| One of four scenes from the life of Bernard from the carved stone altarpiece from 1348 in the Church of St Mary in Montblanch dedicated to St Barnabas and St Bernard featuring four scenes of each flanking the two carved standing figures of the two saints. Above on the right Bernard is seen kneeling at an altar with a canopy above against a red background. He turns round and sees a vision of a gold-nimbed Christ on a cloud and with the initials IHS in gold above. Christ is assuring Bernard that his friend Malachy is a saint as a result of which Bernard changes the collect read for a departed brother to that of a saint bishop. The background is decorated with gold stars. By the English sculptor Reinard Fonnell who also did the carvings in the cloister of the Cistercian Santes Creus. See also SC39 & SC41-3. The same scene is depicted on PA013.
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