Homilies: Volume 70

Written sometime between 1205-1214 for monks at the abbey of Locedio in the diocese of Vercelli in northern Italy, these homilies were re-discovered in the seventeenth century and promptly attributed to another, far more famous Cistercian, Bernard of Clairvaux. In both style and doctrine, however, both 'In Praise of God's Holy Mother' and 'On Our Lord's Word to His Disciples at the Last Supper' reflect a devotion somewhat dissimilar to and slightly later than Saint Bernard's.