His brother appointed him cellarer and Gerard managed the domestic affairs of abbey. William encounters Salvatore, a demented hunchback, and his protector, Remigio da Varagine, the cellarer. Cellarius is the Latin form of cellarer, an office within a medieval Benedictine abbey. The chief officers were the prior, sub-prior, cellarer, precentor, and sacrist. Gerard of Clairvaux, Bernard's older brother, became the cellarer of Citeaux. Born near Rostov, he was the cellarer at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra from 1606 to 1613. Officers within the abbey included a cellarer, bursar, chamberlain, sacrist, kitchener and an infirmer. The canons unanimously chose Thomas Sudborne alias Manning, the priory's Cellarer, to succeed him.