<sod>[[Bernard of Clairvaux]] was one of the most influential churchmen of his time. In the "Sermon on the Sunday in the Octave of the Assumption" he described Mary's participation in redemption.<ref>[https://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/b16ChrstChrch93.htm Pope Benedict XVI. "General Audience", 21 October 2009, ''L'Osservatore Romano'', 28 October 2009, p. 24]</ref> Bernard's ''Praises on the Virgin Mother" was a small but complete treatise on Mariology.<ref name=Duignan>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5HoJ77q1TN8C&pg=PA63&dq=Mariology+of+Bernard+of+Clairvaux&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw7eWIyvvLAhVM1xoKHXufA7s4MhDoAQhLMAk#v=onepage&q=Mariology%20of%20Bernard%20of%20Clairvaux&f=false Duignan, Brian. ''Medieval Philosophy'', The Rosen Publishing Group, 2011, ISBN 9781615301430]</ref> [[Pope Pius XII]]'s 1953 encyclical ''[[Doctor Mellifluus]]'', issued in commemoration of the eighth centenary of Bernard's death, quotes extensively from Bernard's sermon on Mary as "[[Our Lady, Star of the Sea]]".<ref>Hom. II super "Missus est," 17; Migne, P. L., CLXXXIII, 70-b, c, d, 71-a. Quoted in [[Doctor Mellifluus]] 31</ref></blockquote/><eod>
<sod>[[Bernard of Clairvaux]] was one of the most influential churchmen of his time. In the "Sermon on the Sunday in the Octave of the Assumption" he described Mary's participation in redemption.<ref>[https://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/b16ChrstChrch93.htm Pope Benedict XVI. "General Audience", 21 October 2009, ''L'Osservatore Romano'', 28 October 2009, p. 24]</ref> Bernard's ''Praises on the Virgin Mother'' was a small but complete treatise on Mariology.<ref name=Duignan>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5HoJ77q1TN8C&pg=PA63&dq=Mariology+of+Bernard+of+Clairvaux&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw7eWIyvvLAhVM1xoKHXufA7s4MhDoAQhLMAk#v=onepage&q=Mariology%20of%20Bernard%20of%20Clairvaux&f=false Duignan, Brian. ''Medieval Philosophy'', The Rosen Publishing Group, 2011, ISBN 9781615301430]</ref> [[Pope Pius XII]]'s 1953 encyclical ''[[Doctor Mellifluus]]'', issued in commemoration of the eighth centenary of Bernard's death, quotes extensively from Bernard's sermon on Mary as "[[Our Lady, Star of the Sea]]".<ref>Hom. II super "Missus est," 17; Migne, P. L., CLXXXIII, 70-b, c, d, 71-a. Quoted in [[Doctor Mellifluus]] 31</ref></blockquote/><eod>