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Gilbert of Sempringham (c. 1085 – 4 February 1189) [2] was an English Catholic who founded the Gilbertine Order. He was the only medieval Englishman to found a conventual order, mainly because the Cîteaux Abbey declined his request to assist him in organising a group of nuns living with lay brothers and sisters. [ 3 ]
The church was designed by the architect William Forsyth McGibbon in a 13th-century Gothic style. [2] The hall was completed in 1894 and the church itself in 1900, as Sherbrooke United Free Church, [3] taking its name from the address on Sherbrooke Avenue, which in turn originated from the first family to make their home on the street, who had links to Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia in Canada. [4]
A parish magazine or parish bulletin, also called church bulletin, is a periodical produced by and for an ecclesiastical parish. It usually comprises a mixture of religious articles, community contributions, and parish notices, including the previous month‘s christenings, marriages, and funerals. Magazines are sold or are otherwise circulated ...
1951 William White Anderson MC (Edinburgh: St Cuthbert's) 1952 George Johnstone Jeffrey (Glasgow: Sherbrooke St Gilbert's) 1953 James Pitt-Watson (Glasgow) 1954 Ernest David Jarvis (Glasgow: Wellington) 1955 G. D. Henderson FBA (University of Aberdeen) 1956 Robert F. V. Scott (St Columba's Church, London)
St Gilbert died at Sempringham in 1189 and was buried in the priory church. He was canonised on 13 October 1202, for the many miracles noted at his tomb in the priory. His name is prefixed to the Sempringham Priory, which is known as "St Gilbert Sempringham Priory," and is a centre of pilgrimage.
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The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest.It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. [1]
Saint-Gilbert (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒilbɛʁ]) is a parish municipality in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It has the smallest population of all municipalities in Portneuf RCM (other than unorganized territories ).