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Excerpt from The Life and Times of St. Bernard
Like St. John, the object of his constant solicitude was to unite Christians in the living bonds of the Gos pel. That this unity was only to be preserved by the universal supremacy of one earthly head of the Church, was Bernard's firm belief, and this was the groundbf his devotion to the See of Rome, which appears to have been rather ideal than actual; he venerated the Popes not as they were, but as be deemed they might be; and the stem and unsparing reproofs which he directed against their corruptions, afford abundant proof that they had not attained the standard of his expectations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
