey for the modest sum of one rose from a certain bush, per year, and all are happy with this arrangement for three years.
		But then Brother Eluric,the young monk whose job it is to deliver the rose on the day of St. Winifred's translation (the pre-arranged rent-paying day) asks to be excused from the task (he finds he's starting to fall in love with the widow); he is later found murdered near the recently ruined rose rent bush.
		Cadfael's worries are more immediate, but easing now that the crops have finally been sown and it looks as though the roses will be out by the 22nd of June, the feast of St. Winifred's translation.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0754041689 (1426 words)

	Straight Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brother Cadfael is a monk of the Abbey of Shrewsbery, England.
		If we suppose that Cadfael was about 20 years of age when he became a crusader, he would have been born around 1079.
		In the most recent episodes, we found Brother Cadfael and the Abbey of Shrewsbery embroiled in the politics surrounding the accession to the throne of King Stephen.
	www.catholicherald.com /saunders/97ws/ws082897.htm (676 words)

	Book Review: Brother Cadfael Novels (The Prayer Foundation)
		Brother Cadfael is a former Crusader (of Welsh background) who has fought in the Middle East from his youth, and "taken the cowl late in life" as a Benedictine Monk.
		Brother Cadfael is the Herbalist of his monastery, and solves murder mysteries as a medieval monk detective.
		Brother Cadfael, "a good man in an evil world," usually a very inspiring Christian that one can look to as an example, every once in a while makes a statement that we consider in error as to Bible teaching.
	prayerfoundation.org /books/book_review_brother_cadfael_novels.htm (623 words)

	Brother Cadfael - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cadfael is a Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, a small town in Shropshire, England.
		One interesting twist which Pargeter develops over the course of the novels is that, unlike his fellow monks, Cadfael proves to have a son, with whom he has met only on rare occasions.
		Thirteen of the books were adapted for a series of television movies starring Sir Derek Jacobi although the sequence of the television episodes differs from the sequence of the novels.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Brother_Cadfael (831 words)

	The Books: Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden by Robin Whiteman and Rob Talbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		rother Cadfael, the enthusiastic gardener and herbalist created by Ellis Peters, was renowned for his great knowledge of plants, especially the exotic varieties he had brought back from his extensive travels to the Holy Land and elsewhere.
		The herb garden was his particular domain, and as the abbey's apothecary and healer he was often to be found tending the plants or brewing up potions in his workshop.
		The A-Z section of the book lists all the herbs and plants mentioned in The Brother Cadfael Chronicles, and explains their various uses in medieval times -- before the days of modern antibiotics, medicines, and flavorings, herbs and herbal remedies were an essential part of the medieval world.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/6/0821223879 (308 words)

	Amazon.com: Brother Cadfael's Penance (Brother Cadfael Mysteries): Books: Ellis Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Brother Cadfael's 20th chronicle, Peters deftly binds the medieval monk's new adventure with family ties, moving from issues intensely public to problems determinedly private.
		When Cadfael learns that his son, Olivier, has been taken prisoner after the seige and fall of Faringdon castle, he also learns that his captor refuses to release him for a ransom, as he has done with all of the other prisoners.
		Cadfael is determined to secure his release at all costs and begs leave of the Abbot to travel to Coventry to attend the conference between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, so as to beg for help for Olivier.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446404535?v=glance (2346 words)

	Amazon.com: Brother Cadfael, Set 3 (The Rose Rent, A Morbid Taste for Bones, The Raven in the Foregate): DVD: Sir Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the decision was made to produce for TV several episodes from her mystery series about Brother Cadfael, that 12th century crusader turned monk turned detective who has been, ever since his creation, one of the most compassionate and unusual sleuths of literary history, novelist Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) was not entirely happy.
		All thirteen Brother Cadfael episodes produced for TV were eventually released on video and are available either individually or in one initial four-video set and three sets of three videos each.
		And Brother Cadfael's role is mostly reduced from sleuthing to bleating at the various characters in distress.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RIX0?v=glance (2372 words)

	Amazon.ca: Brother Cadfael's Penance: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cadfael is determined to find Olivier, although to do so he must leave the monastery without his abbot's "leave or...
		And Brother Cadfael is in attendance; not, however, because he has been called upon to lend his services to the cause of diplomacy, which regrettably is a foregone conclusion between enemies as deeply opposed as Maud and Stephen, but to make inquiries about a certain young knight named Olivier de Bretagne.
		Brother Cadfael's search for his son, the end of much of the series political strife, and Cadfael's acceptance and embracing of his clerical life tie up many of the series' themes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0751513709 (1034 words)

	Introducing Hugh Beringar
		Thus commences the battle of wits between Hugh Beringar and Brother Cadfael that forms the story; earlier in the novel, we have seen Godith (disguised unabashedly by the author as "Godric," an orphaned boy!) brought to Cadfael in his garden under the pretense of being taught as a lay servant, perhaps, eventually, to take vows.
		That young man made Cadfael increasingly uneasythere was something daunting in the very ease and impudence of his carriage, the small, sardonic turn of his lip, and the guileless clarity of the fl eyes when they happened to encounter Cadfael's.
		Brother Cadfael finished the last corner of the bed of mint before he turned to acknowledge the presence of Hugh Beringar.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /monkshould/HughBeringar.html (2215 words)

	Cadfael TV Show - Cadfael Television Show - TV.com
		Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk created by the late Edith Pargeter, writing under the pen name of Ellis Peters.
		Cadfael locks them up, but he sees this as a bid to draw out the real killer.
		Cadfael is a teenager that helps her detective father solve cases, while attending highschool.
	www.tv.com /cadfael/show/7244/summary.html (289 words)

	Amazon.ca: An Excellent Mystery: The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brother Humilis was a famous knight crusader before a nearly fatal wound led to his retirement from the secular world.
		Brother Humilis is a former crusader who is slowly dying of his wounds.
		Cadfael and the rest of her characters are congenial and her stories are light, but entertaining.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0688062504 (1426 words)

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		Brother Cadfael was born in Wales in May 1080; his full name is "Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd".
		He was at the fall of Antioch, and settled in the town with the other crusaders.
		He met Mariam, a young sarazine, their love lasted one year, then Cadfael was forced to left her to participate to the siege of Jerusalem.
	www.chez.com /andreys/Cadfael/english/cadfael.htm (251 words)

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