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Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron

By Geoffrey Grossus, Ruth Harwood Cline (Introduction)
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By Geoffrey Grossus, Ruth Harwood Cline (Introduction)
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Around 1147 the bishop of Chartres directed Geoffrey Grossus, a monk of Tiron Abbey, to write the life of its founder Bernard of Abbeville (ca. 1050-1116) in an effort to further his canonization. Although Geoffrey Grossus blithely borrowed from other writings on saints' lives to further his hagiographical purpose, he presented an erudite, action-filled, and sympathetic portrait of the ascetic founder of an increasingly prominent and wealthy congregation.

Bernard was a reformed Benedictine m...

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