Some Letters of Saint Bernard

Bernard of Clairvaux — translated by Samuel J. Eales, with a preface by Francis Aidan Gasquet, from CCEL.

Sixty-six letters to popes, kings, bishops, abbots, monks and noblewomen — the abbot of Clairvaux acting on the whole of twelfth-century Europe from a monastery. Letter 60 carries his indictment of Abelard’s teaching.

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Contents (66)

1. Letter 1. To the Canons Regular of Horricourt
2. Letter 2. To the Monk Adam
3. Letter 3. To Bruno, Archbishop Elect of Cologne
4. Letter 4. To the Prior and Monks of the Grand Chartreuse
5. Letter 5. To Peter, Cardinal Deacon
6. Letter 6. To the Same
7. Letter 7. To Matthew, the Legate
8. Letter 8. To Gilbert, Bishop of London, Universal Doctor
9. Letter 9. To Ardutio (or Ardutius, Bishop Elect of Geneva
10. Letter 10. The Same, When Bishop
11. Letter 11. The Abbot of Saint Nicasius at Rheims
12. Letter 12. To Louis, King of France
13. Letter 13. To the Same Pope, in the Name of Geoffrey, Bishop of Chartres
14. Letter 14. To Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln
15. Letter 15. To Alvisus, Abbot of Anchin
16. Letter 16. To Rainald, Abbot of Foigny
17. Letter 17. To the Same
18. Letter 18. To the Same
19. Letter 19. To Suger, Abbot of S. Denis
20. Letter 20. To Guy, Abbot of Molêsmes
21. Letter 21. To the Abbot of S. John at Chartres
22. Letter 22. To Simon, Abbot of S. Nicholas
23. Letter 23. To the Same
24. Letter 24. To Oger, Regular Canon
25. Letter 25. To the Same
26. Letter 26. To the Same
27. Letter 27. To the Same
28. Letter 28. To the Abbots Assembled at Soissons
29. Letter 29. To Henry, King of England
30. Letter 30. To Henry, Bishop of Winchester
31. Letter 31. To the Abbot of a Certain Monastery at York, from Which the Prior Had Departed, Taking Several Religious with Him
32. Letter 32. To Thurstan, Archbishop of York
33. Letter 33. To Richard, Abbot of Fountains, and His Companions, Who Had Passed, Over to the Cistercian Order from Another
34. Letter 34. Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours, to the Abbot Bernard
35. Letter 35. Reply of the Abbot Bernard to Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours
36. Letter 36. To the Same Hildebert, Who Had Not Yet Acknowledged the Lord Innocent as Pope
37. Letter 37. To Magister Geoffrey, of Loretto
38. Letter 38. To His Monks of Clairvaux
39. Letter 39. To the Same
40. Letter 40. To Thomas, Prior of Beverley
41. Letter 41. To Thomas of St. Omer, After He Had Broken His Promise of Adopting a Change of Life
42. Letter 42. To the Illustrious Youth, Geoffrey de Perrone, and His Comrades
43. Letter 43. A Consolatory Letter to the Parents of Geoffrey
44. Letter 44. Concerning the Maccabees But to Whom Written is Unknown
45. Letter 45. To a Youth Named Fulk, Who Afterwards Was Archdeacon of Langres
46. Letter 46. To Guigues, the Prior, And to the Other Monks of the Grand Chartreuse
47. Letter 47. To the Brother of William, a Monk of Clairvaux
48. Letter 48. To Magister Walter de Chaumont
49. Letter 49. To Romanus, Sub-Deacon of the Roman Curia
50. Letter 50
51. Letter 51. To the Virgin Sophia
52. Letter 52. To Another Holy Virgin
53. Letter 53. To Another Holy Virgin of the Convent of S. Mary of Troyes
54. Letter 54. To Ermengarde, Formerly Countess of Brittany
55. Letter 55. To the Same
56. Letter 56. To Beatrice, a Noble and Religious Lady
57. Letter 57. To the Duke and Duchess of Lorraine
58. Letter 58. To the Duchess of Lorraine
59. Letter 59. To the Duchess of Burgundy
60. Letter 60
61. Letter 61. To Louis the Younger, King of the French
62. Letter 62. To Pope Innocent
63. Letter 63. To the Same, in the Name of Godfrey, Bishop of Langres
64. Letter 64. To the Above-Named Falco
65. Letter 65. To the Canons of Lyons, on the Conception of S. Mary
66. Letter 66. To the Patriarch of Jerusalem