Bernard of Clairvaux
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Bernard of Clairvaux 🇫🇷

Bernardus Claraevallensis (Known as "Doctor Mellifluus (Honey-Sweet Doctor)")
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Born c. 1090 🇫🇷 Fontaine-lès-Dijon, Duchy of Burgundy
Passed Away Aug 20, 1153 Clairvaux Abbey, Kingdom of France
Lifespan 63 years old
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"The reason for loving God is God Himself; the measure of loving Him is to love Him without measure."

Archival Overview

Cistercian abbot, mystic, and Doctor of the Church who sparked the massive expansion of the Cistercian Order, preached the Second Crusade, and wrote sublimely on the love of God.

Biographical Record

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153 CE) joined the struggling new monastery of Cîteaux with thirty noble relatives in 1113, revitalizing it into the powerhouse of 12th-century monasticism.

Founding Clairvaux Abbey, he became the moral conscience of Western Europe, counseling popes, reconciling monarchies, and composing mystical treatises like On Loving God and Sermons on the Song of Songs.

Key Life Milestones

1115

Founding of Clairvaux Abbey

Established Clairvaux in Burgundy, which founded 68 daughter monasteries across Europe in his lifetime.

1140

On Loving God and Sermons on the Song of Songs

Authored his supreme mystical commentaries delineating the four degrees of divine love.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Troyes Cathedral (relics preserved)
Troyes, France
GPS: 48.2975, 4.0789
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