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	Bernard of Clairvaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Fontaines, near Dijon, 1090 – August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux) was a French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the intellectual revival of Western Europe called the Renaissance of the 12th century.
		2 Abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux
		One of these monasteries, Clairvaux, was founded in 1115, in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, on land given by Count Hugh of Troyes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_of_Clairvaux (2890 words)

	Clairvaux Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clairvaux abbey (Clara Vallis in Latin) was founded in 1115 by St.
		All Cistercian monasteries were arranged according to one plan, unless the circumstances of the locality forbade it.
		Clairvaux abbey is a good example of the general arrangement and distribution of the various buildings which went to make up one of these vast establishments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clairvaux_Abbey (1514 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Bernard of Clairvaux
		Clairvaux becoming too small for the religious who crowded there, it was necessary to send out bands to found new houses.
		During an absence from Clairvaux, the Grand Prior of Cluny, Bernard of Uxells, sent by the Prince of Priors, to use the expression of Bernard, went to Clairvaux and enticed away the abbot's cousin, Robert of Châtillon.
		The influence of the Abbot of Clairvaux was soon felt in provincial affairs.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02498d.htm (3552 words)

	Bernard of Clairvaux -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of these monasteries, (additional info and facts about Clairvaux) Clairvaux, was founded in 1115, in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, on land given by Count Hugh of Troyes.
		For Bernard of Clairvaux the (Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)) liberal arts served but a narrow purpose: to prepare the priesthood (Cantor 1993 p 338).
		Between 1130 and 1145 no less than 93 monasteries in connection with Clairvaux were either founded or affiliated from other rules, three being established in (A division of the United Kingdom) England and one in (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/bernard_of_clairvaux.htm (3015 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey of Clairvaux
		In 1116 twelve monks from Clairvaux installed themselves at Trois-Fontaines in the Diocese of Chalons, under the guidance of Roger, one of the first converts St. Bernard by his eloquence had attracted from the celebrated school of Stephen of Vitry.
		Clairvaux became the principal seat of the strict Observance.
		Clairvaux became the property of the State, and during the Restoration its buildings were converted into a prison.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03798c.htm (582 words)

	Bernard of Clairvaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot and theologian (born 1090, at Fontaines, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux, August 21, 1153).
		The pope traveled from place to place, with the powerful abbot of Clairvaux at his side; he stayed at Clairvaux itself, humble still, so far as its buildings were concerned; and he went with Bernard to parley with the emperor Lothair III[?] at Liege.
		The news of the disasters to the crusading host first reached Bernard at Clairvaux, where Pope Eugenius, driven from Rome by the revolution associated with the name of Arnold of Brescia[?], was his guest.
	www.city-search.org /be/bernard-of-clairvaux.html (2749 words)

	Bernard Of Clairvaux \| The Knights Templar \| templarhistory.com
		It is known that the land upon which Clairvaux was built was donated by the Count of Champagne, based at the nearby city of Troyes.
		Clairvaux became the Mother House of many new Cistercian monasteries, not least of all Fountaines Abbey in Yorkshire, England, which itself was to rise to the rank of most prosperous abbey on English soil.
		St Bernard died in Clairvaux on August 20th 1153, a date that would soon become his feast day, for St Bernard was canonised within a few short years of his death.
	www.templarhistory.com /stbernard.html (1740 words)

