Letters436 Letter CDXXXVI. To the same.

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

Letter CDXXXVI. To the same.

In favour of the Bishop of Troyes.

The necessity of the Bishop of Troyes, a reverend old man and my friend, obliges me to have recourse again 1 Carum; there is a play upon the words cams and car it very usual with S. Bernard. (E).

Letter CDXXXVII.

to the well known fountain of loving kindness. This then, is my request, that your Apostolic Piety would not permit a good man, whose white hairs have already deserved peace and quiet, to be unjustly harassed: and that you would deign to grant the petitions which he makes by his messenger.

N. flamma negotiorum quae assidue Romae geruntur, fere adustus, ex desiderabili et jucunda inspectione scriptorum vestrorum, utinam refrigerari merear. Sed, proh dolor! ad opus servi vestri in tota Clara-Valle scriptores non possunt reperiri, satis dictum est a filio patri. Amicum nostrum et personae nostrae et Ordinis glorificum amatorem dominum N. qui etiam fideliter negotia gerit suorum, dulcedo vestrae benevolentiae pro se et nobis habeat charum.

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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