{"id":481,"date":"2021-12-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2021-10-10T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T17:28:00","slug":"saint-bernard-of-clairvaux-samuel-john-eales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/blog\/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux-samuel-john-eales\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Bernard of Clairvaux by Samuel John Eales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/st-bernard_eales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/st-bernard_eales.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel John Eales [1839-1896], St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, A.D. 1091-1153\" class=\"wp-image-483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/st-bernard_eales.jpg 400w, https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/st-bernard_eales-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s free book is a biography of Bernard of Clairvaux, part of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/earlychurch.org.uk\/series_fathers-of-the-church-for-english-readers.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Fathers of the Church for English Readers<\/a><\/em> series. This public domain work was scanned from the copy held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spurgeons.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spurgeon&#8217;s College<\/a> library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medievalchurch.org.uk\/book_bernard_eales.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samuel John Eales [1839-1896], <em>St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, A.D. 1091-1153<\/em>. The Fathers of the Church for English Readers. London: SPCK, 1890. Hbk. pp.258. 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