ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 7th of June WELCOME! SAINT ROBERT OF NEWMINSTER, ABBOT (Abbot of Newminster, in England, of the Cistercian Order.) Saint Robert was a native of Yorkshire, and even in his childhood an enemy to the usual amusements of that age, loving only prayer, serious reading, and useful and pious employments. Having finished his studies, he was ordained priest, and instituted to a rectorship of a parish in the diocese of York; but after discharging that office sometime with great assiduity and zeal, he resigned that living, and took the religious habit in the Benedictine monastery of our Lady in York. THEY FOUNDED THE FAMOUS ABBEY Richard, the prior of this house, and twelve others, desiring to serve God according to the primitive institute of the Benedictine Order, left the monastery, with leave of the abbot, and endeavouring to execute their project, struggled with incredible hardships; till Thurstan the pious archbishop of ...