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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Born in 1091, died in 1153; made Abbot of Clairvaux in 1115; refused many offers of preferment, but exercised strong influence on the church politics of Europe; procured the condemnation of Abelard’s writings in 1140; promoted the Second Crusade of 1146.