Shrewsbury Abbey and Brother Cadfael

Ruth Ellis writes about the fictional character, Cadfael, who is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in the first half of the 12th century. The historically accurate stories are set between about 1120 AD and about 1145 AD and tell his story from leaving his family farm in Trefriw, his time as a soldier in the Eastern Mediterranean, and through to his conversion to the religious life of a brother at Shrewsbury Abbey. His travels were far from over and in his monastic life he travelled from Shrewsbury to the North Wales coast to Coventry, Oxford and Gloucester as well as around South Shropshire.