Rievaulx Abbey
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Rievaulx Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, near Helmsley, in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. It was one of the great abbeys in England until it was seized in 1538
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Rievaulx Abbey viewed from Rievaulx Terrace (NT)
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Aelred of Rievaulx
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Aelred of Rievaulx, also known as Ailred, Ælred, or Æthelred; was an English Cistercian monk and writer who served as Abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his death. He is venerated by the Catholic Churc
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…unprofitable wasteland on one of his inherited estates. William I, the first abbot of Rievaulx, started construction in the 1130s. The second abbot, Saint Aelred of Rievaulx, expanded the buildings and otherwise consolidated the existence of what in time became one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, with Fountains…
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The ruins of Rievaulx Abbey on the River Rye in North Yorkshire
Depiction of Saint Aelred (or Ailred; Latin: Sanctus Aelredus Riaevallensis), from St. John Cardinal Henry Newman's 1845 "Lives of the English Saints"
Aelred's Life of Edward the Confessor, a late-12th-century illuminated manuscript in the British Library