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SUMMARY:Blessed Humbeline
DESCRIPTION:BLESSED HUMBELINE\nFrom the Life of St Bernard 2\n◊◊◊\nFrom earliest childhood Humbeline and Bernard had been drawn together\nby a special bond of affection and sympathy\, due to identity of interests and tastes.\nAfter her marriage\, forgetful of her mother’s example and exhortations\, she began\nto follow the fashions of the world. In 1117 she came to Clairvaux surrounded with\nall the splendor of dress and attendants that unlimited wealth could bestow\,\nthinking\, so it seems\, that she was doing her brother honor. Her brother Andrew\,\nthe porter\, in announcing her arrival\, did not omit to describe to his Abbot the\npomp and ceremony that attended her. It grieved Bernard to hear that his beloved\nsister had become a worshipper at the shrine of vanity. He refused to see her\nhimself\, nor would he allow any of his brothers to see her\, but told Andrew to tell\nher from him that with these worldly ornaments she was making herself the devil’s\ninstrument for the ruin of immortal souls. Andrew delivered the message\, adding\non his own: “Why so much solicitude to embellish a body destined for worms and\nrottenness\, while the soul that now animates it is burning in everlasting flames?” \nHumbeline burst into tears\, crying out: “I deserve it all because I am a\nsinner. Yet it is for such as I that Christ suffered on the Cross. Indeed it is because\nof my sinfulness that I seek counsel and encouragement from the saints. If my\nbrother Bernard\, who is the servant of God\, despises my body\, let him at least have\npity on my soul. Let him come; let him command; and whatever he thinks proper\nto enjoin I am prepared to carry out.” \nThere was no resisting such an appeal. Bernard and his brothers hastened\nto meet her and to confirm her in these good dispositions. It was the holy Abbot’s\ndesire that she should enter religion; but as this was unlawful without her\nhusband’s consent\, he recommended her to live as much as possible like a recluse\nin the world\, shunning ostentation and all kinds of vanity\, and devoting herself\,\nafter her mother’s example\, to the service of God and the poor. She promised to do\nso. \nFive years later\, in 1122\, having obtained after much resistance her\nhusband’s consent\, she left the world altogether and entered the convent of Jully\nwhere Elizabeth\, her sister-in-law was superioress. When the latter went forth\nabout 1130 to found a new convent in the neighborhood of Dijon\, Humbeline was\nappointed to succeed her. Under her direction the house flourished greatly; the\nnoblest ladies of the land sought admission in such numbers that she was forced\nto make about a dozen new foundations. She rivaled Bernard himself in her love of\nthe Cross. Of food and sleep she allowed herself much less than the minimum\nwhich nature demands; her clothes were the meanest she could find\, and it was her\nhappiness to be employed in the humblest occupations. When her nuns begged her\nto be more careful of her health\, which seemed in danger of breaking down under\nsuch austere practices\, she replied: “For you\, my dear sisters\, whose lives have been\nconsecrated to the service of God\, this is an excellent counsel. But for me\, who have\nlived so long amidst worldly vanities\, no kind of penance can be excessive.”…\nHer last hours were consoled by the presence of three of her brothers\,\nBernard\, Andrew and Nivard… When about to breathe her last she looked with a\nradiant smile at Bernard and said: “Oh\, how happy I am to have followed your\ncounsel and consecrated myself to God! And what a beautiful reward I expect to\nreceive for the love I have entertained for you in this life! It is to that love that I\nowe the joy and glory awaiting me in the homeland.” Then turning to the others\nshe cried out: “I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: we shall go into the\nhouse of the Lord.” With these words\, she gave up her spirit. \n2 Life and Teaching of St Bernard by Ailbe J. Luddy\, O. Cist.\, pg. 68-69\, M.H. Gill & Son\, Dublin\, 1937.
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