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Bernard of Cluny

Bernard of Cluny or Bernard of Morlaix , fl. 1150, French Cluniac monk, of English parentage. He wrote De contemptu mundi [on contempt for the world], a poem in 3,000 hexameters. On it Horatio Parker based his oratorio Hora novissima, and from it John Mason Neale drew the words of Jerusalem the Golden.

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Bernard of Cluny (c.1100–c.1150), also called Bernard of Morlás or Morval. He was probably a Cluniac monk. His poem, De contemptu mundi, is the source of ‘Jerusalem the Golden’.

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Bernard of Morlaix (12th cent.), a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Cluny in Burgundy who wrote the Latin poem ‘De Contemptu Mundi’, c.1140. Several of his hymns were translated by J. M. Neale.

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