Richard Rolle

Richard Rolle

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nationality = English
denomination = Roman Catholic
known for = hermit, religious writer, Bible translator
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Richard Rolle (1290–1349) was an English religious writer, Bible translator, and hermit."A History of God", Karen Armstrong, p. 252] He is known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since after years of wandering he settled in his final years at Hampole, near the Cistercian nunnery.

Life

He was brought up near Pickering, and studied at the University of Oxford, supported by Thomas de Neville, [CathEncy|id=13119a|title=Richard Rolle de Hampole] leaving there at age eighteen or nineteen. He had his cell first at Pickering, and then in the North Yorkshire parish of Ainderby.

He wrote in both Latin and English; many works are attributed to him, but it has been questioned how many are genuinely from his hand. Some were printed in the sixteenth century, by Wynkyn de Worde.

In one of his best-known works, "The Fire of Love," Rolle provides an account of his mystical experiences, which he describes as being of three kinds: a physical warmth in his body, a sense of wonderful sweetness, and a heavenly music that accompanied him as he chanted the Psalms.

He was regarded as a saint after his death; but he was never canonized.

Works in print

*"English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle of Hampole," Edited by George Perry (1866)
*"English Writings of Richard Rolle Hermit of Hampole," Edited by Hope Emily Allen (1931)
*"Richard Rolle: Uncollected Prose and Verse with related Northern text", edited by Ralph Hanna for the Early English Text Society, 2007

Notes

See also

*List of Christian mystics
*Mystical theology
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*Jan Tyranowski, mentor of Pope John Paul II and modern exemplar of the way of life of Rolle.

External links

*CathEncy|id=04324b|title=Contemplation|short=yes (on Contemplative Prayer)
* [http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/129/O_Wonderful_Banquet__St._Thomas_Aquinas_on_the_Feast_of_Corpus_Christi.html Thomas Aquinas on the Communion of God with Humanity]
* [http://www.karmel.at/ics/edith/stein_9.html Contemplative spirituality in the tradition of the medieval hermits who settled on Mount Carmel.]


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