Pope Eugene III was born with the given name of Bernardo Paganelli in the year A.D., and died in A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 1145 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 1153 A.D., during the High Middle Ages. Eugene III was from Pisa, and his papal number is: 167 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Cistercian pope, disciple of Bernard of Clairvaux, who led the Church during the Second Crusade.
Biography:Blessed Eugene III brought a monastic spirit to the papacy at a time of civic unrest in Rome and international Christian ambition abroad. A disciple of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, he embodied the reforming and contemplative currents of the twelfth century.
He authorized the preaching of the Second Crusade and spent much of his reign away from Rome because of local instability. His pontificate united pastoral idealism with the difficult realities of medieval politics.
Eugene III is remembered as a holy pope of monastic character whose reign linked the papacy with both reform spirituality and crusading Christendom.
