He took up the pen after the Seraphic Doctor, he tells us, to gather the ears the latter had dropped from his sheaf, lest anything of so great a memory as that of St. Francis might perish.
[1] His Liber de Laudibus Beati Francisci, composed about 1280, besides a resume of some of the earlier legends, contains brief and valuable information about the companions of St. Francis and the foundation of the three Franciscan Orders, and is the only thirteenth-century document which specifies the first biographies of St.
[1] Critical editions of both these works have been published by the Friars Minor of Quaracchi [in Analecta Franciscana, III (1897), 666–707] and by Father Hilarin Felder of Lucerne, O. M. Cap.
[1] Bernard also wrote the life of Blessed Christopher of Cahors inserted in the Chronica XXIV Generalium (ed.
Quaracchi, 1897, 161–173)[2] and is very probably the author of the Speculum Disciplinae and of the Epistola ad Quendam Novitium erroneously attributed to St. Bonaventure (See Bonav.