A GIANT OF HIS TIMES
THE LAST CHURCH FATHER

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux lived in times of great ferment and division. Heresies were proliferating; the Holy See was threatened by schism; inveterate evils destroyed public morals; the Saracens menaced Christendom while Christian princes provoked each another to endless and sanguinary combats. Into these troublous times God sent Bernard, as a help and remedy. A man of astonishing holiness and charisma, dissolute and unruly kings, princes, and devils trembled before him; popes and bishops sought his...