Detail from Crucifixion fresco by Fra Angelico in the Dominican monastery of San Marco, Florence. This image is a depiction of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
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12th century founder and abbot of the abbey of Clairvaux. A supporter of the cult of the Virgin but not of the Immaculate Conception. Promoted the cause of a failed Second Crusade (1147–49).
Sained glass panels showing St Bernard of Clairvaux and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. These are by the Julien Fournier Studios of Tour, and can be found in the church of Saint-Pierre in Pontlevoy.