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          Bernard of Clairvaux

          Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (–)

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          Bernard of Clairvaux


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          San Bernardo by Juan Correa de Vivar, held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

          Bornc.&#;
          Fontaine-lès-Dijon, Burgundy, Kingdom of France
          Died20 August (aged 62–63)
          Clairvaux Abbey, Clairvaux, Champagne, Kingdom of France
          Venerated&#;in
          Canonized18 January , Rome, Papal&#;States, by Pope Alexander&#;III
          Major shrineTroyes Cathedral
          Feast20 August
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          Patronage

          Bernard of Clairvaux, (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; &#;&#; 20 August ), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar,[a] and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.

          He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey only a few years after becoming a monk at Cîteaux. In the year , Bernard attended the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of t