Harding

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 555

Harding, STEPHEN, the third abbot of the celebrated monastery of Cîteaux, an Englishman by birth, who endeavoured to restore the Benedictine rule to its original simplicity. He died in 1134. See CISTERCIANS.

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