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Born Bernard DE CLAIRVAUX
French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order
Born on 1090 in Fontaine-lès-Dijon , France
Died on August 20, 1153 in Clairvaux , France
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Bernard would expand upon Anselm of Canterbury's role in transmuting the sacramentally ritual Christianity of the Early Middle Ages into a new, more personally held faith, with the life of Christ as a model and a new emphasis on the Virgin Mary. In opposition to the rational approach to divine understanding that the scholastics adopted, Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.
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