Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux
O. Cist.
San Bernardo by Juan Correa de Vivar, held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Doctor of the Church
Doctor Mellifluus
Last of the Fathers
Confessor
Abbot
Born
c. 1090
Fontaine-lès-Dijon, Burgundy, Kingdom of France
Died
20 August 1153 (aged 62–63)
Clairvaux Abbey, Clairvaux, Champagne, Kingdom of France
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Anglican Communion[1]
Lutheranism[2]
Canonized
18 January 1174, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Alexander III
Major shrine
Troyes Cathedral
Feast
20 August
Attributes
Cistercian habit
book
crosier
Patronage
Cistercians
Burgundy
Beekeeper
Candlemaker
Gibraltar
Algeciras
Queens' College, Cambridge
Speyer Cathedral
Knights Templar
Binangonan, Rizal
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