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Letters309 Letter CCCIX. To pope Eugenius (A.D. 1153)

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

Letter CCCIX. To pope Eugenius (A.D. 1153)

He praises Abbot Suger and recommends his deputies to the Pope.

To his very dear father and lord EUGENIUS, by the grace of God supreme Pontiff, Brother BERNARD, called Abbot of Clairvaux, wishes health and offers his humble homage.

If in our Gallican Church there is any vessel capable of doing honour to the palace of the Great King; if the Lord counts among us a second David, coming in and going out at His command (1 Sam. xxii. 14); in my judgment it is no other than the venerable Abbot of S. Denys. I know that great man perfectly; if he is faithful and prudent in temporal things he is not less fervent and humble in spiritual things; and is equally without blame (which is a very difficult thing indeed) in the management of both. Before the King he behaves as one of the Court of Rome, and when in the church before God as one of the Court of Heaven. I request and entreat you to receive kindly the messages of so good a man, and to reply to him as becomes you, and as he is worthy of receiving, in good and friendly words, full of familiarity and affection, of goodness and favour; for you may be quite sure that to show special love and honour to his person is a sure means of doing honour to your own office and ministry.

Amantissimo patri et domino EUGENIO, Dei gratia summo Pontifici, frater BERNARDUS Clarae-Vallensis vocatus abbas, modicum id quod est.

Si quod magnae domus magni Regis vas in honore habetur apud nostram Ecclesiam Gallicanam, si quis ut David fidelis ad imperium Domini ingrediens et egrediens, meo judicio ipse est venerabilis abbas Sancti-Dionysii. Novi siquidem virum, quod et in temporalibus fidelis et prudens, et in spiritualibus fervens et humilis; et in utrisque (quod est difficillimum) sine reprehensione versetur. Apud Caesarem est tanquam unus de curia Romana, apud Deum tanquam unus de curia coeli. Petimus et obsecramus, benigne a vobis suscipi nuntios tanti viri; et, sicut vos decet et ipse omnino dignus est, rescribi ei verba bona et amicabilia, plena familiaritatis et dilectionis, plena favoris et gratiae: siquidem specialius diligere et honorare personam ejus, est honorificare ministerium vestrum.

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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