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Letters40 Letter XL. To THE SAME. He commends a poor religious to Theobald. (Circa A.D. 1127)

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

Letter XL. To THE SAME. He commends a poor religious to Theobald. (Circa A.D. 1127)

I commend unto you two things in this man whom you see: poverty and piety, that if you do not compassionate the one in him you may reverence the other, and may not deny to him what he has come so far, and at the price of so many fatigues, to ask of you. Give him, then, some help, if not for his sake, at least for your own; for if he has need of you because he is poor, you have as much and, indeed, more need of him because he is a religious. Finally, of all those many people whom I have sent unto you for the same cause, I do not know if there has been one other on whom you might bestow a benefit with greater certainty that it would be pleasing to God. Farewell.

Duo vobis commendamus in homine isto quem videtis, paupertatem et religionem, ut si uni non compatimini, alterum in eo revereamini: quo nullatenus id ei negare possitis, propter quod vos cum tanto labore de longe requirere curavit. Itaque etsi non propter ipsum, certe propter vos ei succurrite: quia quantum vos illi sua paupertas, tantum, imo amplius, vobis illum necessarium facit sua aeque religiositas. Denique de multis quos eadem de causa jam ad vos misimus, nullum fuisse recolimus, de quo magis Deo placere sciamus, quam si huic benefeceritis. Valete.

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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