John was born near Bridlington in Yorkshire, studied at Oxford and took the habit of the canons regular there.
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John was born near Bridlington in Yorkshire, studied at Oxford and took the habit of the canons regular there.
He served as precentor, almoner and prior. He refused the office of prior the first time, but his brethren compelled him the second. Butler stresses his generosity to all in distress. The text on this page gives 1379.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 41 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
…are turned into chips of wood, in the lap of John of Bridlington they became stones. S. John studied at Oxford, and passed through the successive offices of cellarer, precentor, and prior of his monastery, and closed a life without interest
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…are turned into chips of wood, in the lap of John of Bridlington they became stones. S. John studied at Oxford, and passed through the successive offices of cellarer, precentor, and prior of his monastery, and closed a life without interest
Feast: October 21
Traditional: October 10
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From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
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From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
