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Robert of Newminster (c. 1100 –1159) was a priest, abbot, and a saint of the Catholic Church. He was born in Gargrave in Yorkshire , England. He was one of the monks who founded Fountains Abbey and is named from the abbey he founded in Morpeth , Northumberland.
Facts. Robert Of Newminster, Saint, Abbot, (Benedictine) Cistercians (1100-1159) A priest from North Yorkshire who took the Benedictine habit at Whitby and obtained permission to join some monks of York who were attempting to live according to a new interpretation of the Benedictine rule at Fountains abbey (1132).
Catholicism. Saints. St. Robert of Newminster. He was a native of Yorkshire, and even in his childhood an enemy to the usual amusements of that age, loving only prayer, serious reading, and useful and pious employments.
The Story and History of Saint Robert of Newminster The story and history of Saint Robert of Newminster. In 1132 Robert was a monk at Whitby, England, when news arrived that thirteen religious had been violently expelled from the Abbey of St. Mary, in York, for having proposed to restore the strict Benedictine rule.
Saint Robert of Newminster. Feast Day: June 7. Death: June 7, 1159. Saint Robert of Newminster, also known as Robert of Morpeth, was born around the year 1100 in Gargrave, a village in the Craven district of Yorkshire county, England.
Death: 1159. Author and Publisher - Catholic Online. Printable Catholic Saints PDFs. Shop St. Robert of Newmister. Cistercian abbot. Born in Yorkshire, England, he entered the Benedictines at Whitby and soon joined the monks at Fountains Abbey who were adopting the harder rule which was gaining prominence at the time.
St. Robert of Newminster. Catholic Online. Catholic Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Volume. Free World Class Education. FREE Catholic Classes. Born in the district of Craven, Yorkshire, probably at the village of Gargrave; died 7 June, 1159.
