Saint
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Country / origin
- France
- Life
- 1090–1153
- Feast
- 20 August
- Canonised
- 1174
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A Burgundian nobleman who entered the reformed monastery of Cîteaux with some thirty companions and became the first abbot of Clairvaux. Preacher, adviser to popes and kings, and a writer on the love of God and of Mary. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1830.
Patron of
- the Cistercians
- beekeepers
- devotion to Our Lady
When to ask for intercession
- to grow in the love of God
- to entrust yourself to Mary
- to speak about God with conviction
A short prayer
Saint Bernard, intercede for me, that I may love God above all things and trust Mary as a mother who leads me to Jesus.
Written for cento53 as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Tradition holds
The Memorare (Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary) is traditionally linked to his name, but it is not found in his writings: in its present form it was spread in the 17th century by the French priest Claude Bernard.
A saint for what you are living
- Prayer
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