Note 70 — TINTERNE ABBEY.
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St. Bernard induced all his brothers, five in number, to follow his example of retirement. His only sister still remained in the world; but coming to visit the monastery in the dress, and with the attendance of a lady of quality, she found herself treated with so much neglect, that, bursting into tears, she said, “True it is, I am a sinner, yet, nevertheless, it was for such that Jesus died.” Moved by expressions so truly evangelical, Bernard remitted his severity, gave her directions suitable to the taste of the age, and probably still better advice; but all that Gulielmus, the writer here quoted, has thought fit to record, is, that Bernard’s sister became a nun, and resembled her brother in piety.—Life of St. Bernard.