Bernardine, Bernard in

& s. [In Sw., Dan., & Ger. Bernhardiner (s.); Fr. Bernard in; Sp. & Port. Bernardo (s.); Ital. Bernard in i (s. pl). From BERNARD (B.).] A. As auective: Pertaining to the monks of the order οι Bernard. "Hard by, in hospitable shade, A rev rend pilgrim dwells, Well worth the whole Bernardine brood." Scott : Marmion , vi. 18. B. As substantive ( pl . Bernard ins): Church History: The name given to the Cistercian monks, a branch of the old Benedictines, from the very eminent St. Bernard, who, entering the order, gave it such an impulse that he was considered its second founder. St. Bernard was born at Fontaine, near Dijon, in A.D. 1091; in 1115 became abbot of a Cistercian monastery at Clairval or Clairvaux, in the territory of Langres; in 1127, before the Council of Troyes, advocated the establishment of the Knights Templars; and in 1146 carried out his most notable achievement, inducing the kings of France and Germany to enter on a crusade (the second of the series), which ended, contrary to his expectations, in great disaster. He died in 1153. His order was revived in 1664 by Armand Jean Bouthelier de Rance, and long flourished under the name of the Reformed Bernardines of La Trappe. (Mosheim: Ch . Hist . Cent. xii., xvii.)