Doctor Mellifluus

Doctor Mellifluus Encyclical of Pope Pius XII
Signature date	24 May 1953
Number	24 of the pontificate
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Doctor Mellifluus is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII on the Doctor of the Church Bernard of Clairvaux, given at Rome, St. Peter's, on 24 May, on the feast of Pentecost, 1953, in the 15th year of his pontificate. In issuing it in anticipation of the eighth centenary of Bernard's death, Pius took the occasion to highlight Bernard's contributions to practical spirituality.