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AIUNT NON VOS ESSE PAPAM, SED ME. SVÄTÝ BERNARD, RÍMSKI BISKUPI A PÁPEŽSTVO V ZRKADLE KOREŠPONDENCIE

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Zupka D.

Konštantínove listy

2020

vol. 13

issue 2

76 - 88

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – 1153) belongs to the most important historical figures of the first half of the twelfth century. Almost 500 letters were preserved form his monumental works until today. These letters were sent to most important personalities of the secular and spiritual world of his day. This article seeks to analyse and interpret the relation of Saint Bernard with popes as leader of the Catholic Church and with the papacy as an institution destined to lead the faithful to the eternal salvation. The abbot of Clairvaux kept vivid contacts with all the popes reigning between 1124 and 1153. In the case of Innocent II and Eugene III one can say that he even actively enabled their instalment on the throne of St. Peter. Just like in the case of monasticism, episcopate or lay princes, Bernard took a similar approach towards the popes. He enforced his vision of the papacy. Bernard was also able to transform these visions to real life and so he exercised a double impact on the most important institution of the Christian world.

BISKUPI A ICH ÚRAD PODĽA BERNARDA Z CLAIRVAUX

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Zupka D.

Konštantínove listy

2023

vol. 16

issue 2

14 - 23

This article aims to reconstruct the picture of the bishop and his office captured in the correspondence of Bernard of Clairvaux, providing two crucial insights. The first is the Clairvaux abbot’s personal view of bishops and their position in medieval society. He himself rejected this rank and ministry on several occasions, but this did not prevent him from publicly articulating the basic principles and, above all, the moral demands on any candidate for this responsible office. As on other issues, Bernard’s outlook was on the side of strict discipline and firm orthodoxy, while still keeping in mind the vulnerability and imperfection of individual bishops. This opens up a second level of significance in examining Bernard’s correspondence in his letters. He did not merely portray an ideal state or an idealised theory of the episcopal vocation. On the contrary, most of his letters were addressed to specific bishops and responded to concrete events, problems, and pitfalls in the exercise of their office. In this way we learn a great deal about contemporary society, about the workings of the Church and, more specifically, about the everyday problems of bishops. By analysing the information from the letters under study, we can thus come closer to reconstructing a realistic picture of the position, functioning and importance of bishops in the society of the first half of the twelfth century.

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AIUNT NON VOS ESSE PAPAM, SED ME. SVÄTÝ BERNARD, RÍMSKI BISKUPI A PÁPEŽSTVO V ZRKADLE KOREŠPONDENCIE

BISKUPI A ICH ÚRAD PODĽA BERNARDA Z CLAIRVAUX