Pope Pius VIII
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Pope Pius VIII was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 31 March 1829 to his death in November 1830.
Portrait by Clemente Alberi, c. 1830
Illustration of Pope Pius VIII
Painting of Pius VIII by Ferdinando Cavalleri
1829 painting by Horace Vernet of Pius VIII in the Sedia gestatoria
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
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…individuals. On 23 December 1829 he beatified Benincasa da Montepulciano, and on 4 March 1830 he beatified Chiara Gambacorti. Pius VIII proclaimed Saint Bernard of Clairvaux a Doctor of the Church on 20 August 1830, titling him as "Doctor mellifluus" ("Mellifluous Doctor"). Pius' brief pontificate saw the Catholic Emancipation…
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