Letters405 Letter CDV. To the Abbot G.

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

Letter CDV. To the Abbot G.

Bernard assures him that one of his Religious has sufficiently good health to live according to the custom of the community.

To the Abbot G., Brother Bernard, health and assurance of his friendship.

Be assured that Brother G. since his return from La Chreste where he took various remedies, has performed all the observances of his community, as a man in perfect health, nor has he been indulged in food more than others: also he has attended the night offices as they have done. If he shall do otherwise when with you, do not yield to it. You may be sure that anything wrong with him is not weakness of body, but lukewarmness of soul. Farewell.

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.