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Letters262 Letter CCLXII. To the same, for the monks of s. Marie-sur-Meuse.

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

Letter CCLXII. To the same, for the monks of s. Marie-sur-Meuse.

I cannot but again support the Bishop of Rheims in his petition, especially since it is one which deserves to be listened to. I pray, therefore, and earnestly supplicate on behalf of the poor monks of S. Marie-sur-Meuse, that they may be quickly set free from the oppression under which they suffer, and that by your powerful hand the injuries and accusations of the malignant may be warded off from them; of these the bearer of this letter will inform you. It is for this that these poor men have sent messengers from afar to cry to you. And what answer you should send back by them you may learn from the righteousness and poverty of these men who love you, and from the honour due to the above Bishop, who has intervened on their behalf, and who loves you not a little.

Non possum deesse domino Remensi in petitione sua, praesertim cum digna sit exauditu. Rogamus proinde, et omni instantia supplicamus pro pauperibus monachis Mosomensibus, ut ab oppressione quam sustinent, sicut per latorem praesentium nosse poteritis, citius liberentur, et ab eis injuriae sive calumniae malignantium in manu vestra valida propulsentur. Hoc enim est pro quo pauperes de longe miserunt clamantes ad vos. Jam quale responsum a vobis oporteat reportari, doceat vos amantium tam justitia, quam paupertas; et praefati viri, qui pro eis intervenit, et vos non parum diligit, reverentia.

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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