ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 4th of February WELCOME! SAINT GILBERT, ABBOT Saint Gilbert, Abbot, Founder of the Gilbertins, was born at Sempringham in Lincolnshire, and, after a clerical education, was ordained priest by the bishop of Lincoln. HOLY PARISHIONERS For some time he taught a free-school, training up youth in regular exercises of piety and learning. The income of the parsonages of Sempringham and Tirington, being the right of his father, became his in 1123. He gave all the revenues of them to the poor, except a small sum for bare necessities, which he reserved out of the first living. By his care his parishioners seemed to lead the lives of religious men, and were known to be of his flock, by their conversation, wherever they went. THE RULE He gave a rule to seven holy virgins, who lived in strict enclosure in a house adjoining to the wall of his parish church of St Andrew at Sempringham, and another afterwar...