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Hello everyone and welcome to Catholic Saints.

My name is Taylor Kemp, the director, formed, and with me again is our near and dear Dr. Elizabeth Klein.

Dr. Klein, it's good to have you.

Thanks for having me.

Dr. Klein is a professor here.

She teaches theology, the graduate school of theology, and she likes talking about saints.

I do.

And today, everybody, we are talking about Saint Ayl Ryd of Revo. Hard to spell. So if you're listening to this and you Google it later, that's tough. Al-R-R-R-E-D of Revo. I know nothing about St. A-L-R-R-R-E-D of Revo. So this will be,. Ayl Ridd of Revo, so this will be fun to learn.

Yeah, so Ayl Rite of Revo is a 12th century Cistercian abbot in England.

Cistercian abbot in England. Got it.

And A-Rid, I met A-L-Rid when I was doing my PhD. So one of the reasons I love Saints so much is I did a class on early and medieval saints' lives in one of my first semesters in my PhD. And I was Protestant at the time, so I didn't really like know a lot of saints or hadn't read Saints' lives. And I was just like blown away and made all kinds of saint friends. And ALERid... Even as a Protestant before you became Catholic. Yes. I mean, you know, I'm sure it helped becoming Catholic later. Oh, it most certainly did. But I find it interesting that you were even open to that. I mean, I think people love hero stories, right? People love biographies. No, not saint stories. Well, I think Catholics like saint stories, but... I think Suprasnus can like saints stories.

Oh, I think they can. I haven't... It's not part of the experience that I've had. Well, I think that this might be an unexplored angle of evangelization. Just give people some saints lives, man. I like it. I like them. Might want to pick... Maybe not... Maybe not Ayuronovrivo.

Aeroid Avrivo might not be for the average person.

But there are, you know, modern saints.

But Ayrid Avrivo. Aeroid might not be for the average person, but there are, you know, modernist saints. But Ayl Ridd, one of the reasons why Ayl Ridd was a kindred spirit to me was because Aylid Avrivo really loved St. Augustine's confessions. Oh, that had to get you. So I really love St. Augustine, and I just thought it was so cool. and this comes up of course, all over the lives of the saints. You start to get this sense of the saints really as like the family of God.

And all of a sudden you realize like, hey, I have this other friend who is also a friend of my

favorite saints. So Ayl Ridd was a sort of attendant in the court of King David of Scotland and was raised up to the level of being the sort of master of the house.

And then reading St. Augustine's Confessions was the reason he abandoned his secular career and decided to become a monk.

Wow. Cool.

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