Tradition Magazine, Issue Eight: Pride
Part One: Degrees of Pride
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Of Pride and Its Cure
About the text: St. John Cassian (c. 360–435) gave up the wealth he enjoyed in his youth to become a monk first in Bethlehem, then Egypt, and finally in Marseille. During his time in Egypt, he gathered together the sayings of many desert fathers into a collection known as the
The Twelve Degrees of Pride
About the Author: Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was one of the earliest members of the Cistercian Order—an attempt at reforming the Benedictines by returning to the Rule of St. Benedict—and certainly its most famous. A skilled preacher and perhaps even a mystic, Bernard’s constant scriptural language and imagery has gained for him the title “last of …