	St. Bernard Parish, Keene, NH St. Bernard of Clairvaux
		Bernard was the third son of Tescelin Sorrel, a nobleman of Burgandy, and was sent to school under secular canons at Chatillon-sur-Seine.
		Soon the name of the valley (and their monastery) was changed to "Clairvaux," "Clear Valleys," because the darkness had been driven away.
		Clairvaux had been the mother house from which 68 monasteries had been founded, and the Cistercian Order went on to become one of the great influences in European life of the 13th century.
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	Encyclopedia: Bernard of Clairvaux
		Download high resolution version (756x939, 94 KB)Bernard of Clairvaux from Project Gutenberg etext 13206 - This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Clairvaux abbey was founded in 1115 by St....
		The Second Crusade was the second major crusade launched from Europe, called in 1145 in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year.
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	Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Cistercian Doctor of the Church, Last of the Fathers. By M. Basil Pennington OCSO.
		Bernard, the founding abbot of Clairvaux Abbey in Burgundy, was one of the most commanding Church leaders in the first half of the twelfth century as well as one of the greatest spiritual masters of all times and the most powerful propagator of the Cistercian reform.
		He was born in Fontaines-les-Dijon in 1090 and entered the Abbey of Citeaux in 1112, bringing thirty of his relatives with him, including five of his brothers-- his youngest brother and his widowed father followed later.
		Stephen Harding, he was sent in 1115 to begin a new monastery near Aube: Clairvaux, the Valley of Light.
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		Roughly translated, Clairvaux means "bright valley." Later, the group opened George Porter House in Elkton, a transitional residence for eight people.
		Clairvaux's philosophy stems from a passage in the Book of Proverbs that states that God created the rich and the poor as equals.
		Clairvaux puts residents in touch with any social service they might need, and it teaches many of them skills they may not have picked up along the way, such as how to negotiate with a landlord or how to plan a budget.
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	Clairvaux & its Occupants
		The Clairvaux Mansion was located on US 15, bypass intersection with Motter Station Rd, one-half mile south of Mt. Saint Mary's College.
		One historian of that area I met on the grounds stated he did not understand why the college had not left the gardens at Clairvaux in tact as it was a wonderful tourist attraction.
		William Elder was the original owner of the Clairvaux property, however, it was not known as Clairvaux at that time nor did William at any time build on this property.
	www.emmitsburg.net /archive_list/articles/places/houses/clairvaux.htm (839 words)

	Clark Morphew's Religion Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sister Clairvaux McFarland, a Sister of St. Francis who lives and works at Assisi Heights Monastery in Rochester, is one of the first in Minnesota to discover the spiritual depth of icons and to paint them with a professional's touch.
		In 1994, Sister Clairvaux was involved in a serious auto accident that left her with disabilities.
		She begins with tempera, a paint that has been mixed with the yoke of an egg, vinegar and water, which becomes the glue that binds the paint to the board.
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	SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
		And all the time he was drawing to his abbey of Clairvaux, and sending as colonists all over Europe, a corps d'élite that counted among its numbers a pope, cardinals, bishops, and saints not a few.
		Bernard's feats of endurance and the interminable list of his wonders fill almost all the space in his biographies that is not given to his achievements as founder of Clairvaux and her many daughters, as champion of the Church, and as the hammer of heretics.
		He was, after his first years at Clairvaux, too weak to take part in any manual work; even walking exhausted him; and to his lifelong friends the characteristic memory was of a Bernard seated, emaciated and in pain.
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	Medieval Sourcebook: Encyclopaedia Britannica: St. Bernard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thanks to his considerate friend the abbot of Clairvaux was forced to abandon the cares of his new establishment, and in retirement and a healthful regimen to seek renewed health.
		The effect was all that could be desired, and in a few years Bernard had not only recovered his strength, but had begun that marvellous career of literary and ecclesiastical activity, of incessant correspondence and preaching which was to make him in some respects the most influential man of his age.
		Weary with growing years and cares the abbot of Clairvaux seemed at first reluctant, but afterwards threw himself with all his accustomed power into the new movement, and by his marvellous eloquence kindled the crusading madness once more throughout France and Germany.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/eb9-bernard.html (1897 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Preaching Conversion Through The Beatitudes: Bernard Of Clairvaux's Ad Clericos ...
		During a brief sojourn in Paris sometime between Lent of 1139 and early 1140, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), the famed Cistercian abbot, spiritual master, and ecclesiastical reformer addressed a group of scholars and student clerics on the theme of conversion.
		So effective were his words that a large group of his listeners followed him from Paris to his monastery in Clairvaux, where they became novices and professed their vows as Cistercian monks one year later.
		The enormity and suddenness of this response was probably due, at least in part, to Bernard's great sensitivity to the situation of his audience and to the care with which he laid out for them, step by step, the inner workings of his patented psychology of conversion.
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		In 1115 he founded the abbey in Clairvaux where he was abbot until his death.
		Bernard of Clairvaux was one of the creators of medieval speculative mysticism, which developed in the west over the course of the following centuries.
		Bernard of Clairvaux was a proclaimer of mysticism and thought that familiarity with God was the best and even the only way to know the truth.
	www.peenef2.republika.pl /angielski/hasla/b/bernardclairvaux.html (1979 words)

	Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1115 he headed the group sent to found a house at Clairvaux.
		During his lifetime 68 houses were founded out of Clairvaux alone.
		It was he who led the long struggle to seat Innocent II, the canonically elected pope, and persuaded Lombardy to accept Emperor Lothair II.
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	Bermard of Clairvaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Within four years of Bernard's arrival, the dying community of Citeaux was recovering.
		Bernard was sent with some companions to begin a community that later became the monastery at Clairvaux.
		Bernard was chosen as abbot of the community and led his brother monks by his own rigorous example.
	www.catholic-forum.com /themes/bermard_of_clairvaux.htm (249 words)

	St. Bernard of Clairvaux
		Bernard, son of Tescelin Sorrel, and Aleth, daughter of the lord of Montbard, was born in the family castle of Fontaines, near Dijon, in Burgundy.
		According to one historian, he had "carried the twelfth century on his shoulders." Doctor Mellifluus, the Honey-Sweet Doctor, as he was called for his eloquence, had been the counselor of prelates and the reformer of disciplines; his writings have continued to inspire the faithful.
		His relics are at Clairvaux, his skull in the cathedral of Troyes; his emblems are a pen, bees, and instruments of the Passion.
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	CLAIRVAUX - LoveToKnow Article on CLAIRVAUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Clairvaux (Clara Vallis) is situated in the valley of the Aube on the eastern border of the Forest of Clairvaux.
		Its celebrity is due to the abbey founded in 1115 by St Bernard, which became the centre of the Cistercian order.
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	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CL/CLAIRVAUX.htm (119 words)

	Works. (from Saint Bernard de Clairvaux) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		All that remains of the original abbey is a large 12th-century storehouse and other vestiges, which have been incorporated in an 18th-century...
		Bernard of Clairvaux led the Cistercian order of White Monks, who adhered to the strictest form of Benedictinism, to its greatest growth and the height of its influence.
		Extract from the 12th-century debate between the Cistercians of Clairvaux and the Benedictines from the monastery at Cluny.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-224852?tocId=224852 (781 words)

	The New Clairvaux Abbey
		Cistersians at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, in Vina, California, first learned of the stones in the 1950s.
		Finally, in 1994, the city of San Francisco agreed to let New Clairvaux have the stones; and with the help of architects and stonemasons, the project to rebuild Ovila's chapter house at New Clairvaux began.
		Once rebuilt, the Santa Maria de Ovila chapter house will be the oldest freestanding building in the United States west of New York and one of only three examples of Cistercian Gothic architecture in the country.
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	Patron Saints Index: Commercial Page for Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Known throughout the medieval church as a "spiritual doctor," he was given both a spectacular vision of angels and the wisdom to understand their purposes among men.
		Botterill analyzes Bernard's appearance as a character in the closing cantos of the Paradiso in the context of his medieval reputation as a contemplative mystic, devotee of Mary, and, above all, a preacher of outstanding eloquence.
		by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Amadeus of Lausanne
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	Bernard Of Clairvaux
		Bernard of Clairvaux was one of the greatest leaders in the history of the Church.
		Three years later he was appointed to supervise a group of his fellow monks in the newly founded monastery at Clairvaux.
		Many of Bernard Clairvaux's writings have been preserved and have had a great influence on both martin Luther and John Calvin.
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	Patron Saints Index: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
		At age 22, fearing the ways of the world, he, four of his brothers, and 25 friends joined the abbey of Citeaux; his father and another brother joined soon after.
		Founded and led the monastery at Clairvaux which soon had over 700 monks and 160 daughter houses.
		Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian, by Abbot M Basil Pennington, OCSO
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb08.htm (533 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: William of St. Thierry: A Description of Clairvaux, c. 1143 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the first glance as you entered Clairvaux by descending the hill you could see that it was a temple of God; and the still, silent valley bespoke, in the modest simplicity of its buildings, the unfeigned humility of Christ's poor.
		Moreover, in this valley full of men, where no one was permitted to be idle, where one and all were occupied with their allotted tasks, a silence deep as that of night prevailed.
		In Clairvaux, they have found Jacob's ladder, with angels upon it; some descending, who so provide for their bodies that they faint not on the way; others ascending, who so rule their souls that their bodies hereafter may be glorified with them.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/1143clairvaux.html (828 words)

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