Robert Bale (monk)
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:
- Annales Ordinis Carmelitarum (Bod. Arch. Seld. B. 72).
- Historia Heliæ Prophetæ
- 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).
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