Bernard Fontaine, abbot of Clairvaux, was born in 1090 in Dijon and died August 20 1153. He was the Abbey of Clairvaux, a monastic, and a reformer of religious life. Spiritual director and major sponsor of the Cistercian order (or order of Cistercian ), Bernard demonstrated, throughout his life, a tireless activity to educate its Clairvaux monks to move and lead the crowds to combine his order with the papacy and to develop a militant ideology that his order and the... >Voir plus