| One of six bosses on the upper floor of the building described as the 'Oratorium' built at Maulbronn in 1495 at an angle going eastwards from the east range of the cloister. Built under Abbot Johannes Burrus it is thought to have served as Lady Chapel on the ground floor and reading room on the upper floor. The other bosses featured the Virgin and Child, an angel with the abbot's coat of arms, St Gregory, St Augustine (?), and St Jerome, all in bust form within trefoils (illustrated in Knapp 1997, 161). Bernard has a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left, and between them are the arms of Clairvaux. Bernard has a 'tuft'.
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