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About St. Stephen Harding
c. 1060 – 1134 · Feast April 17 · Abbot / Cistercian
English Cistercian abbot (c. 1060-1134), educated at Sherborne, monk of Molesme, third abbot of the New Monastery of Cîteaux from 1109; chiefly responsible for the "Carta Caritatis" (1119) which gave the Cistercians their distinctive constitutional structure based on filiation rather than centralized authority. Received St. Bernard and his thirty companions in 1112. Canonized 1623 by Urban VIII.
St. Stephen Harding is the patron saint of Cistercians and Monastic Reformers.
