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who he triumphed, he was them superior in moral strength, in
zeal, and especially in the power to do others it divides his really
enthusiasms. Been Born in 1090, he was famous as one of the first one
of French cleric before he was thirty years old; his/her action in
the dispute that followed the death of Pope Honorius II in 1130
the building one of the most imposing figures in Europe. It was
to him that the order of Cistercian you owe his/her extraordinary expansion
in the twelfth century. That Abelards it would be due to fall first this way
formidable an adversary (sees her/it note on Pierre Abelard) it is in no
way surprising, but there can be without doubt that St. Bernard
"persecution" of Abelard was only inhaled by tall ideals and a
intense zeal for the truth as Bernard perceived him/it.
ABBEY OF STREET GILDAS
This abbey was at least, traditionally, the oldest one in Brittany.
According to the anonymous author of the Life and Actions of Street
Gildas, was founded during the kingdom of Childeric, the second of
the Merovingian governs, in the fifth century. Both that as it is able, his/her
authentic history had been wide before Abelard supposed the
direction of his/her business. His/her horrendous portrait of the conditions
what prevailed not there, clearly is approved as, completely
allowing accurate, but equal for the gross exaggeration, the life of the
monks are due to rather sufficiently be scandalous. It was
apparently in the last period of the stay of Abelard in the abbey
of St. Gildas that he wrote the "Historia Calamitatum." He bore
the life there for almost ten years; the date of its flight is not
certainly, but you/he/she cannot be away from 1134 or 1135.
LION IX
Leo IX, pope from 1049 to 1054 was a native of Alsace Superiore. It
it was to the synod Pasquale of 1049 that he commanded again the bachelorhood
of the clergy, in connection with which the letter quoted from
Abelar