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Gerard de Baere, a native of
Laarne Laarne () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of and Laarne proper. On 1 January 2018, Laarne had a total population of 12,487. The total area is 32.07 km². The current m ...
, was the 43rd abbot of
Ten Duinen Abbey Ten Duinen Abbey or the Abbey of the Dunes ( nl, Abdij Ten Duinen) was a Cistercian monastery at Koksijde in what is now Belgium. It was one of the richest and most influential religious institutions in the medieval County of Flanders. It later re ...
in
Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city a ...
from 1653 to 1666.


Life

De Baere was professed as a monk in 1631. He was ordained subdeacon on 10 April 1632,
deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Chur ...
on 21 May 1633, and
priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
on 24 September 1633. A plan to have him nominated
Bishop of Bruges The Diocese of Bruges (in Dutch Bisdom Brugge) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, which ...
failed to pan out. On 11 May 1666 he granted permission for a chapel with portable altar to be built on the former site of Oosteeklo Abbey. He died in Bruges on 26 October 1666.''Chronique et cartulaire de l'abbaye de Hemelsdaele'' (Bruges, 1858), p. 42.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baere, Gerard 1608 births 1666 deaths Abbots of Dunes Clergy of the Spanish Netherlands People from Laarne