Identifier: greaterabbeysofe01gasq (find matches)
Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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speciallynoted for the holiness of his life; and in one list of theearly Cistercians he is even called by the name of the Blessed William. Abbot William was succeeded in1150 by his more celebrated disciple, St. -Spired, one ofthe first Englishmen to join the community after its com-ing to settle at Rievaulx. Very early in his religiouscareer iElred was appointed to take charge of the novices,and later was sent out in charge of a colony from Rie-vaulx which was to establish itself at Revesby or Rewesby,in Lincolnshire. iElred was a writer of considerable re-pute, both as an historian and as a master of the spirituallife. The history of The Battle of the Standard isknown only through his description, and the GenealogiaRegum Anglorum was composed to instruct PrinceHenry, afterwards King Henry II, in the history of theSaxon Kings. St. iElred suffered all his life from ill-health, and for years before he died he was hardly everfree from pain. One picture we get of him whilst Abbot ( 222 )
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RIEVAULX of Rievaulx, a short time before his death, is that of amonk wrapped in a cloak, sitting on a mat spread on thefloor before the fire. He is racked with pain, and sodoubled up that his head rests almost between his knees. Besides Revesby, of which mention has already beenmade, Rievaulx established the more celebrated house ofMelrose, in Scotland. It is said that it was the beautyof the life led at Rievaulx that induced some of the monksof St. Marys, York, to yearn for the same and to leavetheir own cloister for Fountains in search for it. The church is 343 feet long, and on account of the situ-ation of the ground between the steep hill and the riverRie, it has been set north and south. The choir and chan-cel occupy seven bays; the nave is 166 feet long and thecrossing arch 70 feet high. The transepts are partlyNorman, the upper portion being Early English. Therefectory, built over some cellarage, shows the remainsof a reading pulpit, and there are vestiges more or lessdistinct

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