Saint Bernard, Doctor of the Church (1091-1153) Bernard was born at the castle of Fontaines, in Burgundy. The grace of his person and the vigor of his intellect filled his parents with the highest hopes [...] and miracles Bernard kindled the enthusiasm of Christendom, and two splendid armies were dispatched against the infidels. Their defeat was only due, said the Saint, to their own sins. Bernard died in 1153 [...] Catholic Church. ______________ - Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894] St Bernard (1091-1153) She Who was Able to Please God by St Bernard
most free of human passions and at the same time the most compassionate of all. 3. In the West, Saint Bernard (d. 1153), addressing Mary, wrote a commentary on Jesus' presentation in the Temple: " Offer your [...] L' Assomption de la très sainte Vierge dans la tradition byzantine , 407 (2) cf. St Anselm, Oratorio 52, 8: PL 158, 957 A (3) On the Assumption , I, 2: PL 185, 188 Pope Saint John Paul II, General Audience [...] Saint John Paul II gave a historical development of the meditation on Mary's cooperation in redemption, in the Audience of October 25, 1995: 1. By saying that "the Virgin Mary is recognized and honored
Saint John Eudes (1601-1680) Saint John Eudes was a man, like Saint Bernard and later Saint Louis Mary de Montfort, whose entire life and ministry were influenced by the Virgin Mary. His own personal grace [...] him a saint in 1925. His feast day is August 19th. ________________________________________ Adapted from: Saint Jean Eudes et la Vierge Marie , Nouveaux cahiers marials, (1993) and #NULL Saint John Eudes
the Church has glorified this great servant of Mary, whom Lope de Vega compared to Saint Bernard de Clairvaux and Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo. It was his virtuous mother Constanza who planted in his soul [...] Saint Simon de Rojas (1552-1624) Father Simon de Rojas, the "Apostle of the Ave Maria," was a Spanish priest of the Trinitarian Order, born in Valladolid (Castile, Spain) on October 28, 1552. At age 12 [...] still continues to flourish in Spain. Considered one of the greatest contemplatives of his period, Saint Simon wrote in "The Greatness of Prayer" that the contemplative dimension goes hand in hand with an
a long time in choosing between several congregations, she entered the Sisters of Charity at the Saint Gildard Convent in Nevers, as a novice. Leaving Lourdes was very hard, but she knew that one has not [...] attention. This double situation only deepened Bernadette’s humility. She, who, like another shepherdess, Saint Joan of Arc—from the humble village of Domrémy—never yielded to vainglory. When visitors asked to [...] skeptic priest: "The Virgin asked me to share her message, not to make you believe it." Sister Marie-Bernard in Nevers All interrogations were in this vein—her clear replies carried the force of truth and revealed
Name of Mary in the Encyclopédie mariale -on Saint Fulbert of Chartres (960-1028) , in the Marian Encyclopaedia -on Look at the star! The Name of Mary (St Bernard) in the Marian Encyclopaedia -on Ave maris [...] mar-yam (מר-ים) "drop of the sea", based on מר mar, a biblical word for "drop" and ים yam "sea". Saint Jerome († 420), Doctor of the Church and one of the four Fathers of the Latin Church, translated this [...] error that had such a fruitful posterity! [ 2] It developed, particularly under the influence of St Bernard of Clairvaux, a Marian doctor, in the twelfth century, in one of his homilies on the Annunciation
Life, Ladder of Heaven. Saint Bernard and Cistercian Abbeys The Danish invasions (792-1014) strongly opposed nascent Christianity. Saint Bernard, friend and biographer of Saint Malachy, transmitted a new [...] the Saints Evangelization of Ireland began in the wake of the Council of Ephesus (431), in the fervor of the devotion to the Mother of God. Eventually Ireland came to be called "the Island of Saints," for [...] third-largest island in Europe, lying to the west of Great Britain. Tradition maintains that in AD 432 Saint Patrick (c. 385-461), arrived on the island and, in the years that followed, he worked to convert
monastery of Saint Disibod. She received the habit in 1136, and spent the rest of her life in Bingen where she exercised authority in a joyful and charitable manner. She submitted her visions to St Bernard of Clairvaux
that was always joined to the Lordship of Christ. Strongly influenced by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's spirituality Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), who left a strong mark on the whole Cistercian [...] 2002 p. 103 à 128. Dom Jean Leclercq, Bernard de Clairveaux, Bibliothèque de l'Histoire du Christianisme no 19 Ed Desclée, Paris, 1989. - Dom Jean Leclercq. St Bernard et l'esprit cistercien, Ed. du Seuil [...] seemed to rest on the child: baptized under the name of Mary, her family decided to celebrate her saint's day on February 2, feast of Mary's Purification and of Jesus' Presentation in the Temple. The Virgin
in their actions." [2] ________________________________________ [1] Cf. Saint Bernard, Sermon of the Twelve Stars, § 10 [2] Saint Bridget, Revelationes, II, 23 ________________________________________ St [...] interrupt her Son's discourse nor enter the house where he was speaking, even by natural authority as Saint Bernard points out [1]. [...] She shared her Son's dishonor Finally, humility embraces contempt. We do [...] greatness and goodness of God, she saw her own smallness more clearly. [...] Mary praised the Lord When Saint Elizabeth said to the Blessed Virgin Mary "Most blessed are you among women. And how does this happen
