Ghost of dia...20/08 St. Bernard of Clairvaux Joyfully celebrate the sanctity of the abbot and doctor of the Church: St. Bernard. Born in the Castle of Fontaine in 1094, near Dijon (France) belonged to a noble family, who was startled by his radical decision to follow Jesus as a Cistercian monk. St. Bernard is considered the founder of the Cistercian family one second, because so many attracted to the Order, the mothers and wives and husbands departed the sons of the saint, size was the real power of attraction Bernardo all brothers, cousins and friends followed. Man of prayer, stood out as a preacher, priest, mystic, writer, founder of monasteries, the abbot, counselor of Popes, Kings, Bishops and also polemicist, politician and peacemaker. Happened that St. Bernard, even though contemplative entered the concrete reality of his time to the point of participating in various controversies inside and outside the Church at the time. In the year 1115, his abbot Stephen sent him with twelve companions found in the Valley of the Absíntio, what they called San Bernardo Valley course (Clairvaux). The monastery of Clairvaux the saint radiated the light of Christianity, this is also the writings, as the Treatise on the Love of God and the Commentary on the Song of Songs, the invocation is the result of a deep and solid devotion to Our Lady: "O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. "By the Mother of Heaven, was welcomed into eternity in 1153. He wrote numerous works, thousands of letters, more than 300 sermons; intervened in all doctrinal disputes, in all major religious and secular issues of the time. In order of time, is considered the last of the Church Fathers. One of his editor, who died in 1707, Mabillon, wrote of him: "It is the last of the Fathers but equals the greatest." St. Bernard, pray for us!
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:11:13 +0000
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