Bernard of Clairvaux

American  

[bur-nahrd uhv klair-voh] / bɜrˈnɑrd əv klɛərˈvoʊ /

noun

1. Saint the Mellifluous Doctor, 1090–1153, French monk, preacher, and mystical writer.

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Bernard of Clairvaux British  

noun

1. Saint . ?1090–1153, French abbot and theologian, who founded the stricter branch of the Cistercians in 1115

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Example Sentences

If you’d like to see this engraving of the Virgin Mary spraying milk all over St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s face at a much higher resolution, it’s at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

From Slate

It’s a blast, but Gadsby doesn’t identify any of the art she’s showing, and some of it—particularly the depictions of the Virgin Mary lactating a stream of milk across the room into the mouth of St. Bernard of Clairvaux—are not usually part of Art History 101.

From Slate

The members of the order wore white robes with a distinctive red cross, embraced personal poverty and lived according to a regime codified by the great Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux.

From Washington Post

And we know that it made a lasting impression on other Bruges artists, because 16th-century copies exist of its central image: a Crucifixion scene with a passel of saints — John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Bernard of Clairvaux — and Crabbe himself in attendance.

From New York Times

In the nineteen-fifties, the brilliant Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who would become a friend and mentor to Berrigan, published a book about St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the twelfth-century Trappist.

From The New Yorker