Achard of Clairvaux
French architect
Feast: 15 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Cistercian menology remembers on 15 September a Bd Achard who was master of novices at Clairvaux and whom St Bernard used in founding new monasteries.
Butler describes him as a man of more than ordinary virtue and ability, and says he died about 1170.
The miracles
The source does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A master of novices at Clairvaux in the time of St Bernard.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. III - 15 September
- Wikidata Q9138829 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.