I just finished a book on the relationship of the Cistercians to the Templars, and their common origins with the “SALT-line” families.

It did seem to treat the subject with a minimum of bias against catholicism, and there does seem to be some merit in what they propse of the link of the Cistercians to the diaspora of the myceneans as the result of Santorini?

It would be interesting to have your views, on the origins of the Cistercians> The book contents that St. Bernard was from one of these SALT LINE families?