Monday, February 19, 2007

The kids are off school this week for their 1/2 term break so we are going to be spending time seeing the sites close to home. This morning the kids and I went to Rievaulx Abbey, located in North Yorkshire {about 45 minutes from our house}.


The abbey was founded by St Bernard of Clairvaux, as part of the missionary effort to reform Christianity in western Europe. Just 12 Clairvaux monks came to Rievaulx in 1132. From these modest beginnings grew one of the wealthiest monasteries of medieval England and the first northern Cistercian monastery.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I remember hearing about St Bernard. He was pretty famous. How neat that you were able to see his abbey