| 1525. Scene of Bernard on his deathbed accompanied by four of his monks, two of them reciting the Office of the Dead from their open books while the two others are bending down over Bernard and, according to the scroll, asking: 'Numquid non misereris huic Monasterii, Pater?' (O Father, will you please have mercy on this monastery?), to which Bernard replies: 'Quid eligam ignoro coarector autem e duolus: disiderium habens dissolvi et esse cum christo multo magis melius permanere autem in Carne necessarium propte vos' (I do not know what I shall choose. It is a hard choice. I would like to leave and be with Christ which would be better, but it is necessary to remain in the flesh in order to stay with you).
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