The legend of Saint Bernard of Menthon
Bernard de Menthon – Fondateur de l’hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard Au milieu du dixième siècle, the son of the lord of Menthon manifested, from his earliest years, a compelling purpose for the ascetic life. His parents were keen to perpetuate a race of valiant, so old that it had taken for: «Ante Christum natum, jam baro natus […]