In Praise of the Virgin Mary, the God-Bearer

2026 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Spirituality ClassicalTranslated here in its entirety for the first time, Alan of Lille'sElucidatio in Cantica Canticorumprovides a measure for the originality of his Mariology. Fifty years after the death of Bernard of Clairvaux, Alan of Lille died in 1202 or 1203 among the Cistercians at Citeaux. Celebrated in his own time as doctor universalis,...