Today we commemorate two heroes of the Christian faith who died on this day August 20, one in the year 1153 and one in 1965. Bernard was born in 1090. He would become a Benedictine abbot who led a renewal of monasticism, from which the Order of Cistercians developed.[1] We also remember the life and witness of an Episcopal seminarian, Jonathan Myrick Daniels, who was born in on March 20, 1939, in Keene, New Hampshire, where he grew up. He is buried there in a grave that he shares with his parents with these words, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”[2]
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