Blessed Richard Rolle
- Also known as
- Richard Rolle de Hampole
- Memorial
- 29 September
- Profile
- An excellent student all his life, he was educated at Oxford.
Studied in Paris, France from 1320 to 1326.
Returning to England, he lived as a hermit on his family's estate.
Some family members threatened to have him committed, and he moved to the estate of his friend and college classmate John Dalton of Pickering in 1326.
Visionary and mystic.
After several years of prayerful solitude he began wandering England.
Spiritual director for a community of Cistercian nuns at Hampole.
Noted spiritual writer.
- Born
- c.1300 at Thornton, Yorkshire, England
- Died
- 29 September 1349 at Hampole, England of natural causes;
miracles reported at his tomb
- Additional Information
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Columbia Encyclopedia
Catholic Online
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Edwin Burton
- Works
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De Incendio Amoris (The Fire of Love)
Pricke of Conscience
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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