Crusade Preacher: St. Bernard Coloring Page

Crusade Preacher: St. Bernard Coloring Page
Crusade Preacher: St. Bernard Coloring Page

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,
Abbot and Doctor of the Church

1090-1153

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Saint Bernard was a Cistercian abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and Doctor of the Church.

His virtue was legendary across Europe as he advised the popes, preached for the Second Crusade, performed miracles, and even reversed a schism.

Bernard longed for his quiet monastic life amidst all of this, and he wrestled with guilt over the effects of the crusade, despite its necessity to defend the Church.

Although he is misattributed as the author of the Memorare, Bernard held a sublime devotion to the Virgin Mary and impelled all to love her.


Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, pray for us!

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Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Christ


O Loving Jesus, Meek Lamb of God, I, a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other wound of Thy Most Blessed Body.

I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee, and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain, and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross.

Amen

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