Letters15 Letter XV. To Haimeric the Chancellor

To the illustrious lord HAIMERIC, Chancellor of the Apostolic See, BERNARD of Clairvaux wishes health, and the grace to follow the Apostle, forgetting the things'which arc behind, and looking forward to those which are before.

Our friends are not ignorant of your friendship for me, and if I were desirous of keeping the fruit of so great felicity to myself they would show themselves jealous. The monks of Dijon are very dear to me, because of the ancient associations of that Church. I beg you to let them experiindiscriminately to denote a convent of monks. See Letters 39, 60, 339, 392, 394, 39;, etc., while it is not rare to find the word Monastery employed for Church* The Church of S. Benignus is simply called the Church of Dijon, because it is the principal Church of the town.

Letter XVI.

ence that affection, whether yours for me or mine for them is not without its influence. Justice, nevertheless, being done in all respects, against which it is not right, even for a friend, to desire anything.

Lett ER XVI. (The same year as the preceding.} To PETER, CARDINAL PRESBYTER.

To his very dear lord PETER, Cardinal Presbyter, Brother BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux, wishes health everlasting.

I have no cause to plead with you; yet the cause of the monks of Dijon, because they are Religious, I regard as mine. Take their cause in hand as if it were mine; yet so mine that it may be also that of justice. I believe, however, that their cause is just; and the whole country testifies with