Editing Gilbert of Sempringham (section)

{{short description|English Roman Catholic saint}}

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{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix=Saint 
|name=Gilbert of Sempringham
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|birth_date=ca. 1085
|birth_place=[[Sempringham]], Lincolnshire, [[Kingdom of England]]
|death_date=4 February 1189
|death_place=Sempringham, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England (Aged 104 or 105)
|feast_day=4 February
|venerated_in=[[Catholic Church]], [[Church of England]]
|image=SegellSempringham.jpg
|caption=Seal of the master of Sempringham, depicting St Gilbert
|beatified_date=  
|beatified_place=
|beatified_by=
|canonized_date=1202
|canonized_place=Rome
|canonized_by=[[Pope Innocent III]]
|major_shrine= 
|attributes=[[cross portate]]<ref name="seiyaku">{{cite web |title=St. Gilbert's Cross or Portate Cross |url=https://www.seiyaku.com/customs/crosses/portate.html |publisher=seiyaku.com |access-date=2006-10-29}}</ref>
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|suppressed_date=
}}
'''Gilbert of Sempringham''' (c. 1085 – 4 February 1189)<ref>Iredale (pp. 7, 54) says 1189 but this is probably according to the Old Style calendar, which began the year on Lady Day, in March. By the time England abandoned this, the discrepancies of the Julian calendar had moved it into April by modern reckoning.</ref> was an [[Catholic Church in England and Wales|English Catholic]] who founded the [[Gilbertine Order]]. He was the only medieval [[English people|Englishman]] to found a [[convent]]ual order, mainly because the [[Cîteaux Abbey]] declined his request to assist him in organising a group of [[nun]]s living with [[lay brother]]s and sisters.<ref>Iredale places this in 1147 (p. 4). Again, the difference between Old and New style calendars may account for this.</ref> He founded a [[double monastery]] of [[Canon regular|canons regular]] and nuns in spite of such a foundation being contrary to canonical practice.