Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)

Mellifluous Doctor; Cistercian reformer and author of the Sermons on the Song of Songs. Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.