Today's minor feast is in honor of Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx. Aelred was a Cistercian monk and founder of the great Abbey at Rievaulx. The Cistercians of the day had a great habit of taking the swamps and dark forests of their lands and turning them into places of beauty. Rievaulx is considered to have been the Citeaux of England, and it was certainly a center of English Spirituality from the 12th Century onward.