Bernard of Clairvaux: A Saint's Life in Word and Image

Although he lived more than nine hundred years ago, St. Bernard of Clairvaux is celebrated throughout the world as a leader not only of his own monastic order, the Trappists, but of the whole Roman Church.This extraordinary book invites you to walk with a great man on his life's journey, a journey that is unique and powerful, and yet like all of our journeys, so very human.See him, not through the eyes of later historians, but as Bernard himself saw and lived his own life. Let his own words and thoughts come together with the images of his times so that through his inspiration you may be able to face your own doubts and find your own answers to life's most compelling and complex questions.