BERNARD

SAINT, 5. at Fontaines, in slong | Burgundy, 1091, d. 1153; became abbot ives | of the monastery of besten nor drew ‘ains, | around him many who occupied and | positions of eminence in the church. He arroo | attacked several heresies, inc lading some of tho teachings of Abelard, whom he defeated in a public at teres liis miles | persuasive eloquence roused the and iefiy | nobility of France to undertake the Second ment | Crusade, Lather said of him—*“If there 7. | ever lived on the carth a God-fearing and <oin, | holy monk, it was St. Bernard of Clairp of/ vaux.” He was canonized by Pope nous | Alexander ITI, 1174. and| [s. 69]