Letters453 Letter CDLIII. To a person unknown.

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

Letter CDLIII. To a person unknown.

He promises to Stephen worthy fruits of penitence, if he shall persevere.

Letter CDLIV.

Who can sufficiently admire the warmth of your charity? But since I know that you are anxious and it is not a right thing to do to allow you to remain longer than is needful in that anxiety, Stephen your son and mine, if he shall complete his course with conduct worthy of its beginning, if he shall attain to offer the tail of the sacrifice with equal devotion to that with which he has offered the head, I offer my testimony in his behalf that he will bring forth worthy fruits of penitence.

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.