. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . akeup the study of Sacred Scripture, which lateron became, as it were, his own tongue. Piety was hisall, says Bossuet. He had a special devotion tothe Blessed Virgin, and there is no one who speaksmore sublimely of the Queen of Heaven. Bernardwas scarcely nineteen years of age when his motherdied. During his youth, he did not escape tryingtemptations, but his virtue triumphed over them,in many instances in a heroic manner, and from thistime he thought
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . akeup the study of Sacred Scripture, which lateron became, as it were, his own tongue. Piety was hisall, says Bossuet. He had a special devotion tothe Blessed Virgin, and there is no one who speaksmore sublimely of the Queen of Heaven. Bernardwas scarcely nineteen years of age when his motherdied. During his youth, he did not escape tryingtemptations, but his virtue triumphed over them,in many instances in a heroic manner, and from thistime he thought of retiring from the world and h\inga life of solitude and prayer. St. Robert, Abbot of Molesmes, had founded, in1098, the monastery of Citeaux, about four leaguesfrom Dijon, with the purpose of restoring the Ruleof St. Benedict in all its rigour. Returning toMolesmes, he left the government of the new abbeyto St. Alberic, who died in the year 1109. St. Stephenhad just succeeded him (1113) as third Abbot ofCiteaux, when Bernard with thirty young noblemenof Burgundy, sought admission into the order. Three ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^sssssssssEssmsssasB. IflfWflflnnnprnrnflfwwfi APPARITION OF THE B- VIRGIX TO ST. BEK\ \l;|i I ILIPPINO LIPPI BADIA. FLORENCE 499 BERNARD years later, St. Stephen sent the young Bernard, atthe head of a band of monks, the third to leaveClteaux, to found a new house at Valine dAbsinthe,or Valley of Bitterness, in the Diocese of Bernard named Claire Valine, or Clairvaux,on the 25th of June, 1115, and the names of Bernardand Clairvaux thence become inseparable. Duringthe absence of the Bishop of Langres, Bernard wasblessed as abbot by William of Champeaux, Bishopof Chalons-sur-Marne, who saw in him the predes-tined man, senium Dei. From that moment a strongfriendship sprang up between the abbot and thebishop, who was professor of theology at Notre Dame,of Paris, and the founder of the cloister of St. beginnings of Clairvaux were trying and pain
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