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Letters22 Letter XXII. To Humbald, archbishop of Lyons and legate. (Before A.D. 1128)

san Bernardo di Chiaravalle († 1153) · Epistolae · c. 1120-1153

Letter XXII. To Humbald, archbishop of Lyons and legate. (Before A.D. 1128)

He commends the cause of the Bishop of Meaux.

To the most Reverend Lord and Father HUMBALD, Archbishop of Lyons and Legate of the Roman See, Brother BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux, health and all that the prayers of a sinner can avail on his behalf.

The Lord Bishop of Meaux was on his road to visit us, as it happened, when he received your letter. Since he wished to reply before leaving us, he begged me to join in a letter with him, in the hope that as I have the honour to be known to you, it might help to forward his business. I could not deny what he wished, and have thought it well to make this known to your Reverence in a few friendly words: because if you shall listen to the complaints of men who love only their own selves, and seek those things that are their own, against a Bishop who regards only those that are of Jesus Christ, it will be agreeable neither to your duty nor to your office.

Reverendissimo domino et patri suo HUMBALDO Lugdunensi archiepiscopo, Romanae sedis legato, frater BERNARDUS Clarae-Vallis abbas, si quid potest peccatoris oratio.

Dominus episcopus Meldensis cum accepit litteras vestras, forte tunc ad nos visitandi gratia veniebat. Cumque jam e domo nostra rescribere pararet, suis nostras tanquam vestri familiaris litteras jungere curavit, suo sperans negotio profuturas. Cui cum non possem negare quod vellet, id solum vestrae Reverentiae familiariter breviterque intimandum putavi quia si adversus episcopum quaerentem quae sunt Jesu Christi, homines se ipsos amantes, et quae sua sunt quaerentes audieritis, hoc nec vestrae congruit dignitati, nec officio.

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. Fonte del testo digitale: OCR of Internet Archive scans saintbernardlife00bernuoft, saintbernardlife02bernuoft, lifeworksofsaint03bern, word-repaired against second copies (lifeworksofsaint01bern, lifeworksofsaint02bern, LifeWorksOfSBernardClairvauxV3). Testo originale: 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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