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Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity.

Bernard of Clairvaux on life and death

On Loving God, Ch. 11, Paul Halsall trans.

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