| Fresco from the beginning of the fourteenth century showing a bearded Bernard in alb, chasuble, stole, and maniple holding up the Host to the Duke of Aquitaine who, having dismounted his white horse, lies prostrate on the ground before Bernard. Bernard is accompanied by a small Cistercian monk behind him. It is part of a cycle of St William of Malavalla, founder of the Guilelmite Order of Hermits in one of whose churches this is. Bernard was considered to have been responsible for his conversion, but he was not the same as the Duke of Aquitaine of the same name who had originally opposed Innocent II in the papal schism until his conversion by Bernard. The identity of the two was commonly confused. See also WA29.
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