Apologia to Abbot William

Name: Apologia to Abbot William
Author: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

This book is in Portuguese.

Bernard’s letter-treatise to William of Saint-Thierry, defending the Cistercians against the charge of disparaging Cluny, and attacking the luxury and the monastic art of the Black Monks (the famous passage on cloister sculpture), with Mabillon’s admonitio. Latin only, from the Maurist text in Migne, a machine-corrected OCR.

Source: The complete text with Mabillon’s admonitio, chapter headings and summaries. PL page breaks and column numbers are dropped, and so are the paragraph numbers; Scripture references stay in parentheses as printed.