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Last of the Fathers, as he was called, or to trace in detail the growth of an influence so extraordinary, that about the year 1148, we find Pierre le Vénérable, Abbot of Cluny, writing of
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Bernard of Clairvaux, the splendid and immovable column that sustains not the monastic order only, but the entire church, while Bernard himself, broken down by the weight of affairs pressing upon him, writes to Eugène III:
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People are pretending everywhere that you are not pope, but I; and all who have business, flock to me for help, (Aiunt non vos esse papam, sed me). Geoffrey, Bernard's secretary and successor, writing two years after his master's death, said:
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Whoso has met Bernard has seen Christ. For in him the whole Christ dwelt.