Restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai Kristian E. Markon Across cultures and throughout time

Across cultures and throughout time

this issue of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics discusses how complex biological

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Restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai Kristian E. Markon Across cultures and throughout timeIn Flanders in the year 1090, as famine began to spread over the low countries, diseased and dying paupers from near and far crowded into the cathedral of St. Mary of Tournai in hopes of a miraculous cure. When the canons of Tournai ordered that those without hope of survival be dragged outside, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the restoration of the abandoned monastery of St. Martin of Tournai. Some fifty years