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. The ''Vita Sancti Geraldi'' was written by one Bernard, a companion and fellow Cluniac monk from France.Vita Sancti Geraldi." ''Portuguese Studies''">Lay, Stephen. "Sanctity and Social Alienation in Twelfth-Century Braga as Portrayed in the Vita Sancti Geraldi." ''Portuguese Studies''
vol. 31, no. 2, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015, pp. 153–68 He later worked with the archbishop of Toledo, in Castile, and served as cathedral choir director. He baptised

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. He later became the reforming Bishop of Braga,

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on July 3, 1095, and stopped ecclesiastical investiture by laymen in his diocese. He died on December 5, 1109, and was buried in

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