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Letters367 Letter CCCLXVII. To THE CHANCELLOR G. Bernard recommends to him the Bishop of Metz. (Circa A.D. 1147)

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

Letter CCCLXVII. To THE CHANCELLOR G. Bernard recommends to him the Bishop of Metz. (Circa A.D. 1147)

Your predecessor, the Chancellor Haimeric of good memory, held the Lord Bishop of Metz in special affection; and as often as he sent messengers to Rome received them with great kindness and assisted them as much as he could. Wherefore I beg you to be so kind as to walk in his footsteps, and to assist with the arms of the Church that noble Bishop, who is placed in a position of great difficulty.

Praedecessor vester bonae memoriae Haimericus cancellarius dominum Metensem episcopum speciali amplectebatur dilectione; et nuntios ejus, quoties Romam venirent, plurimum acceptabat, et juvabat studiosius. Unde rogo vos quoque per eadem gradi vestigia, et nobili episcopo, in magna necessitate posito, armis Ecclesiae subvenire.

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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