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The mistakes you should never make in friendship, according to medieval monk

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Lucia Graziano - published on 02/07/23
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St. Aelred of Rievaulx, a medieval Cistercian monk, wrote beautifully and brilliantly about friendship.

Aelred of Rievaulx, a Cistercian monk who died Jan. 12, 1167, held friendship in the highest esteem. He called it "the greatest consolation of the human soul" and "an anticipation of heavenly bliss," and he dedicated an entire treatise to it, called Spiritual Friendship.

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