Pictures associate the memories of one long ago canonized Saint, Robert of Newminster, and the all too vivid recalling the assassination of the Seven Atlas martyrs.
Parishioners from St. Robert of Newminster being on an outing.
They were reminding us of the 850th Anniversary of Saint Robert on the 7th June.
This occasion is being celebrated by the Diocese of Hexham and
Details from OCSO MENOLOGY
JUNE 7
St Robert of Newminster + 1159
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Seven years later he founded New Minster near Morpeth, Northumberland and became its first abbot. Under his administration, the house prospered so much that it was able to establish three daughter-houses: Pipewell, Roche and Sawley.
Robert wrote a commentary on the Psalms and a book of meditations no longer extant. He "was strict with himself, kind and merciful to others, learned and yet simple."
(MBS, p. 162; NCE, vol. 12, p. 534).