by Carl McColman Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 192 pages It’s a little known fact that John Calvin was deeply influenced by Bernard of Clairvaux who in 1115 A.D. established a Benedictine monastery in France. He came from Cîteaux, from which the term Cistercian derives. Cistercians follow the sixth century rule of Saint Benedict. That fact is important to recall in the 21st century when the search for God appears in different forms.