Letters296 Letter CCXCVI. To the bishop oe Ostia, eor the same. (Circa A.D. 1150)

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

Letter CCXCVI. To the bishop oe Ostia, eor the same. (Circa A.D. 1150)

A certain cleric is said to have gained the ear of my lord, and to have brought a charge against his own Bishop, who is a friend of mine, to satisfy his own greed. If you have any regard for me, or rather for the righteousness of God, take care that this malignant slanderer gain nothing by his falsehood, and let not the innocent Bishop, my faithful friend, take any harm.

Quidam clericus dicitur aures domini mei circumvenisse, aliquid contra episcopum suum, et nostrum amicum pro sua cupiditate molitus. Si mei cura est vobis, imo justitiae Dei, date operam, ut nihil lucretur de suo mendacio susurro malignus, nec laedatur in aliquo innocens episcopus, et fidelis amicus.

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.