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Letters437 Letter CDXXXVII. To the same, for the same purpose.

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

Letter CDXXXVII. To the same, for the same purpose.

You heap favours upon me and increase my glory, when my friends for my sake find favour in your eyes; and the greater their number, the more must I think of your affection for me. Yet I seek not glory from man; but desire the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; and I think this is the case with the Bishop of Troyes also. With confidence therefore do I desire to recommend him to you under either character, that of a good man and of my friend. I would recommend to your Charity not him only, but also the bearer of this letter, who is sent by him: a young man of good disposition and dear to me.

Ad notum misericordiae fontem, de quo mihi et amicis meis toties hausi, domini Trecensis episcopi reverendi senis et amici nostri necessitas compellit recurrere. Hoc est ergo quod haurire desidero, quatenus apostolica pietas hominem, cujus jam cani merentur quietem, non sinat injuste vexari, et petitiones ejus, quas per nuntium suum facit, dignetur effectui mancipare.

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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