> Humbeline, matron and abbess (1135): The one-time worldly sister of
> Bernard of Clairvaux. Once Humbeline visited her brother at Clairvaux.
> Arriving stylishly dressed and with a large retinue, she made her saintly
> brother angry. He told her that she was showing off and that she should be
> more virtuous like their mother, Aleth. A few years later, Humbeline, with
> her husband's consent, became a nun and joined the convent of nuns at
> Jully near Troyes. Eventually she became abbess of the convent where she
> practiced severe physical austerities. When her nuns urged her to moderate
> her ascetic practices, she replied: "That is all very well for you who
> have been serving God in religion all your lives. But I have lived so long
> in the world and of the world that no penance can be too much for me."
>
My most sincere thanks for this very interesting story. It may be of use to me in an article I'm
working on. Is there any chance of some bibliographical references? Oriens.
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