Letters41 Letter XLI. To THE SAME. He recommends to him an aged religious.

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

Letter XLI. To THE SAME. He recommends to him an aged religious.

I fear that you are troubled by my frequent scribblings, but the law of Christ and the necessity of friends drives me to this opportunity. I entreat you not to send away empty this aged man whom I have recommended to you. He is aged as you see, and of a good and religious house, as I know. Besides this, I would ask you to be so good as to give him a letter to the King, your uncle, whom he is going to seek. I would wish that all the servants of God might become, if it were possible, your debtors, so that they may receive you one day into the everlasting habitations in return for the mammon of iniquity which you share with them. Farewell.

Timeo vos gravari in tam crebris scriptitationibus nostris; sed in hanc importunitatem urget me Christi charitas, et amicorum necessitas. Hunc itaque et senem, ut videtis, et de domo, ut nos scimus, religiosa ad vos missum non remitti vacuum supplicamus: et insuper ut vestris litteris ad avunculum vestrum regem iturum munire dignemini, rogamus. Vellem omnes servos Dei, si fieri posset, vestros fieri debitores, qui pro mammona iniquitatis quandoque vos reciperent in aeterna tabernacula. Valete.

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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