High Middle Ages & Scholastics
William of Saint-Thierry (1085–1148)
Cistercian mystic and friend of St. Bernard; author of the Golden Epistle. William of Saint-Thierry, O. Cist was a twelfth-century Benedictine, theologian and mystic from Liège who became abbot of Saint-Thierry in France, and later joined the Cistercian Order.