The memory of Jesus' name

Translator: Abraham Coles

Born: December 26, 1813, Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Died: May 3, 1891. Coles grad­u­at­ed from Jeff­er­son Med­i­cal Coll­ege, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1835. In 1866, he was pre­si­dent of the New Jer­sey Me­di­cal So­ci­e­ty; in 1871, Prince­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty award­ed him an LLD de­gree. His works in­clude: Dies Irae (New York, 1859) Stabat Mater Dolorosa, 1865 Stabat Mater Speciosa, 1866 Old Gems in New Settings, 1866 The Microcosm, 1866, 1881 The Evangel in Verse, 1874 The Light of the World, 1884 --www.hymntime.com/tch Go to person page >

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, saint, abbot, and doctor, fills one of the most conspicuous positions in the history of the middle ages. His father, Tecelin, or Tesselin, a knight of great bravery, was the friend and vassal of the Duke of Burgundy. Bernard was born at his father's castle on the eminence of Les Fontaines, near Dijon, in Burgundy, in 1091. He was educated at Chatillon, where he was distinguished for his studious and meditative habits. The world, it would be thought, would have had overpowering attractions for a youth who, like Bernard, had all the advantages that high birth, great personal beauty, graceful manners, and irresistible influence could give, but, strengthened in the resolve by night visions of his mother (who had died in 1… Go to person page >