The Life and Death of Saint Malachy the Irishman

by Bernard of Clairvaux

Publisher:

Cistercian Publications

, 1978

Overview

The life of a saint by a saint. Malachy O’Morgair spent his life and considerable energies exhorting, wheedling, badgering, and praying his countrymen back to Christian faith and practice. Bernard holds him up in this Life, eulogy, and hymn as a model to bishops.

Product Details

• Title: The Life and Death of Saint Malachy the Irishman
• Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
• Series: Cistercian Fathers Series
• Volume: 10
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications
• Print Publication Date: 1978
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 170
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Malachy O’Morgair, Saint, 1094?-1148; Catholic Church › Bishops--Biography; Bishops › Ireland--Biography; Christian saints › Ireland--Biography
• ISBN: 087907910
• Resource ID: LLS:BCSAINTMALACHY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:12:01Z

About Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was a French abbot, confessor, saint, and Doctor of the Church. He is honored as a founder of the Cistercian order because of his role in popularizing the order in the twelfth century. He takes his name from a monastery he founded on June 25, 1115—soon after joining the Cistercians. He named the monastery Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux. St. Bernard spent 40 years in cloister, but wielded considerable influence in the Church during that time—working to end a schism, combat heresy, and start the Second Crusade. After his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1174. His numerous theological writings are so timeless and powerful that they earned him the title of Doctor of the Church in 1830, and Pope Pius XII wrote an encyclical on him, Doctor Mellifluus, in 1953.