He is also known to quote thinkers such as Saint Bernard, and Richard of Saint-Victor.

In 1113, Saint Stephen Harding had just succeeded him as third Abbot of Cîteaux when Bernard and thirty other young noblemen of Burgundy sought admission into the Cistercian order.

Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, whose feast falls on 20 August, became the Patron Saint of Gibraltar.

Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

They had a powerful advocate in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading Church figure and a nephew of André de Montbard, one of the founding knights.

A field of yellow wildflowers in Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

* Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration, ( addressed to Pope Eugene III ), George Lewis, trans., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908.

His feast day was added to the General Roman Calendar only in 1631, and only as a commemoration on 20 August, the feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

* Bernard, Saint, Abbot of Clairvaux, preacher and reformer

* Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy.

* Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ( d. 1153 )

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk of Cîteaux Abbey, left it to found Clairvaux Abbey in 1115, of which he was the first abbot.

The influence of the Cistercian order grew very rapidly, owing much to Saint Bernard, and at the beginning of the 13th century the order had more than 500 houses.

A hospice was built at Mount Saint Bernard ( Elevation 1540 ) around 1863 along a track developed to link the Victorian gold fields.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

In Paradiso ( cantica 33 of the poem ), Saint Bernard, in a prayer for the Virgin Mary, says " Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio " ( Virgin mother, daughter of your son ).

Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

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* Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th century monk and leader of the Cistercians

The Cistercian monk Herbert of Clairvaux wrote in his De Miraculis ( without naming Hekla ): A poem by the monk Benedeit from circa 1120 about the voyages of Saint Brendan mentions Hekla as the prison of Judas.

Its reputation for ducentes canonicam vitam (" living a canonical life ") attracted Saint Malachy of Ireland who, as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux had a close, long-standing involvement with Gisborough.

The Aulne Abbey, which had been given to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1147 fared better and was even expanded several times in the 16th and 18th century.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preached there in favor of a second crusade at Easter 1146, in front of King Louis VII.

With Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order.

Relic from the shrine of Saint Boniface | Saint Boniface of Dokkum in the hermit | hermit-church of Warfhuizen: bone fragment in middle is from Saint Boniface ; little folded papers on the left and right contain bone fragments of Saint Benedict of Nursia and Bernard of Clairvaux

In the classic Roman Catholic Mariology book The Glories of Mary, the author Saint Alphonsus Liguori called the Blessed Virgin Mary the " Gate of Heaven ", relying on the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, another Doctor of the Church.

In 1134 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux convinced William to drop his support to Anacletus and join Innocent.

Saint John ( Janskerk ), originating in 1040 ; Saint Peter, building started in 1039 and Saint Mary's church building started around 1090 ( demolished in the early 19th century, cloister survives ).

Saint Ivo ( Yves ) of Chartres ( c. 1040 – 23 December 1115 ) was the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death and an important canon lawyer during the Investiture Crisis.

* Saint Adalbero ( died 1090 ).

* Saint Isaiah of Rostov, bishop and wonderworker ( 1090 )

* St George's Day Patron Saint Celebration ( England, Europe ) – April 23

* 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

* 1830 – The Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.

* 1967 – Sarah Cracknell, English singer ( Saint Etienne )

* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Saint Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk ( 1439 – 1515 ), wrote a number of influential works against heresy, and about monastic and liturgical discipline, and Christian philanthropy.

* 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

For a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

* 1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress

* 1534 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.

* 1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima ( Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549 ).

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

* 1912 – Pravda, the " voice " of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

* Saint Anastasius – a martyr under Nero

* Saint Anastasius the Fuller – martyr ( d. 304 )

* Saint Anastasius of Persia – Persian martyr ( d. 628 )

* Saint Anastasius of Pavia – bishop of Pavia ( d. 628 )