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Born: 1091, in his father’s castle at Les Fontaines (near Dijon), Burgundy.
Died: August 21, 1153, Clairvaux, France.


Bernard’s father Tecelin was a knight and vassal of the Duke of Burgundy. Bernard was educated at Chatillon, where he was distinguished by his studious and meditative habits. He entered the monastery of Citeaux (the first Cistercian institution) in 1113. Two years later, he was sent, with 12 other monks, to found a daughter monastery in the Valley of Wormwood, about four miles from the Abbey of La Ferté, on the Aube. He rose to eminence in Church politics, and became embroiled in the papal schisms of the 12th Century. He was well known in Rome, and founded 163 monasteries throughout Europe. The Catholic Encyclopedia carries a large article on him.

Bernard was a man of exceptional piety and spiritual vitality. Martin Luther, 400 years later, called him, “the best monk that ever lived, whom I admire beyond all the rest put together.”


Hymns

Jesu dulcis memoria
Jesu! The Very Thought is Sweet!
Jesu, Thy Mercies Are Untold
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts
O Hope of Every Contrite Heart
O Jesus, King Most Wonderful
Of Him Who Did Salvation Bring
Salve caput cruentatum
O Glavo Puna Rana
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Roi Couvert de Blessures
Wide Open Are Thy Hands


Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/e/r/bernard_c.html

Born: October 29, 1869, Hastings, Michigan.

Died: October 19, 1952, Eola, Louisiana.

After graduating from high school in Lansing, Michigan, Sellers was apprenticed to a surveyor and civil engineer, and eventually became city engineer and superintendent of public works. In 1895, he became a student at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. From 1901 to 1905, he was YMCA secretary in Macon, Georgia; Washington, DC; and Wilmington, Delaware. He then was appointed director of men’s work and assistant pastor at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio (1905-07); and assistant director of the Music Department and professor of Sunday school pedagogy at the Moody Bible Institute (1908-19). He worked for the YMCA Speakers Bureau in France and Germany during World War I. After the war, he was appointed director of the Music Department of the Baptist Bible Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary named the E. O. Sellers Music Building after him. In 1926, he helped compile The New Baptist Hymnal. His other works include:

* Personal Evangelism, 1923
* How to Improve Church Music, 1928
* Elements of Music Notation and Conducting, 1938
* Worship, Why and How, 1941

Sources

* Reynolds, pp. 402-3

Hymns

1. Open Our Eyes, Thy Glory Beholding (© 1940)
2. Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart

Music

1. Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/e/sellers_eo.html

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