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ST/EW/152

Bernard of Clairvaux

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
1090 - 1153
Description
Cistercian monk and abbot of Clairvaux. Bernard preached the Second Crusade, and was the author of the Rule of the Knights Templar. He was the force behind the Cistercians as a mass movement in the twelfth century. See further, G. R. Evans, Bernard of Clairvaux (Oxford, 2000).
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Abbot 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
8 20 yes St Bernard of Clairvaux None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations