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Letters210 Letter CCX. To POPE INNOCENT. He recommends to the Pontiff the Archbishop of Rheims. (Circa A.D. 1139)

St Bernard of Clairvaux († 1153) · Epistolae · c. 1120-1153

Letter CCX. To POPE INNOCENT. He recommends to the Pontiff the Archbishop of Rheims. (Circa A.D. 1139)

I recommend the Lord Bishop of Rheims to your Holiness, not merely as one of many, but as one above the rest. And I do so the more confidently as I am confident of his faithful devotion to you, his sincere love, his submissive and obedient disposition. Let him be honoured, since he is a vessel made to honour. Let him be made to feel, as much as in you lies, that he does not honour his ministry in vain, that it is not in vain that he excels in those virtues by which God is honoured and the Church adorned, which, in short, become the priest of the Lord.

Dominum Remensem gloriae vestrae commendamus, non tanquam de caeteris, sed vere prae caeteris unum: idque tam secure, quam securi sumus de sua erga vos fideli devotione, sincera dilectione, voluntate subdita atque obedientissima. Honoretur, quoniam vas est in honorem. Sentiat, quod in vobis est, non frustra se honorificare ministerium suum: non frustra pollere his moribus quibus honoretur Deus, ornetur Ecclesia, qui denique deceant Domini sacerdotem.

Samuel J. Eales (active by 1879; M.A., Principal of S. Boniface College, Warminster, in 1882), Life and Works of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, edited by Dom John Mabillon, vols. I-III, London: Burns & Oates / John Hodges, 1889-1896. Digital text: OCR of Internet Archive scans saintbernardlife00bernuoft, saintbernardlife02bernuoft, lifeworksofsaint03bern, word-repaired against second copies (lifeworksofsaint01bern, lifeworksofsaint02bern, LifeWorksOfSBernardClairvauxV3). Original text: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1889-1896; translator active by 1879, an M.A. and principal in 1882; necessarily died before 1972. Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina 182-183 (1854), public domain.

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