Letter CCCLXXVIII. To the Same

(A.D. 1149.)

He asks assistance in grain for the Religious of the Diocese of Bourgcs.¹

To my very dear lord St'GER, by the grace of God the venerable Abbot of S. Denys, Brother BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux,- wishes health and sends the assurance of his prayers.

We have in the Archdiocese of Bourges some brethren who are in want of bread; they are those from Maison Dieu, and I hear that the crops of corn of the lord King are very abundant, and, because abundant, they are not of great value. Therefore, I entreat you that out of those crops you would order such a supply to be bestowed upon those brethren as you shall see tit. For the King, whenever he was in that district, was accustomed to make some gift to them.

Footnotes

1. Formerly No. 360; the former No. 378 is now No. 347. ↩