ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 15th of May RICHARD, ABBOT OF FOUNTAINS Richard, an Englishman, left the Benedictine Order to join the Cistercians under Saint Bernard. As is related by Lechner (Martyrol. p. 193), he consecrated himself to the Lord in the monastery of the Blessed Virgin in York, whose prior he later became. After entering the Cistercian order, he obtained from Archbishop Thurston the site of Fountain (de Fontanis) near Ripon to found a monastery and initially lived there with his brothers between mountains and stone cliffs under the open sky. He died at Rome A.D. 1140. In Elenchus his name is mentioned on November 18 (III. 440.) (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 🎨 Fountains Abbey by Bernard Walter Evans [1843 - 1922]) *** FOUNTAINS ABBEY A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half miles from Ripon in Yorkshire, was established by thirteen Be...