Directory of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Resources

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Bernard, the founding abbot of Clairvaux Abbey in Burgundy, was a notable Church leader in the first half of the twelfth century and one of the greatest spiritual masters of all times. He was instrumental in propagating the Cistercian reform. He died at Clairvaux on 20 August 1153 and was canonized by Pope Alexander III on 18 January 1174. Pope Pius VII declared him a Doctor of the Church in 1830.

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• Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Theologian, and Poet

  http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/08/20.html
  Biographical sketch. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02498d.htm
  Article on the life and works of this twelfth-century Cistercian and Doctor of the Church.

• Catholic Information Network: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

  http://www.cin.org/saints/bernclai.html
  Biography of the last of the Fathers.

• Catholic Online: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=559
  Hagiography.

• CatholicSaints.Info: Bernard of Clairvaux

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux/
  Illustrated profile.

• Doctor Mellifluus

  http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12DOCTO.HTM
  Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the last of the Fathers. Promulgated 24 May, 1953.

• New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Bernard of Clairvaux

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc02/Page_62.html
  In-depth article on St. Bernard's life and writings. Includes bibliography.

• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

  http://www.osb.org/cist/bern.html
  Biographical entry in the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia, by M. Basil Pennington.

• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Doctor of the Church

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/BERNARD2.htm
  Excerpts of a pious hagiography, taken from the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

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