ST BERNARD AND MARY

FR LOUIS SCURTI SHARES MEMORIES OF HIS MOTHER, COMPARING BERNARD'S DEVOTION TO THE MOTHER OF JESUS.
 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard,  an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar,[a] and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.