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- ↑ Patrologia Latina , CLXXXII, 832 sqq.
- ↑ P.L. CLXXII, 67 sqq.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXV, 225 sqq.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXV, 523 sqq.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXV, 410 sqq.
- ↑ In P.L., CLXXXV, 395 sqq.; this description and the parts in the life of St. Bernard relating to Germany were edited also by Waitz, in Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script., XXVI, 109-20, 133-37.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXV, 573 sqq.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXIV, 437 sqq.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXV, 595 sqq.
- ↑ P.L., CLXXXV, 587 sqq.
- ↑ Published in Acta Sanctorum , May, II, 330 sqq.
- ↑ Baronius, Annales Ecclesiastici ad. an. 1188, n. 27
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Geoffrey of Clairvaux". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
