false 349272 11 "I was born in the September of 1523, nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the crib on that Christmas morning. My birth was, my father used to say, another miracle: He was not young at the time being forty years of age . . . My mother, whose great pleasure was tending her gardens, called me Damask, after the rose which Dr. Linacre, the King's physician, had brought into England that year." Thus begins the story narrated by Damask Farland, daughter of a well-to-do lawyer whose considerable lands adjoin those of St. Bruno's Abbey. It is a story of a life inextricably enmashed with that of Bruno, the mysterious child found on the abbey altar that Christmas morning and raised by the monks to become a man at once handsome and saintly, but also brooding and ominous, tortured by the secret of his origin which looms ever more menacingly over the huge abbey he comes to dominate. This is also the story of an engaging family, the Farlands. Of a fathr wise enough to understand "the happier our King is, the happier I as a true subject must be," a wife twenty years his junior, and a daughter whose intelligence is constantly to war with the strange hold Bruno has upon her destiny. What happens to the Farlands against the background of what is happening to King Henry and his court during this robust period provides a novel in which suspense and the highlights of history are wonderfully balanced. 3158204 book 6 1972 The Miracle at St. Bruno's total:94|5:24|4:32|3:32|2:6| 94 356 128 3 3 0 false false Tue Mar 10 12:03:46 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:04:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 15:17:11 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 13:16:42 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Thu Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 1988 Thu Mar 27 06:05:54 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 11:12:22 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 14:00:03 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 14:00:03 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 08:37:07 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 08:37:07 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Oct 15 14:05:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:05:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 19:47:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 19:47:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 09 13:15:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 13:15:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Oct 08 02:59:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 02:59:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 17:56:26 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 17:56:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 07:03:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 07:03:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 04 12:39:16 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 12:39:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 19:23:57 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 19:23:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Sep 26 21:05:26 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:05:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 02:48:32 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 02:48:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 04:28:41 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 04:28:41 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 05 08:15:53 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:15:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 04 13:43:40 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 13:43:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 30 19:10:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 19:10:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 23 23:05:06 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:05:06 -0700 2009