Saint Bernard Research Paper

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 and was bore to his parents, Tescelin Lord of Fontaines and Aleth of Montbard. Bernard was 1 of 7 children and he was the third child of the family. In Saint Bernards early life he was very academic and his studies got the admiration of his teachers. Bernard wanted to excel in literature so that later he could study the bible, he had a special devotion to mary and would later write about mary naming her ¨Queen of Heaven¨. Bernard preached an untraditional faith in which the interceder was the virgin Mary. At the age of nineteen Bernard’s mother died and Bernard wanted to retreat into a life of solitude and prayer. After the death of his mother he went and join a group called Cistercian Order which is just a fancy name for a bunch of monks and nuns who did lots of manual labor and grew and ate their own food rather tan buying it from the store, basically they self sustained themselves. After being in the Order for three …show more content…
Around this time Bernard authored his first book called De Gradibus Superbiae et Humilitatis, and a few homilies which are commentaries on scripture. After this some monks from another abbey didn’t like it that Bernard’s religion was taking a lead role over the Roman Catholic church, so they attempted to make it seem like the rules of his new Order was impracticable. After this happened Bernard released an Apology and in the first part of it he proved himself innocent of the thing the monk were charging him with and in the second part he stated his reasons for his counterattacks. After this attack from the monks Bernard stated that he loved the Roman Catholic the same as anyone else and his Apology letter converted a lot of people. This outrage from the monks backfired on them. Then Bernard terminated his connection with the media of that time and restored order to his Monasteries. He then extended his religion to everyone and