Category:Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Born: 1090 in Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France Died: August 20, 1153 (aged 62–63) in Clairvaux, France Honored in: Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Lutheran Church Canonized: January 18, 1174, Rome by Pope Alexander III Major shrine: Ville-sous-la-Ferté, religious vocations, preachers. Feast: August 20 Attributes: White Cistercian habit, devil on a chain, white dog Patronage: Cistercians, Burgundy, beekeepers, candlemakers, Gibraltar, Queens' College, Cambridge, Speyer Cathedral, Knights Templar

(born in 1090, died in 1153, Memorial on August 20)
 * Bernard was born in 1090 at Fontaines-les-Dijon, Burgundy, France. He was the third child of Lord Tescelin of Fontaines and Aleth of Montbard. In 1113, when he was twenty-two years old, he, four of his brothers, and twenty-five of his friends of noble birth entered the Cistercian monastery at Cîteaux. Bernard made his profession in 1114. In 1115, he was sent by St. Stephen, the third abbot of Cîteaux, to found a monastery at the Vallée d'Absinthe in the Diocee of Langres with twelve other monks to accompany him. Bernard named the new monastery Claire Vallée on June 25, 1115, and the monastery came to be known as Clairvaux. His father and his remaining brother(s) joined the monastery, and many others flocked to join the monastery too. Because Clairvaux could no longer house all those who wanted to join, the Monastery of the Three Fountains was founded in the Diocese of Châlons in 1118. He died on August 20, 1153,  in Clairvaux.