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Bernard o Clairvaux

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Saint Bernard o Clairvaux
St Bernard in "A Short History of Monks and Monasteries"bi Alfred Wesley Wishart (1900).
Abbot
Confessor
Doctor o the Kirk
Doctor Mellifluus
Born1090
Fontaine-lès-Dijon,Fraunce
Dee'd20 August, 1153 (aged 62–63)
Clairvaux,Fraunce
Veneratit inRoman Catholic Kirk,Anglican Kirk,Lutheran Kirk
Canonised18 Januar 1174, Roum byPape Alexander III
MajorshrineTroyes Cathedral
Ville-sous-la-Ferté,religious vocations, preachers.
Feast20 August
AttributesWhite Cistercian haibit, deil on a cheen, white dug
PatronageCistercians,Burgundy,beekeepers, candlemakers,Gibraltar,Algeciras,Queens' College, Cambridge,Speyer Cathedral,Knichts Templar

Bernard o Clairvaux(Laitin:Bernardus Claraevallensis),O.Cist(1090 – 20 August 1153) wis aFrenchabbotan the primary reformer o theCistercian order.