He was an English priest from Yorkshire, in England, who became a Cistercian monk, and was made the first abbot of the famous Abbey of Newminster, founded in 1137. He was a great friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and of Saint Norbert. He made many prophecies and worked many miracles.
Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary, former Cistercian abbey church, Baumgartenberg Abbey, Upper Austria: Relief of St. Robert of Newminster on the pulpit. (Photo cropped from original.) Photo credits: BSonne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
