¹ Since this is a popularisation and since few have access to Goswin's texts, I am not printing the references here. They will be available among the many appendices of my forthcoming Send Me God: Lives of Ida the Compassionate, Arnulf the Wagoneer and Abundus of Villers from Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo. In the meantime, a few copies of my interim bilingual Ida are still available from Guadalupe Translations, Box 97, Lafayette, Oregon 97127. Just write for the catalogue, which includes also my English of another Ida, the one from Louvain, and my centennial translations of selections from the Lives of St Bernard of Clairvaux. All are mimeographed on recycled paper and bound as pamphlets. For further information see Simone Roisin, L'hagiographie cistercienne dans le diocèse de Liège au XIIIe siècle (Louvain & Brussels, 1947): pp. 32-38, 54-59. The Latin of Abundus has since been published in Cîteaux: Commentant cistercienses X (1959), pp. 3-33. My study of Ida of Nivelles is based on the surviving manuscripts rather than on the incomplete (and slightly edited) edition of Henriquez.