Bernard of Clairvaux
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090–1153), monastic reformer, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux, France. Bernard is known principally through four biographical accounts...
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Bernard of Clairvaux, St.(1090–1153)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the monastic reformer and theologian, was born of a noble family at Fontaine, France, near Dijon. He became a Cistercian at C�...
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Bernard of Clairvaux is one of the most influential figures in the latter half of the Middle Ages, and one of the most paradoxical. Even Bernard thought of himself as the chimera of his century....
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The French churchman St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a Cistercian monk and founder and abbot of the monastery of Clairvaux. A theologian and Doctor of the Church, he dominated Europe through ...
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