Letters267 Letter CCLXVII. To the abbot of Cluny

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

Letter CCLXVII. To the abbot of Cluny

Your son, Brother Gaucher, has also become ours according to the rule, All mine are thine, and thine are mine (S. John xvii. 10). Let him be not less loved because he is common to us both, but, if possible, let him be more loved and held in greater favour; as he is mine because yours, so let him be yours because mine.

Filius vester frater Galcherus, factus est et noster, secundum regulam illam: Omnia mea tua sunt, et tua mea. Non sit minus familiaris, quia communis: sed si est quod possit alia gratia, sit familiarior atque acceptior, ut mihi, quia vester est; sic vobis, quia noster est.

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.