Capitolo 59
AS IS, THE APOSTLES
And so me dwelt in this place, my body indeed hidden street, but my
fame that scatters all over the world whole, cultivates its echo
reverberated powerfully-echo, that desire of the poet that has this way
great a voice and nothing close to. My first competitors, seeing that
them now they was weak to hurt me, it mixed on
against me the certain new apostles in who the world put the great faith.
One of these (Norbert of Premontre) taken the pride in his/her position as
canon of a regular order; the other (Bernard of Clairvaux) it did him/it
his/her boasting that he had revived the true monastic life. These two worked
of here and yon preaching and shamelessly slandering me in every way
they was able, so that in their duration they succeeded in to draw down on mine
you lead the contempt of many among those that have authority, among both the
clergy and the laity. They spread to the foreign countries such left relationships of
my faith as of my life that they has turned better also my
friends against me and those of what they still held back anything them
the first respect for me is fain to disguise him/it in every possible way
from reason for their fear of these two men.
God is my witness that the whensoever I learned to be worthwhile of a
new assemblage of the clergy, I believed that you/he/she was done for the
I sweep express of my sentence. Deafened by this fear as one
tormented with a lightning, me daily it was waited for to be dragged before
their suggestions or reunions as a heretic or one guilty of the impiety.
Although I seem to compare a flea with a lion or an ant with a
elephant, in a lot of truth my competitors anybody they persecuted me bitterly
what the heretics of old man pursued St. Athanasius. God often, knows,
I sank so deep in desperation that I was ready to leave the world of
Christianity and it goes on among the pagan, while paying them a
tribute stipulated in order that is probable that I quietly live a Cristiano
the life among the enemies of Christ. It seemed to me that such people
you/he/she would kindly be prepared indeed toward me, particularly as them