Feast day: April 17
St. Stephen Harding
An English monk and co-founder of the Cistercian reform whose 'Charter of Charity' gave the new order its constitution, and who welcomed the young Bernard of Clairvaux.
His simple constitution for the struggling new monastery of Cîteaux became the blueprint that spread the Cistercians across all of Europe.
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