Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder...
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Bar-sur-Aube. The abbey was founded in 1115 by Bernard of Clairvaux. As a primary abbey, it was one of the most significant monasteries in the order....
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Second Crusade (category Wars involving the Kingdom of Jerusalem)
would be gone from the kingdom for several years. Louis consulted Bernard of Clairvaux, who referred him back to Eugene. By now Louis would have definitely...
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works of, among others, Henry Suso, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Ávila, Gregory the Great and Bernard of Clairvaux. The Gospel of John speaks of Jesus...
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origins of the devotion and details of wthe are unknown. Legends attribute the selection and propagation of the devotion to Bernard of Clairvaux. Books of Hours...
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Cistercians (redirect from Congregation of St. Bernard)
Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule. They...
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Saint Malachy (redirect from Máel Máedoc Ua Morgair, Archbishop of Armagh)
Bishop Christian of Clogher from 1126 to 1138. Máel Máedóc, whose surname was Ua Morgair, was born in Armagh in 1094. Bernard of Clairvaux describes him...
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Saint Bernard refers primarily to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), a Christian saint, mystic, and reformer of the Cistercian order. Another prominent...
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Divine Comedy (redirect from 9 spheres of heaven)
and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who represents contemplative mysticism and devotion to Mary the Mother, guiding him in the final cantos of Paradiso. The...
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Memorare (section Claude Bernard)
Cistercian monk Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, apparently due to confusion with its 17th-century popularizer, Father Claude Bernard, who stated that he learned...
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Pope Eugene III (redirect from Peter Bernard of Paganelli)
influence of Bernard of Clairvaux he entered the Cistercian Order in the monastery of Clairvaux in 1138. A year later he returned to Italy as leader of the...
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Protestant churches. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was an influential Cistercian monk who famously wrote against the excessive use of imagery in a monastic...
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Peter Abelard (category Articles with close paraphrasing of public domain sources from February 2023)
reason". For Bernard of Clairvaux, faith is based on the testimony of Scripture and on the teaching of the Fathers of the Church. Thus, Bernard found it difficult...
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in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading Church figure, the French abbot primarily responsible for the founding of the Cistercian Order of monks and...
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Clairvaux Prison was a high-security prison in France, on the grounds of the former Clairvaux Abbey. Clairvaux Abbey was founded in 1115 by Bernard of...
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Clairvaux Abbey, a Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux (in the present Ville-sous-la-Ferté), in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, where Bernard...
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Gertrude the Great (redirect from Gertrude of Helfta)
articulation by Bernard of Clairvaux in his commentary on the Song of Songs. The women of Helfta—Gertrude foremost, who surely knew Bernard's commentary,...
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Beekeepers - Ambrose of Milan, Bernard of Clairvaux, Valentine Beggars - Ambrose of Milan, Elisabeth of Hungary, Giles, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur...
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birth was hailed as a "miracle" by Bernard of Clairvaux, an answer to his prayer to bless the marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII. Marie was...
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advantages of the marriage between Louis and Eleanor. When he died on 13 January 1151, the balance changed since Bernard of Clairvaux was a critic of the marriage's...
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for 'Book to the Knights of the Temple, in praise of the new knighthood') was a work written by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – August 20, 1153)....
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Bernard of Clairvaux began preaching for a return to Roman orthodoxy in southern France. In a letter to the people of Toulouse, written at the end of 1146,...
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Alice, is a saint and mother of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Her feast day is celebrated on 4 April. Alèthe is a variant of the Greek name "Alethea," meaning...
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of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). Bernard is the second most common surname in France. As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname Bernard were...
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The monument to Bernard of Clairvaux at Dijon is a memorial built in 1847 by the dijonnais sculptor François Jouffroy, dedicated to the monk, statesman...
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Antipope Anacletus II (category Year of birth unknown)
North of the Alps, Innocent gained the crucial support of the major religious orders, in particular Bernard of Clairvaux's Cistercians, the Abbot of Cluny...
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in the papal schism of 1130, opposite to Pope Innocent II, against the will of his own bishops. In 1134, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux convinced William to...
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Dies irae (category Book of Zephaniah)
sources ascribing its origin to St. Gregory the Great (d. 604), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or Bonaventure (1221–1274). It is a medieval Latin poem...
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André de Montbard (redirect from Andrew of Montbard)
uncle of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, being a half-brother of Bernard's mother Aleth de Montbard. She had married Tescelin Sorus, a knight, the father of Bernard...
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Damiani, and in a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux from the 12th century. Beelzebub Dark Lord Devil in Christianity Lucifer Prince of Darkness (Manichaeism)...
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