Robert Bale (monk)

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Robert Bale, O.Carm., (died 1503), was an English Carmelite friar and scholar.

Biography

Bale was a native of Norfolk, and when very young entered the Carmelite monastery at Norwich. Having a great love of learning, he spent a portion of every year in the Carmelite priories at Oxford or Cambridge. He became prior of the monastery of his order at Burnham Norton,.[1]

Bale enjoyed a high reputation for learning, and collected a valuable library, which he bequeathed to his priory upon his death on 11 November 1503.

His principal works were:

  1. Annales Ordinis Carmelitarum (Bod. Arch. Seld. B. 72).
  2. Historia Heliæ Prophetæ
  3. Officium Simonis Angli (i.e. of St. Simon Stock, the first English Carmelite friar and a major figure in the establishment of the Carmelite Order).

References

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Attribution

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