“Do you know that here Aleth, the mother of Saint Bernard, had a dream? She dreamed that she was carrying a little dog in her bosom! » On the heights of Fontaine-lès-Dijon (Côte-d’Or), Don Guillaume Chevallier, priest of the Saint-Bernard parish and of Fontaine-lès-Dijon, is organizing a visit to the birthplace of this great saint of the Middle Ages at the end of the day. “Taking advice on the meaning of this dream, he was told that his child would bark against the enemies of God and the Church,” he continues. In a green setting, at the top of a hill overlooking the city of Dijon, stands a large neo-Gothic building little known to the general public: the birthplace and childhood of Bernard known as “de Clairvaux”, a saint and doctor of the Church.
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