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Bible Encyclopedias
Bernard, St.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Abbot of Clairvaux, born at Fontaines, in Burgundy; pronounced one of the grandest figures in the church militant; studied in Paris, entered the monastery of Citeaux, founded in 1115 a monastery at Clairvaux, in Champagne; drew around him disciples who rose to eminence as soldiers of the cross; prepared the statutes for the Knights-Templar; defeated Abelard in public debate, and procured his condemnation; founded 160 monasteries; awoke Europe to a second crusade; dealt death-blows all round to no end of heretics, and declined all honours to himself, content if he could only awake some divine passion in other men; represented in art as accompanied by a white dog, or as contemplating an apparition of the Virgin and the Child, or as bearing the implements of Christ's passion (1091-1174). Festival, Aug. 20.
Public Domain.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bernard, St.'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/bernard-st.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
