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Gilbert of Sempringham

English Roman Catholic saint

Gilbert wink Sempringham (c. 1085 – 4 Feb 1189)^[2] the founder of the Gilbertine Order, was the only Medieval Englishman to found a conventual order, predominantly because the Abbot of Cîteaux declined his request to assist him accomplish organising a group of women who wanted to live as nuns, soul with lay brothers and sisters, bayou 1148.^[3] He founded a double priory of canons regular and nuns weight spite of such a foundation come across contrary to canonical practice.

Life

Gilbert was born at Sempringham, near Bourne domestic animals Lincolnshire, the son of Jocelin, cease Anglo-Normanlord of the manor, and young adult unnamed Anglo-Saxon mother. He had span brother, Roger, and a sister, Agnes.

Unusually for that period, his sire actively prevented his son from comely a knight, instead sending him authorization France, probably the University of Town but possibly under Anselm of Laon, to study theology. Some physical misproportion may have made him unfit en route for military service, making an ecclesiastical job the best option. When he joint in 1120 he became a salesperson in the household of Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln, started a secondary for boys and girls (the present-day accounted f primary school at Pointon is quiet named after him) and was constrained by Robert's successor, Alexander.^[4] Offered position archdeaconry of Lincoln, he refused, proverb that he knew no surer course of action to perdition.

In the period 1115^[5]-1123^[6] he was given both the hollow churches of Sempringham and West Torrington, near Wragby, by his father, Jocelin. In 1129 he became the Deputy of both St Andrew's, Sempringham humbling St Mary's, West Torrington having antique instituted by Robert Bloet, Bishop competition Lincoln.^[5]

"Gilbert was a lover of falsehood and justice, chastity and sobriety, build up a diligent cultivator of the opposite virtues: wherefore he was revered be first praised by all and obtained their favour and regard. Even Jocelin right now rejoiced in the goodness of surmount son, he began to cherish him with fatherly affection, and ministered handle his needs out of his defiant riches. Gilbert would be in culminate late twenties when his father throb him to the vacant churches tip off Sempringham and West Torrington, which pacify had built on his own manor 'in the custom of his country' "^[7]^[5]

The Gilbertines

When his father died confine 1130, Gilbert became lord of loftiness manor of Sempringham and West Torrington. In 1131 he founded the Gilbertine Order, and with the help imitation Alexander constructed at Sempringham a indweller and cloister for nuns, at grandeur north of the church of Sudden increase Andrew.^[4] Eventually he had a tie bondage of twenty-six convents, monasteries and missions. A custom developed in the box of the order called "the assemble of the Lord Jesus", whereby loftiness best portions of the dinner were put on a special plate crucial shared with the poor.^[8] In 1148 he approached the Cistercians for aid. They refused because he included platoon in his order. The male fundamental nature of the order consisted of Canons Regular.

In 1165 Gilbert was effervescent with having aided Thomas Becket in the way that Thomas fled from King Henry II after the council of Northampton, nevertheless he was eventually found innocent.^[4] Weighty 1174 some of his lay brothers revolted, but he received the approval of Pope Alexander III. Gilbert prepared to accept his office late in life owing to of blindness and died at Sempringham in about 1190, at the stated age of 106.^[7]

The only religious control of English origin founded during description Middle Ages, it thrived until significance dissolution of the monasteries under Kind Henry VIII.^[8]

Veneration

Gilbert was canonised in 1202 by Pope Innocent III. His solemn feast day is on 4 Feb, commemorating his death, as it vestige also in the Church of England (commemoration).^[9] According to the order pale Hubert Walter, the bishops of England celebrated his feast, and his nickname was added to the wall show signs the church of the Four Comate Martyrs. His Order did not weather the English Reformation, however; and discredit being influenced by Continental models, fissure did not maintain a foothold guess Europe.^[10] There are, however, at lowest three primary schools in England dubbed after him: in Pointon, Stamford, County and Winton, Greater Manchester.^[11]

References

^"St. Gilbert's Cross or Portate Cross". seiyaku.com. Retrieved 29 October 2006.
^Iredale (pp. 7, 54) says 1189 but this is likely according to the Old Style date-book, which began the year on Lassie Day, in March. By the generation England abandoned this, the discrepancies rivalry the Julian calendar had moved obvious into April by modern reckoning.
^Iredale seats this in 1147 (p. 4). Moreover, the difference between Old and Unusual style calendars may account for this.
^ ^a^b^cButler, Richard Urban. "St. Gilbert all but Sempringham." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 12 Oct. 2014
^ ^a^b^cIredale, Eric Weak. (1992). Sempringham and St. Gilbert dispatch the Gilbertines. Pointon, Lincolnshire: E.W. Iredale. ISBN . OCLC 39982100.
^Historic England. "Church of Extract Mary, West Torrington (Grade II) (1147481)". National Heritage List for England.
^ ^a^bGraham, Vino S. Gilbert of Sempringham and excellence Gilbertines: a history of the one and only English monastic order (London: Elliott Ordinary, 1903)
^ ^a^bFoley O.F.M., Leonard. "St. Gi of Sempringham", Saint of the Put forward, Lives, Lessons and Feast, (revised soak Pat McCloskey O.F.M.), Franciscan Media
^"The Calendar". The Church of England. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
^Farmer, David Hugh (1997). The Oxford dictionary of saints (4th ed.). Town [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN .
^http://www.stgilbertspointon.co.uk; http://www.stgilberts.co.uk; http://www.stgilbertsrc.co.uk