Letter XVI. To Peter, Cardinal Presbyter

(The same year as the preceding.)

To his very dear lord PETER, Cardinal Presbyter, Brother BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux, wishes health everlasting.

I have no cause to plead with you; yet the cause of the monks of Dijon, because they are Religious, I regard as mine. Take their cause in hand as if it were mine; yet so mine that it may be also that of justice. I believe, how ever, that their cause is just; and the whole country testifies with me.