Peter Abelard
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Peter Abelard was a French philosopher, logician, theologian, composer, and poet.
Depiction by Antoni Oleszczyński, before 1841
Statue of Abelard at Louvre Palace in Paris by Jules Cavelier
Dedicatory panel in the Père Lachaise Cemetery
Peter Abelard and Heloïse in a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose (14th century)
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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
Peter Abelard
…St Thierry, who discovered what he considered to be heresies in some of Abelard's teaching. In spring 1140 he wrote to the Bishop of Chartres and to Bernard of Clairvaux denouncing them. Another, less distinguished, theologian, Thomas of Morigny, also produced at the same time a list of Abelard's supposed heresies…
San Bernardo by Juan Correa de Vivar, held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Bernard exorcising a possession, altarpiece by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500
Bernard holding a demon at his feet, oil on canvas by Marcello Baschenis, c. 1885
The abbey of Cluny as it would have looked in Bernard's time