Letters of Saint Bernard
Sixty-six letters from the Abbot of Clairvaux to kings, popes, monks, nuns, and seekers — spiritual direction in real time from the most commanding churchman of the twelfth century.
Source: ccel.org · Modernized for readability
✦ Table of Contents · 67 Chapters
1
Introduction
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Letter I: To the Canons Regular of Horricourt
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Letter II: To the Monk Adam
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Letter III: To Bruno, Archbishop Elect of Cologne
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Letter IV: To the Prior and Monks of the Grand Chartreuse
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Letter V: To Peter, Cardinal Deacon
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Letter VI: To the Same
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Letter VII: To Matthew, the Legate
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Letter VIII: To Gilbert, Bishop of London, Universal Doctor
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Letter IX: To Ardutio (or Ardutius, Bishop Elect of Geneva
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Letter X: The Same, When Bishop
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Letter XI: The Abbot of Saint Nicasius at Rheims
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Letter XII: To Louis, King of France
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Letter XIII: To the Same Pope, in the Name of Geoffrey, Bishop of Chartres
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Letter XIV: To Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln
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Letter XV: To Alvisus, Abbot of Anchin
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Letter XVI: To Rainald, Abbot of Foigny
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Letter XVII: To the Same
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Letter XVIII: To the Same
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Letter XIX: To Suger, Abbot of S. Denis
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Letter XX: To Guy, Abbot of Molêsmes
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Letter XXI: To the Abbot of S. John at Chartres
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Letter XXII: To Simon, Abbot of S. Nicholas
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Letter XXIII: To the Same
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Letter XXIV: To Oger, Regular Canon
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Letter XXV: To the Same
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Letter XXVI: To the Same
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Letter XXVII: To the Same
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Letter XXVIII: To the Abbots Assembled at Soissons
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Letter XXIX: To Henry, King of England
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Letter XXX: To Henry, Bishop of Winchester
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Letter XXXI: To the Abbot of a Certain Monastery at York, from Which the Prior Had Departed, Taking Several Religious with Him.
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Letter XXXII: To Thurstan, Archbishop of York
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Letter XXXIII: To Richard, Abbot of Fountains, and His Companions, Who Had Passed, Over to the Cistercian Order from Another
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Letter XXXIV: Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours, to the Abbot Bernard.
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Letter XXXV: Reply of the Abbot Bernard to Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours
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Letter XXXVI: To the Same Hildebert, Who Had Not Yet Acknowledged the Lord Innocent as Pope
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Letter XXXVII: To Magister Geoffrey, of Loretto.
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Letter XXXVIII: To His Monks of Clairvaux
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Letter XXXIX: To the Same
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Letter XL: To Thomas, Prior of Beverley
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Letter XLI: To Thomas of St. Omer, After He Had Broken His Promise of Adopting a Change of Life
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Letter XLII: To the Illustrious Youth, Geoffrey de Perrone, and His Comrades
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Letter XLIII: A Consolatory Letter to the Parents of Geoffrey
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Letter XLIV: Concerning the Maccabees But to Whom Written is Unknown.
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Letter XLV: To a Youth Named Fulk, Who Afterwards Was Archdeacon of Langres
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Letter XLVI: To Guigues, the Prior, And to the Other Monks of the Grand Chartreuse
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Letter XLVII: To the Brother of William, a Monk of Clairvaux.
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Letter XLVIII: To Magister Walter de Chaumont
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Letter XLIX: To Romanus, Sub-Deacon of the Roman Curia
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Letter L: To Geoffrey, of Lisieux
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Letter LI: To the Virgin Sophia
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Letter LII: To Another Holy Virgin
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Letter LIII: To Another Holy Virgin of the Convent of S. Mary of Troyes
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Letter LIV: To Ermengarde, Formerly Countess of Brittany
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Letter LV: To the Same
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Letter LVI: To Beatrice, a Noble and Religious Lady
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Letter LVII: To the Duke and Duchess of Lorraine
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Letter LVIII: To the Duchess of Lorraine
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Letter LIX: To the Duchess of Burgundy
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Letter LX: To the Same, Against Certain Heads of Abaelard's Heresies
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Letter LXI: To Louis the Younger, King of the French
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Letter LXII: To Pope Innocent
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Letter LXIII: To the Same, in the Name of Godfrey, Bishop of Langres
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Letter LXIV: To the Above-Named Falco
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Letter LXV: To the Canons of Lyons, on the Conception of S. Mary
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Letter LXVI: To the Patriarch of Jerusalem
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