St. Bernard of Valdeiglesias

Feastday: August 20
Death: 1155

Patron saint of Candelada, Spain. He was a monk at Valdeiglesias, possibly a Cistercian.

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Bernard of Valdeiglesias (or "of Candeleda") was a Benedictine Cistercian monk at Valdeiglesias, province of Avila, Spain.

Life

Bernard joined the Cistercians in 1177. He was sent with a group of other monks to establish a monastery at Grandassilva in Estremadura, which effort failed when the community was devastated by the plague.

He is Patron saint of Candeleda, Spain, and is invoked against rabies.