Letters369 Letter CCCLXIX. 1147.) to abbot stgkr
Letter CCCLXIX. 1147.) to abbot stgkr
He congratulates Suger on the reformation of the Ahhev of Ste. Genevieve, happily set on foot, and urges him to persevere in his undertaking.
To his very dear father and lord SUGER, by the grace of God the venerable Abbot of S. Denys, Brother Bernard, of Clairvaux, health and the assurance of his prayers.
Blessed be God who by your hands has re-established the salutary reign of rule and discipline - in the Abbey of Ste. Genevieve. The Apostolic authority itself thanks you because you have set about a great work faithfully and effectually. I, too, with all those who love the Lord in truth, render to you such thanks as we can. I beg and earnestly entreat your Greatness that, according to the tenor of the Pope's letter, you would cause the work to proceed with all speed, that what has been grandly begun may go on from day to day and be happily accomplished. I regard it as unnecessary to ask your kind help for the Abbey of S. Victor, because I am aware that the charge of all the religious houses has been committed to you. But it is needful to be particularly watchful over those in which the state of religion leaves much to be desired.
Amantissimo patri et domino SUGERIO, Dei gratia venerabili abbati Beati-Dionysii, frater BERNARDUS de Clara-Valle, salutem et orationes.
Benedictus Deus, qui in manu vestra operatus est salutem in ecclesia Sanctae Genovefae: ut domus Dei restitueretur ordini et disciplinae. Agit vobis gratias apostolica ipsa auctoritas, quod fideliter et efficaciter opus magnificum incoepistis: agimus et nos quas possumus gratias, et quicunque Deum diligunt in veritate. Rogamus itaque obnixius et postulamus, ut secundum apostolicarum tenorem litterarum, operi manuum vestrarum dexteram porrigatis: ut quod magnifice coeptum est, vestrae Magnitudinis opera proficere possit in dies, et feliciter consummari. Jam pro ecclesia Sancti-Victoris charitatem vestram sollicitare superfluum judicamus: quia omnium ecclesiarum custodia vobis commissa esse dignoscitur. Sed his debetur amplius, quarum religio amplius noscitur indigere.