Word: clairvaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones in gold and leaves her sons naked," chided St. Bernard of Clairvaux. But in their devotion to Mary, the medieval sons of Paris were content so long as they could carry the stones...
Inside Job. In Clairvaux, France, after six missing convicts had been hunted all over the countryside for four days, they were found in a prison garret weaving a long rope for climbing over the outer wall...
...demand to expel the Moslems from the Holy Land throbbed in the conscience of Christian Europe through the 12th century, and for many years thereafter. Few places in the West escaped the eloquence of the Crusader preachers. Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments...