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St Robert of Newminster Catholic School in Washington, Tyne and Wear is named after him. St. Robert School in Sacramento, CA is also named after him. There is a St Robert of Newminster Parish and Primary School in Aberkenfig, Bridgend South Wales. St. Robert Catholic School in Ada, MI, is a brand new Catholic school, that opened in August 2018.
- 7 June
- Roman Catholic Church
- depicted as an abbot holding a church
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). Fountains soon became Cistercian and ...
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. Little is known about his early life and education, but it is believed that he studied at the prestigious University of Paris. Robert's religious vocation led him to become a parish priest at Gargrave and later a Benedictine monk ...
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. Having finished his studies, he was ordained priest, and instituted to a rectorship of a parish in the diocese of York; but after discharging that ...
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About 1138 he headed the first colony sent out from Fountains and established the Abbey of Newminster near the castle of Ralph de Merlay, at Morpeth in Northumberland. During his abbacy three colonies of monks were sent out; monasteries were founded: Pipewell (1143), Roche (1147) and Sawley (1148).
Jun 7, 2023 · St. Robert of Newminster (Abbot) Today's Saint. June 7, 2023. St. Robert of Newminster (Abbot) St. Robert was born at Gargrave, England, at the beginning of the 12th century. He studied at the University of Paris, was ordained a priest, and served as a parish priest in his native town. Later, he became a Benedictine and joined a band of monks ...
Newminster, June 7, 1159. After studies in Paris he returned to England and was active as a secular priest, then as a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of whitby. In 1132 Robert joined the cister cians, participated in the foundation of the Abbey of fountains, and in 1139 founded and became the first abbot of Newminster, near Morpeth, Northumberland.
