Tag: Who was Bernard of Clairvaux?

St Bernard (1090 – 1153) was born into royalty, the third in a family of ten children at Fontaine-Les-Dijon, France. He excelled at school and developed a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary; a devotion that, in later life, he preached to others. At 19, when his mother died, St Bernard decided to join…