Letters422 Letter CDXXII. To a certain Blshop.

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

Letter CDXXII. To a certain Blshop.

He recommends to him the cause of the monastery of S. Martin.

Letter CDXXIII.

Health, and that he may do the will of God in all things. Is it pleasing to you that the poor monastery of S. Martin should lose that alleviation of its poverty which God has conferred upon it, and that for the lack of friends more than of justice? For otherwise, if it is supposed not to have a just cause, it will be of great service to the house, that such an unfounded report should be set at rest, I am desirous therefore that you would not mind the trouble of inquiring diligently into their case, and of trying to bring it to a settlement either peacefully and by common consent, or at all events with justice and judgment.

Farewell, my very dear father: be mindful of me.

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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