The Pilgrim of Hate

The Pilgrim of Hate (1984) Ellis Peters (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10)

Set in Shrewsbury in 1141.

“Then your only resort is confession and penance,” said Hugh lightly.

“Not until Brother Mark is full-fledged a priest!” Young Mark was gone from his mother-house and from his flock at Saint Giles, gone to the household of the bishop of Lichfield, with Leoric Aspley’s endowment…“I’m saving for him,” said Cadfael, “all those sins I feel, perhaps mistakenly, to be no sins.”

To strike at a man for being honestly of the opposite persuasion, and then to strike again at the fair-minded and chivalrous who sought to prevent the outrage—very ill omens, these, for the future of the legate’s peace.

To what desperate end could a young man choose so to torture himself? And what pleasure did he think it could give to God or Saint Winifred to contemplate his discomfort?

I do believe. But why for me? In case like mine we come by our thousands, in worse case by the hundred. How dare I ask to be among the first? Besides, what I have I can bear. There are some who cannot bear what they have.

Characters: Cadfael, Rainald Bossard, Bishop Henry, Hugh Beringar, Aline Beringar, Matthew, Ciaran, Rhun, Melangell, Mistress Alice Weaver, Adam of Reading, Abbot Radulfus, Prior Robert, Denis, Anselm, Oswin, Simeon Poer, John Sure, Walter Baggot, and William Hales, Daniel Aurifaber, Olivier de Bretagne

Publisher: Mysterious Press

Rating: 8.5/10

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