Bernard Of Cluny

Related Category: Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches: General Biographies

(kl´nē) or Bernard of Morlaix(môrlā´), fl. 1150, French Cluniac monk, of English parentage. He wrote De contemptu mundi [on contempt for the world], a poem in 3,000 hexameters. On it Horatio Parker based his oratorio Hora novissima, and from it John Mason Neale drew the words of Jerusalem the Golden.