Today (August 20) is the Feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the greatest of the medieval Cistercian monastic reformers, a contemplative who in his enormous caritas guided monks, ecclesiastics, popes, and the crowned heads of Europe during the often-troubled mid-12th century.
He left many writings, which are honored by his being one of the “Doctors of the Church.” In my social media posts today I cited merely two sentences, which in a way summarize everything. (See text below this detail of Bernard from a medieval illuminated manuscript)
